I was trained and served as a CELL(California Early Literacy Learning)Literacy Coordinator. I think they have now changed name to Comprehensive Early Literacy Learning as they have expanded into other states. Anyway, the founders were origninally Reading Recovery trainers; one was originally from Ohio State and worked with Gay Su Pinnell. The framework was the same and assessment was similar. My school benefitted greatly from the common goals and language;an assessment continuum was used throughout the grade levels. We could finally talk to each other and understand the assessment data each teacher had gathered on a child through the years. This framework did benefit our needy Title I school but I also observed it used in schools with much different demographics and those students were thriving on deeper comprehension and reading-writing connections. Don't panic; probably any literacy model you all work on together and strive for strategic implementation using an effective coach will work out well. It's the collaboration and continual self reflection, peer coaching, and school buy-in that makes the difference.
Carol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Odland Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:37 AM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] A new reading "program" 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.
