Focus+Groups


 * Focus Groups**

As a portion of the Curriculum Network Meetings, we will break into focus groups to speak in more depth about topics. The following three focused groups have been identified. Please take a moment and sign up for the focus group in which you will participate! Simply click "Edit this Page" and add your name beneath the focus group of your choice!

Brozo and Flynt (2008) Motivating Students in the Content Classroom: Six Evidence-Based Principles. In The Reading Teachers 62(2), pp172-174 offers the following: 1. Self -Efficiacy 2. Engendering Interest in New Learning 3. Connecting OUtside with Inside School Literacies 4. Making an Abundance of Interesting Texts Available 5. Expaning Choices and Options 6.Structuring Collaboration for Motivation We continue to read Reading next which can be accessed by the following link: Here is the link to [|Reading Next] the report from the Carnegie Foundation about the 15 components of a goood Adolescent Literacy program. Here is a link to the quotes from [|Reading Next PP 020609.ppt] that we used in our discussion. Here is a report about getting to the core of middle and high school improvement with respect to [|Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas]with some good examples of what it means to read in different content areas. Click here for suggestions concerning the role and responsibilities of the literacy coach. [|The Literacy Coach]**: A key to improving literacy in the secondary program.** Click here for screening tests from PATTAN for [|Secondary RTI] Click here to find information on [|Positive Behavior Support which includes steps in setting up a school-wide system of discipline]
 * Literacy**
 * Notes from the February 6, 2009** the Adolescent Literacy group talked about the article from the Reading Teachers which listed 6 strategies to motivate students to read.
 * RTII**


 * Here is a link to the [|**RtI manual**] for you to use as you consider implementing RtII. **

Up for new series - Pearson?? Harcourt?? Any suggestions???? || 60 min Rescheduling for next year ||
 * List of Reading Interventions currently used in local districts ||
 * Intervention || Tier I, II or III || Grade Level || Reading Series in your school || Minutes per week ||
 * ReadWell || Tier II || 1st & 2nd || Mid Valley - MM/H

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