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Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy
Action Steps for Schoolwide Success

Edited by:
  • Judith Irvin - Florida State University, USA
  • Julie Meltzer - Mount Desert Island Regional School System (Mount Desert, ME), Center for Resource Management
  • Nancy Dean - University of Florida, USA, National Literacy Project
  • Martha Jan Mickler - National Literacy Project

Foreword by Andrés Henríquez

July 2012 | 248 pages | Corwin
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Directly linked with overall student achievement, graduation rates, and success in higher education, literacy is essential for reaching academic goals in a school or county. Adolescent literacy has become the focus of many school improvement efforts to meet the needs of secondary and high school students.

Without the requisite expertise in literacy, administrators and other school leaders charged with literacy improvement initiatives need a systemic and sustained approach for improving student literacy and learning.

Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy presents a concrete, user-friendly, and practical guide to developing, implementing, and monitoring a schoolwide or county-wide literacy action plan. Readers will find rubrics, tools, and processes developed and field-tested by the authors over more than 10 years of close work with schools across the country.

 
Foreword by Andres Henriquez
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Part I. The Model, Process, and Rubrics
Rationale for a Schoolwide Focus on Literacy

 
Why Focus on Literacy?

 
How the Literacy Leadership Process Was Developed

 
The Five-Stage Literacy Leadership Process

 
How to Use the Literacy Leadership Process

 
 
Introduction: The Literacy Action Rubrics
Description of the Rubrics

 
Using the Literacy Action Rubrics

 
The Literacy Action Rubrics

 
 
Part II. Schoolwide Change in Five Stages
 
1. Stage 1: Get Ready
Step 1: Build an Effective Literacy Leadership Team

 
Step 2: Create a Vision of a Literacy-Rich School

 
Step 3: Use Data to Establish the Need for Literacy Improvement

 
Next Steps

 
 
2. Stage 2: Assess
Step 1: Identify School Strengths

 
Step 2: Summarize Key Messages From Your School Data

 
Step 3: Assess Current School Implementation Using the Literacy Action Rubrics

 
Step 4: Draft Literacy Action Goals

 
Next Steps

 
 
3. Stage 3: Plan
Step 1: Develop an Implementation Map for Each Literacy Action Goal

 
Step 2: Solicit Feedback From the School Community

 
Step 3: Revise Literacy Action Goal Statements and Implementation Maps

 
Step 4: Publish the Formal Literacy Action Plan

 
Next Steps

 
 
4. Stage 4: Implement
Step 1: Organize for Action

 
Step 2: Monitor and Troubleshoot Implementation

 
Step 3: Monitor Progress Toward Goals

 
Step 4: Plan How to Sustain Momentum

 
Next Steps

 
 
5. Stage 5: Sustain
Step 1: Summarize Progress Toward Goals

 
Step 2: Revise Implementation Maps

 
Step 3: Analyze Success as a Literacy Leadership Team

 
Step 4: Plan How to Sustain Momentum

 
Next Steps

 
 
Part III. Supporting School and District Administrators as Literacy Leaders
 
6. The Principal's Role
Support Literacy Leaders

 
The Five Action Points of the Taking Action Literacy Leadership Model

 
 
7. District Support
Communicate That Literacy Is a Priority

 
Provide Professional Development

 
Provide Specific Types of Fiscal Support

 
Establish Uniform Policies and Procedures Across the District

 
Use Data to Improve Instruction and Monitor Program Effectiveness

 
Develop and Implement a District Literacy Action Plan

 
Use the Five Action Points of the Taking Action Literacy Leadership Model

 
Review the District Plan to Ensure Alignment With State Planning and Advocacy

 
 
Resources
 
Resource A. School Vignettes
 
Resource B: Tools to Use When Implementing the Five-Stage Process
 
Resource C: Examples of Each Rubric Component in Action
 
Resource D: High School Case Study
 
Resource E: Matrix of Resources Available in Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy and Meeting the Challenge of Adolescent Literacy
 
Resource F: Glossary of Terms
 
References
 
Index

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