Leader's Guide to Reading and Writing in a PLC at Work®, Secondary (ePub)

Take an active role in achieving and sustaining literacy improvement in your PLC. An essential leadership resource in the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this valuable guide outlines how to drive literacy instruction in a secondary setting. Learn how to support your collaborative teams, gather and analyze data, and ensure students can read and write at or beyond grade level.

This book offers leadership strategies for secondary literacy education that works:

• Understand the challenges of leading literacy and the importance of using those challenges as opportunities for change.
  
• Launch your journey to become a literacy leader with effective listening, learning, and active engagement.
  
• Recognize the importance of data to new literacy-focused initiatives, reading instruction, and writing strategies.
  
• Establish professional development and differentiated instructional strategies for effective literacy instruction across academic disciplines.
  
• Measure literacy growth and sustain a continual learning environment for all students.

Contents:

Introduction: The Need for Literacy Instruction

Chapter 1: Confronting the Challenges of Leading Literacy

Chapter 2: Starting With Listening, Learning, and Leading With Action

Chapter 3: Leading With Data

Chapter 4: Leading Professional Learning

Chapter 5: Leading Instruction

Chapter 6: Leading Intervention

Chapter 7: Measuring Growth and Sustainability

Epilogue

References and Resources

Index