SYSTEM DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Components of Highly Effective Literacy Systems
- Continuous quality improvement
- Protected block of daily reading instructional time ( minimum two hours)
- Reading prioritized system-wide
- Ongoing assessment
- Simplified regular assessment administered system-wide
- Data driven decision making
- Collaborative stake-holder participation in reading system design
- Harmonized, tiered instruction
- Innovative thinking and strategizing
- Functional small group instruction within the classroom
- Fluid student grouping based on meeting deficit needs as they arise
- High expectations for all learners
- Stakeholders acquire conceptual understanding of the tenets of reading
- Teachers freed to teach