In my role as ELA Director, I serve teachers in grades Pre-K through 12th grade by aligning curriculum, collecting and analyzing data, setting district goals in English and Spanish Language Arts, and providing professional development and coaching that teachers need to refine their practices.
201t-2016 ELA Department Goals In grades Kindergarten - 5th grade, CISD is continuing to move toward a Balanced Literacy model and grades 6 - 8 will begin transitioning to Readers' and Writers' Workshops! 2nd and 3rd grades will be using the Comprehension Toolkit by Harvey & Goudvis to teach students how to monitor their own comprehension, connect to background knowledge, ask relevant questions, infer, determine importance, and summarize. Grades 4-8 will be using the inquiry approach to launch genre based units of instruction as outlined by Fountas and Pinnell. In all grades, reading instruction will focus on one of the following things:
These practice will directly impact our problem of practice in instructional rounds and English language proficiency, as measured by TELPAS. |