Taking the lead on adolescent literacy : action steps for schoolwide success / Judith L. Irvin [and others] ; foreword by Andrés Henríquez.

Using a five-stage framework that has been field-tested nationwide for more than a decade, the authors provide an array of resources to guide in-depth planning, implementation, and monitoring to ensure sustained results, supported by examples from literacy-rich schools, checklists and assessments, a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Irvin, Judith L., 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : [Newark, Del.] : Corwin Press ; International Reading Association, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • The model, process, and rubrics. Rationale for a schoolwide focus on literacy
  • Introduction to the literacy action rubrics
  • Schoolwide change in five stages. Stage 1 : get ready
  • Stage 2 : assess
  • Stage 3 : plan
  • Stage 4 : implement
  • Stage 5 : sustain
  • School and district administrators as literacy leaders. The principal's role
  • District support
  • Resource A : school vignettes
  • Resource B : tools to use when implementing the five-stage process
  • Resource C : examples of each rubric component in action
  • Resource D : Riverton High School case study
  • Resource E : matrix of resources available in Taking action on adolescent literacy and Meeting the challenge of adolescent literacy
  • Resource F : glossary of terms.