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Explore how to provide equitable literacy instruction and assessment so every student masters essential standards. The authors help K–6 educators navigate reading and writing instruction through the lens of Professional Learning Communities at Work®. Learn strategies for utilizing data as collaborative teams to answer the four critical questions of learning, and access templates and protocols to improve literacy for all. This book will help K–6 teachers and reading specialists: Analyze and improve their current literacy practices, curriculum, and instructional focus within the context of a PLC at Work Create or curate common formative team literacy assessments for learning targets Structure a supportive master schedule that allows for daily team collaboration and systemwide response Understand the components of a comprehensive literacy instructional block Create progress-monitoring tools and focused reading interventions and extensions Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Take Collective Responsibility and Work Interdependently Chapter 2: Ensure a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 3: Assess and Monitor Student Reading Growth With Ongoing Assessment Chapter 4: Measure Evidence of Individual and Collective Teacher Practice Effectiveness Chapter 5: Support Systematically With Targeted Acceleration, Interventions, and Extensions Afterword: TEAMS Can Transform Literacy Outcomes for Students Appendix A: TEAMS Process Protocols Appendix B: TEAMS Templates References and Resources Index

From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children..., she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.One Day, All Children is not just a personal memoir. It's a blueprint for the new civil rights movement--a movement that demands educational access and opportunity for all American children.