Leading a Literacy-Focused School
On completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the needs of striving readers and your role in working with your colleagues to meet these needs.
- Use literacy assessments, student data and teacher input to lead a school-wide literacy improvement initiative.
- Design and implement school-wide professional development that changes practices in every classroom.
- Understand effective literacy strategies and build school capacity to improve student achievement in literacy and in content-area classes.
- Monitor literacy coaches and teachers effectively, using literacy walks, teacher study groups, classroom observations and conferences with teachers.
- Provide effective, intensive intervention for striving readers.
- Create a strategic action plan to promote a culture of literacy in your school.
- Work collaboratively with literacy coaches, teachers, media specialists, other administrators and parents to raise reading levels and achievement for all students in your school.
