SDW in the SPOTLIGHT!

This past week we were invited to spotlight SDW literacy at the national level. Our district is a part of the Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy (PCL), which is a nationwide community of schools, educational agencies, and literacy leaders. The PCL model supports student achievement across the grades and across all content areas and embraces the Comprehensive LIteracy Model (CLM) and the Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM). A charge of the PCL is to provide and encourage professional learning and collaboration to build teacher expertise in literacy and learning. 

On Tuesday, SDW had the opportunity to share some of our literacy teaching and learning at the middle school level. 7th grade Butler Teacher and Literacy Interventionist, Jake Paulson, and District Literacy Intervention/CIM Coach, Wendy Hamilton, co-presented some of their work to the PCL’s Comprehensive Literacy Learning Network (CLLN). Jake and Wendy shared some of their thinking, planning, and teaching from one of the CIM Interventions called Comprehension Focus Group (CFG). They shared the intentionality behind the framework they developed for the intervention, aligning it to universal instruction, and then they shared various lessons in the language, reading, and writing phases. The duo also highlighted the importance of gradual release of responsibility, student choice, and building metacognition and self-regulation skills. It was an honor for SDW to be spotlighted at this powerful, national literacy network. The positive feedback received reassures us that SDW is indeed doing the right work!

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