Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy: Action Steps for Schoolwide Success, for Grades 4-12

By Julie Meltzer, Martha Jan Mickler, Nancy Dean

Book Overview

"This rich resource walks middle and high school literacy leaders through a comprehensive process for conceptualizing, initiating, and, most important, sustaining a schoolwide literacy learning program. The authors clearly know teachers and schools, and their reality-tested tools will prove invaluable in guiding and supporting middle and high school literacy leaders."
--Doug Buehl
Author, Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

A systemic and sustainable approach for improving adolescent literacy and learning

Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy provides educational leaders with a user-friendly and comprehensive planning process for developing a new literacy initiative--or for dramatically enhancing a current plan--that has the power not only to raise student performance levels but also to positively impact graduation rates, employability, and higher education success.

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, and a glossary of terms. Each stage in the process builds upon a school or district′s existing capacities and focuses on six detailed rubrics that can be implemented at every stage to help ensure long-term success:

Student motivation and engagement Literacy across the content areas Literacy interventions Literacy-rich environment, policies, and culture Parent and community involvement District support of school-based efforts

Helping educators build the critical skills in students for communicating and making meaning within an increasingly complex world, this book shows how a sustained focus on literacy can serve as a powerful lever for school improvement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412979803
• ISBN13: 9781412979801
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"