I think you need to investigate the model. What I think you are referring to as prescriptive is the roll-out of staff development, training schedules and commitment of time and resources. The literacy collaborative is not a scripted program of instruction but researched literacy strategies. The framework provides teachers with a variety of tools to address the individual needs of each child. It also requires a full time on site coach who is using the strategies in the classroom, a very powerful model. I trained in a model very similiar to this in California almost 12 years ago. Now we are forced to make decisions that put the adopted curriculum program implementation at the center of our decisions and not the child. We are in constant battle with what we teach overshadowing how to teach it. The literacy collaborative will provide many instructional tools for you to choose from, and a coach to support your learning and implementation. There is a great deal of power in creating learning communities that use a similar language, collect data to inform instruction and have a variety of strategies to differentiate instruction. It is difficult to be in a position of being told, the message is often lost in the delivery. I would encourage you to explore the website, investigate the partners who created the model, and talk to the schools that are using it and get first hand information. Good luck! :) Deb
>>> "Odland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/11/07 11:36 AM >>> Help! Help!! To make a very heated and divided issue to the point I am going to try summarize! Three years ago our district brought the literacy collaborative from ohio state to one of our elementary schools. That building is the only fully funded chapter one school in our district so it has lots of money compared to the other 5 elem. schools. The rest of us have now been told that we are all going to be doing the literacy collaborative from ohio state unless we come up with another program (on our own time) that has a coaching model that is imbedded in the program. If you are involved in the literacy collaborative a teacher goes to ohio state and is trained there. We are of the understanding that the program is very prescriptive and is more for failing schools. Our building was hoping to send a teacher to get her/his degree in reading or hire a teacher/coach like many of you out there!!! We were told that that is not ok. the coach has to be a part OF the program. I hope I am making sense. This is my first time writing to our group. Waiting to hear from you highly educated teachers and mentors! deb odland _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
