A School-Wide Plan for Meeting the Five Literacy Goals

Team Members:

Larry Brooks II, Cindy Lewis, Catrina Bailey, Anthony Barton, Thomas Oxendine, Julie Blackmon, and Lisa S. Thoman

Public Schools of Robeson County / South Robeson High School

Goal #1

Year One
2012
English / 4
Math / 1
Science / 1
Social Studies / 2
Health / 1
Electives / 1 book per elective
Total / 10

1 Book: Equivalent of 100 Pages

Accountability/Monitoring:

Students will record their pages read on the “Reading Logs.”

A School-Wide Plan for Meeting the Five Literacy Goals

Team Members:

Larry Brooks II, Cindy Lewis, Catrina Bailey, Anthony Barton, Thomas Oxendine, Julie Blackmon, and Lisa S. Thoman

Literacy Goal: /
  1. Students will read the equivalent of 25 books per year across the curriculum.

Strategy/Activity
(What steps will we take, including staff development?) / Time Line
(When will we take this step?) / Person(s) Responsible
(Accountability) / Resources
(What materials will we need?) / Communications
(What are our message points/outlets? Who are our audiences?) / Progress on/Status of this Strategy
  1. Present and review Literacy Plan to entire faculty
  • Literacy plan expectations
  • Question and Answer session
  • Utilize PTA to inform stakeholders
  1. Begin to create a student literacy center using the additional literature available on campus.
  1. Use technology to enhance school-wide literacy
  1. Utilize the Kindle Lab
  2. Utilize the Mobile Labs
  3. Student Computers within classrooms
  4. Utilize Digital Media (Flip Video, Eduware, and CPS)
  1. Implement school wide silent-sustained reading – 4 days a week
(Monday – Thursday) / Year One: 2011/2012
Feb. 2012
Feb. 2012 – May 2012
Feb. 2012 – May 2012
(ongoing)
Feb. 2012 – May 2012 / Literacy Team
Administration
Administration
Teachers
Curriculum & Instruction
Administration
School Media Specialist
Teachers
Technology Facilitator
Literacy Team
Teachers
Students / Develop PowerPoint presentation on literacy plan
Various types of print and genres (SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum)
Various types of print and genres (SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum)
Classroom libraries (newspapers, magazines, novel sets) /
  • Gaggle Digital Locker
  • Faculty and Staff
  • School Website
  • PLC
  • Media Specialist
  • Technology Facilitator
  • Curriculum Specialist
  • Administration
  • Classroom
  • Teachers
  • Students
/ Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Accountability:
How will we know when we meet the goal? What process will we use to measure our progress? /
  • Summative Assessments
  • Quarterly Benchmark Testing
  • Formative Assessments
  • Student Portfolio – F4K
  • PSRC Reading List
  • Reading Logs with incentives

Literacy Goal: /
  1. Students will write weekly in all classes.

Strategy/Activity
(What steps will we take, including staff development?) / Time Line
(When will we take this step?) / Person(s) Responsible
(Accountability) / Resources
(What materials will we need?) / Communications
(What are our message points/outlets? Who are our audiences?) / Progress on/Status of this Strategy
  1. Instruct staff on using school-wide writing rubric (English Department)
  1. Content area teachers develop common writing assignments for writing to learn and writing to demonstrate knowledge
  • Personal Journals
  • Learning Logs
  • Quick Writes
  • Admit/Exit Slips
  1. Students will create at least one piece of authentic writing done in each content area
(Articles, Editorials, Poems, Short Stories, Memo’s, Resumes, E-mails, Scripts, How-To Manuals) / Year One: 2011/2012
Jan. 2012
Sept. 2011
(on going)
Oct. 2011
Jan. 2012
Mar. 2012
May 2012 / English Department
Literacy Team
Teachers
Literacy Team
Teachers
Students / Laptop/Projector
Literacy Team
PSRC Curriculum Specialists
SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book
Notebooks
Pen, Pencils
Computer / South Robeson Faculty, Staff and Administration
  • PLC
  • Teachers
  • Students
  • PLC
  • Website
  • Teachers
  • Students
  • Parents
  • Community
/ Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Accountability:
How will we know when we meet the goal? What process will we use to measure our progress? /
  • Classroom discussions
  • Reflection Logs
  • Department Meetings/Minutes
  • Lesson Plans
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • SRHS Literacy Workshop PowerPoints
  • Student Work Samples Displayed
  • Student Portfolios

Literacy Goal: /
  1. Students will use reading and writing strategies to enhance learning in all classes.

Strategy/Activity
(What steps will we take, including staff development?) / Time Line
(When will we take this step?) / Person(s) Responsible
(Accountability) / Resources
(What materials will we need?) / Communications
(What are our message points/outlets? Who are our audiences?) / Progress on/Status of this Strategy
  1. Students will complete four literacy strategies from the Big 6 Reading Skills school wide (per semester)
  • K-W-L
  • Foldables
  • RAFT
  • Frayer Model
  • JigSaw
  • Word Wall
  • Paraphrasing
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Carousel Brainstorming
  • Cornell Notes
  1. Literacy Team will instruct and facilitate staff use of literacy strategies.
  1. Students will utilize Word Walls and Power Verbs in all content area classrooms for reviewing content specific vocabulary
  1. Students will engage in before, during, and after reading strategies (SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book)
/ Year One: 2011/2012
Feb. 2012 – May 2012
(last week of each month)
Oct. 2011 – May 2012
Oct. 2011 – May 2012
Sept. 2011– May 2012 / Literacy Team
Teachers
Administration
Curriculum and Instruction
Students
Literacy Team
Administration
Teachers
Curriculum Specialist
Literacy Team
Teachers
Curriculum Specialist
Literacy Team
Teachers
Students
Curriculum Specialist / Reading and writing strategies
SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book
Reading and writing strategies
SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book
SCOS – all content
Reading and writing strategies
SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book /
  • School Literacy Website
  • PLC
  • Department
Meetings
  • Teachers
  • Students
  • PLC
  • Department Meetings
  • Teachers
  • Classroom
  • Collaborative Departmental Meetings
  • Students
  • Classroom
  • Department Meetings
  • Students
/ Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Accountability:
How will we know when we meet the goal? What process will we use to measure our progress? /
  • Lesson Plans
  • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Department Meetings/Minutes
  • Student Work Displayed
  • Word Walls and Power Verbs
  • Castle Learning Software Program

Literacy Goal: /
  1. Students will create research products in all classes.

Strategy/Activity
(What steps will we take, including staff development?) / Time Line
(When will we take this step?) / Person(s) Responsible
(Accountability) / Resources
(What materials will we need?) / Communications
(What are our message points/outlets? Who are our audiences?) / Progress on/Status of this Strategy
  1. Discuss phases and outcome of the research implementation during PLCs
  1. Students will practice and teachers will monitor the research process
  • Focused research questions
  • 5 W’s
  • Note cards
  • Editing
  • Lesson on plagiarism
  • Summarizing
  • Paraphrasing
  • Organization
  • Documentation/Citation
  1. Students will produce various products such as:
  • Brochures
  • PowerPoint presentations
  • Video’s
  • Performances
  • Other
/ Year One: 2011/2012
Feb. 2012
Feb. 2012 – May 2012
Nov. 2011 – May 2012 / Literacy Team
English Department
Curriculum Specialist
Administration
Literacy Team
Media Specialist
Teachers
Students
English Teachers
Literacy Team
Administration
Media Specialist
Curriculum Specialists / Planning Periods
Computer
Pen
Pencils
Paper
Media Center
SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book
Planning Periods /
  • PLC
  • School Literacy Website
  • PLCs
  • Teachers
  • Students
  • School Website
  • PLCs
  • Teachers
  • Students
/ Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Accountability:
How will we know when we meet the goal? What process will we use to measure our progress? /
  • School Literacy Website
  • Formative assessments

Literacy Goal: /
  1. Students will be taught as if they were in honors classes (focus on high expectations).

Strategy/Activity
(What steps will we take, including staff development?) / Time Line
(When will we take this step?) / Person(s) Responsible
(Accountability) / Resources
(What materials will we need?) / Communications
(What are our message points/outlets? Who are our audiences?) / Progress on/Status of this Strategy
  1. Introduce rigor so that students challenge themselves to achieve mastery of the Common Core and Essential Standards.
  1. Create a student-centered classroom (focused on student engagement, an inviting environment, conducive to learning)
  1. Re-teach and re-test until the standards are mastered.
  1. Diagnostic PLAN and ACT for all 10th and 11th graders (respectively)
/ Year One: 2011/2012
Feb. 2012
Aug. 2011 – May 2012
Feb. 2012 – May 2012
Dec. 2011 – March 2012 / Faculty and Staff
Administration
Students
Literacy Team
Teachers
Curriculum Specialist
Teachers and Students
Testing Coordinator
Literacy Team
Teachers
Students / SCOS and
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
Rubrics
Graphic Organizers
Thinking Maps
Literacy Strategies
SREB Literacy Across the Curriculum book
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Assessments
Literacy Strategies
Saturday Academy
After School Tutoring
Computers
Testing Sites
Software /
  • PLC’s
  • Department Meetings
  • PLC’s
  • Announcements
  • School Website
  • Teachers
  • Testing Administration
/ Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Initial Stage
Accountability:
How will we know when we meet the goal? What process will we use to measure our progress? /
  • Formative Assessments
  • Summative Assessments
  • Quarterly benchmark testing
  • Castle Learning
  • Career Cruising SAT/ACT Software
  • SAT/ACT individual skill summary reports

A School-Wide Plan for Meeting the Five Literacy Goals

Team Members:

Larry Brooks II, Cindy Lewis, Catrina Bailey, Anthony Barton, Thomas Oxendine, Julie Blackmon, and Lisa S. Thoman

Public Schools of Robeson County / South Robeson High School
Year One
2011-2012 / Year Two
2012-2013 / Year Three
2013-2014 / Year Four
2014-2015
ENGLISH / 4 / 6 / 7
MATH / 1 / 1 / 2
SCIENCE / 1 / 1 / 2
SOCIAL STUDIES / 2 / 2 / 3
HEALTH / 1 / 2 / 2
ELECTIVES / 1 BOOK PER ELECTIVE / 2 BOOKS PER ELECTIVE / 4 BOOKS PER ELECTIVE
TOTAL / 10 / 14 / 20

*100 pages equals 1 book