Designing Literacy Initiatives for Whole School Improvement in Grades 7-12

This innovative resource kit, based on the latest research on school excellence, offers a step-by-step approach to designing and operating a schoolwide literacy initiative using highly successful model examples.

The kit helps schools:

• engage their leadership team to script training for all teachers
• use their own teacher expertise and literacy coaches to build capacity
• apply activities, strategies, and rubrics in every classroom and monitor classroom implementation
• achieve higher student achievement, graduation rates, and staff morale

Authors: Nicole Hochholzer and Tom Fitzgerald

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