Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Literacy Advisory CommitteeJanuary 22, 2014

Our purpose today is to review the key literacy professional learning opportunities that have taken place in the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium region this year based on advisory committee direction and dialogue.

…and begin plans for next year that aligns with Inspiring Education, Curriculum Redesign and school authority needs/direction.

What you asked us to do and what we did

What you asked us to do!

• Support for Curriculum Redesign and the cross-curricular competencies

• Develop a literacy framework (balanced literacy, daily 5, intervention)

• Follow up with AARI• Plan a Literacy summer

conference

What we did and are doing!

• Support for Curriculum Redesign through district days, development of cohorts, PD resources

• Develop a literacy guideline • Implement Literacy for All Pilot

Project –Grades 7-12 • Provide Professional Learning

opportunities with authors• Engaged in plans for a summer

conference

ERLC Regional Literacy Guideline

• Meeting• Draft• Purpose– Communications for

facilitators– Informative for planning

professional learning– Potential to support

school authority planning

• Next steps– Literacy benchmarks– Alberta revised program

of studies ( e.g., curriculum redesign)

– Cross curriculum competencies

Learning Opportunities

Upcoming• Kylene Beers and Robert Probst

–Struggling Reader, Jan 23• Penny Kittle- Book Love

and Writing, March 3 & 4• Daily Five –The Sisters, Feb 7• Karen Erickson -Literacy for Stu

dents with Significant Disabilities Feb 11,12,13

• Literacy Benchmarks –Karen Loerke – April 25

• Future?

Past• Robert Cutting –FNMI and st

orytelling• Balanced Literacy –Division I

(Wendy Legaarden and Judy Bourassa)

• Balanced Literacy Division II –(Anne Muir & Keri Busenius)

• Best Practices (Division III, IV) –Irene Heffel

• Smartboards and Ipads for Language Arts –Karla Holt

PD Resources

• Archived Webinars – Literacy RTI– Ipads– Smart Boards– Engaging Learners– Literature and Social Studies

• Pilot –Literacy for All Wiki• Inclusive Education PD Re

sources – Literacy • Curriculum Redesign Wiki

– Cross-Curricular Competencies

• Learning Technologies

• What else? Future needs?

District Days – Karen Loerke

• Completed 9/18 districts; Plans with 13/18

• Book clubs, guided reading, close reading

• Reading and writing assessment

• Word study• Coaching• Literacy Benchmarks

• Grounded in literacy principles

• Comprehensive literacy approach

• Incorporate “curriculum redesign” ( e.g. literacy benchmarks and cross- curriculum competencies)

Literacy Benchmarks

• Organized by three components: 1)awareness, 2) knowledge and understanding, and 3) strategies

• Developed in all subject/discipline areas at all grade levels

• 9 elements and 5 developmentally age groups

Draft Literacy Benchmarks: 9 Elements

1. Awareness• How being literate enables me and others to create and express

meaning• Use literacy skills to represent what I know, and do, and need to

learn

2. Knowledge and Understanding• Communicate to define and develop ideas • Use my knowledge of structures, rules and tools of language to

communicate meaning• Use diverse texts and media to develop ideas and understanding

Draft Literacy Benchmarks: 9 Elements

3. Strategies• Connect and select background knowledge

and personal experiences to develop new understanding

• Use effective and efficient strategies to acquire knowledge and understanding

• Use effect and efficient strategies to respond to knowledge and understanding

Summer Literacy and Numeracy Conference

• Summer 2013 – Literacy, technology and

inclusive education

• Summer 2014 • K-12 Literacy and

Numeracy Benchmarks– Thought leaders– Aligned with ERLC region

literacy framework?

• Should we or shouldn’t we?

• RFP districts…..• Format e.g., Literacy

Benchmarks– Use tools of language to

communicate meaning– Use effective strategies

to acquire knowledge

Next Steps

Planning Forward• Literacy Guideline –directs

future directionsOther?