Washington County Adolescent Literacy Project An Adolescent Literacy

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Washington County Adolescent Literacy Project An Adolescent Literacy Project Partnership funded through the Northeast

Washington County Adolescent Literacy Project An Adolescent Literacy Project Partnership funded through the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University (LAB) Project Director: Julie Meltzer, Ph. D. , Center for Resource Management, Inc. (CRM)

Project Goal and Context Project Goal: To strengthen and accelerate academic literacy development for

Project Goal and Context Project Goal: To strengthen and accelerate academic literacy development for struggling and unmotivated readers and writers in rural high schools. Project Context: § Five small low-performing rural high schools § Geographically isolated, economically depressed § Currently in Year 2 of the intervention/applied research study

Key Intervention Strategies n n Coaching school-based teams to put literacy action plans in

Key Intervention Strategies n n Coaching school-based teams to put literacy action plans in place in each school Providing quality teacher professional development in content area reading Supporting teacher use of high impact research-based literacy strategies across the content areas Working with regional, state, and university partners to provide project support

Adolescent Literacy Support Framework

Adolescent Literacy Support Framework

Early Indicators of Project Impact n n Teacher and administrator buy-in: literacy seen as

Early Indicators of Project Impact n n Teacher and administrator buy-in: literacy seen as central instead of marginal Substantive widespread use of literacy support strategies in classroom teaching across the content areas Improved student engagement and increased completion of reading and writing tasks Higher/more common expectations for student work

Early Indicators of Project Impact n n n Positive changes in teacher interactions with

Early Indicators of Project Impact n n n Positive changes in teacher interactions with students Positive changes in teacher efforts to make a difference for those students with weaker literacy habits and skills Changes in textbook purchasing patterns, teacher lesson planning, and studentchoice books linked to project “Literacy is not something extra on the plate, literacy IS the plate. ”