10-11+Literacy+Report


 * __ Single Plan for Student Achievement Planning Report for 2010-2011 __**

Department, Team or Program: Literacy Coordinator

Name of person submitting the report: Jonathan LeMaster

1. What were your successes in meeting your team goals and supporting the Site Goals? This year we formed a Literacy Action Team. The team consists of 25 teachers from various content areas. Forming this team meets WASC, SAIT, and Site goals for school-wide literacy. We have also focused our professional development on best practices and literacy instruction. The Literacy Action Team decides on the focus of the professional development and individual members facilitate the trainings. By year’s end, we will have the outline for a school-wide approach to adolescent literacy. We have attempted to include as many staff members as possible in the development of the literacy program. The goal of the program, of course, is to improve students’ literacy and by doing so raise student achievement; specifically, a systematic, focused approach to literacy should increase the amount of A, B, Cs students earn and raise test scores. It will take at least three years before this program is fully implemented and impacting students’ grades and performance on tests. Lastly, we continue to support teachers who have gone through Content Area Literacy Professionals (CAL Pros) 2-day literacy training. Nearly sixty content area teachers have gone through at least one level of CAL Pros, and all of these teachers received AVID’s //Critical Reading: Deep Reading Strategies for Expository Texts//. We know have a facility dedicated to professional development. I will use this facility to deliver various trainings on teaching and learning in the content areas.

2. What were your challenges in meeting team your goals and supporting the Site Goals?

No challenges to report other than the “growing pains” that come with change and higher expectations.

3. What are your department/team/program needs for supporting student learning for next year in these areas?

I am requesting a budget of $25,000 dollars for next year. The budget will cover subs for professional development (this PD is beyond the monthly prep period trainings), literacy resources for students and teachers which includes classroom posters, materials, teaching resources, and photocopies for teachers who cannot mark textbooks. Once ECVHS’s literacy program is finalized, I will use part of my release time to train teachers on how to best employ school-wide strategies in their classrooms.


 * __Supplemental__** Materials and Supplies to assist students who need additional support to learn (please do not list basic classroom supplies).

We should purchase an assessment tool that measures students’ literacy as they progress through high school. Currently, we do not have a tool to accurately assess students’ ability to read, write, and think. We need a test that calculates students’ literacy levels entering and exiting a class. This data will help us better prepare for the learners we have in our classrooms and assess if the reading strategies are working to improve students’ literacy. The district does not have a program (or plan) in place to produce this type of information. The word from the district is: “Develop your own assessments or pay a company to generate them for you.” All departments are in support of such a tool. We need data on our students. We need a way to assess their growth. And we need a way to measure the effectiveness of our own programs like tutorial, night library, and the various reading intervention classes we have on our campus.