Literacy Leadership Network

Literacy Leadership Network

Facilitators:
Judy Menard
Maureen Schiefelbein

2012-2013
Network Meetings
CESA 8 Office, Gillett
12:30-3:30 PM each day

Dates
January 9, 2013
April 8, 2013
and Possibly June 5 or 12, 2013

Membership also includes:
Dr. Marcia Tate’s
Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites:
20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain Workshop
March 19, 2013
9:00 AM– 3:30 PM
Comfort Inn and Suites
Rivers Bend Road
Shawano, WI

Pursuits:

• Start up a Literacy Leadership Team among CESA 8 districts to create and enhance capacity of literacy knowledge within schools.
• Establish the Literacy Leadership Team as a collaborative network that fosters a literate climate to support effective teaching and learning.
• Support teachers in the CESA 8 region and beyond in the continual advancement of quality literacy practices.

Purpose:

• Provide opportunities for collegial dialogue
• Explore new products and trends
• Empower and support group members to work toward common goals in their districts.

Benefits of the Literacy Leadership Network

• Positive impact on student learning.
• Transfer teacher learning into the classroom.
• Catalyst for school-wide literacy change.

Steps Toward Literacy Success

• Understand the theory and research on how literacy develops.
• Model and demonstrate literacy strategies to support and encourage developing readers.
• Help students to see themselves as successful readers, growing in confidence and competence, and setting goals to increase literacy achievement.
• Develop a literacy mandate for the school/district, with teams of teachers engaged in building competent readers and writers.

Network meetings are devoted to six areas of literacy leadership:

Politics
Interventions That Work
Systemic Leadership
Literacy Coaching
Instructional/Assessment
Practices Research

Network Fee: $200.00 per person for CESA 8 Title 1 school districts. $250.00 per person all other districts

Judy Menard is the Literacy/Intervention Specialist and Title I Coordinator for CESA 8. After 15 years as a classroom teacher, Judy received Literacy Coach training from Linda Dorn and Carla Soffos in the Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy Model. She was a Literacy Coach in the Shawano School District for 7 years prior to working for CESA 8. As a Literacy Coach she worked with staff and provided literacy interventions. Judy looks forward to both learning and sharing information about best literacy research and practice

Maureen Schiefelbein is a Reading Specialist for Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District. She has 24 years of experience in the field of education, ten of those years in her current role. She received Literacy Coaches training through UALR in 2009 and Reading Recovery Training in 2011. She has extensive background of the Comprehensive Literacy Model and is excited to share her knowledge of literacy with interested literacy professionals.

Contact Information
Judy Menard, Literacy Coordinator
jmenard@cesa8.k12.wi.us

 

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