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 The
Literacy Lens™
Literacy
Review TeamHow
Schools & Districts Use the Results
Custom Options
- focused
- snapshot
- duplicate
- wide angle
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What |
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a
research-based review
and analysis
of the literacy
environment, |
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Testimonial |
practices, processes,
and policies in
a
school or
corporation. |
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"THE
LITERACY LENS review |
Why |
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has
provided
considerable |
to help educators
identify
literacy
environment gaps and strengths in |
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validation
as well as informed |
order to define steps
for improving and
enriching the literacy
environment |
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direction
to guide our continuous |
and practices
to improve
reading and learning |
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improvement
efforts regarding |
Data Collection
Process |
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literacy
instruction and program |
a
multi-faceted descriptive
research process is used
for data collection |
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planning." |
Final Review &
Reporting |
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A final report and
presentation is made to
corporation
literacy leaders. |
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Diane Lee Scott |
The final report is a
working tool which has identified
areas of strength |
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Director of Curriculum |
and
literacy gaps and
enables administrators
and teaching staff to
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Lebanon Community
Schools |
define
measurable
steps toward improving the literacy
environment and |
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practices
in the school
or
corporation. |
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Professional Fee
Structure |
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dependent upon size,
including students,
teachers, and buildings,
of |
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school
or district |
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How Schools and
Districts Use the Results |
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Align
curriculum horizontally (across grade
levels) and vertically (between grade
levels)
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Reallocate
resources - both personnel and budgetary
dollars
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Clearly define
staff roles - e.g., literacy coaches
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Develop and
strengthen classroom libraries
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Select
curriculum based on literacy framework
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Develop
corporation or schoolwide literacy framework
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Define topics
for job-embedded professional development
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Strengthen
classroom and hallway literacy environment
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Develop
classroom libraries
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Literacy Review Team |
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Kimberly Tyson,
Ph.D.
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earned
doctorate from the University of
Missouri-Kansas City in Reading Education
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teaching
experience ranging from K - college level
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listed in
Who's Who of America's Teachers and
Educators, 2007 edition
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has worked
with over 50 schools and corporations in
Indiana and nationally
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has worked
with over 50 schools and corporations in
Indiana and nationally
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currently
provides professional development nationwide
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active
professionally in the field of literacy
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Vice
President-elect of the Hamilton County
Reading Council (a division of the
International Reading Association)
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Past-President, Indiana National Staff
Development Council
Linda
Cornwell, M.S.
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graduate
degree in education
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expertise in
school and classroom libraries
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national
literacy consultant for Scholastic Classroom
Books
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school
experience as a media specialist and
secondary English/Language Arts teacher
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active in
professional associations
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listed in
Who's Who in American Education 2004, 2005,
and 2006
Ruth Swetnam,
M.A.
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postgraduate
degree from Ball State University
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postgraduate
work from New York University
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Certified
Training Consultant
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teaching
experience spans elementary through college
level
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former
Director of the Ball Sate University
Professional Development Schools Network
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former
Director of Curriculum and Asst. Director of
Special Education
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listed in
Who's Who of America's Women since 1989
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listed in
Who's Who in American Education since 2000
Karen
Wilkerson, M.S.
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classroom
English teacher for 27 years
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Department
English Chair, 10 years
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Teacher
Leadership Academy V, graduated June 2000
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Teacher
Leadership Academy IX, Facilitator
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Project SEAM
Language Arts Coordinator
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Indiana
Writing Consultant
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Cognitive
Coaching, Agency Trainer
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National
Staff Development Council Academy XVI
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Professional
Learning Communities Leader's Academy,
Graduate 2006
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Vanguard 6+1
Traits of Writing Trainer with Ruth Culham,
NWREL
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