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kirstenburkesmith — 2024-02-10 15:18:16 UTC

What resonated with your group about the roles of literacy professionals?

What are you most excited about?

What do you want more support around to prepare you as a literacy specialist?

What should you do if your school or district does not have a specific position as a literacy specialist?

Room 1 (Calogero, Anna, Rachel, Ethan)

2024-02-10 15:28:47 UTC

-We resonated with the fact that literacy professionals are split into two areas, student-facing and teacher-facing, but that these roles must work together to be effective

-We are excited about being able to work closely and help students grow. Especially for those that work in content areas (social studies), we are excited to bring in our literacy instruction alongside content. Additionally, helping other teachers grow and implement effective literacy instruction into their own classroom is exciting.

-We would like more cooperation between literacy specialists and coaches. Instruction should be cooperative and planned beforehand.

-If there is not specific position, one step is to cooperate with literacy specialists in other schools/districts. You can also meet with your fellow teachers to do some initial discussion and planning regarding literacy. Finally, you can be a driving factor for change and encourage (or harass) your school to create such a position.

Kli and Cayla

2024-02-10 15:32:14 UTC

Prior to the readings and the videos, we were not aware that the roles of literacy coaches and literacy specialists were different.
We are most excited about not only engaging with students but also with teachers and administrators.
We would like to have multiple resources to supports us and be in handy when needed.
If our school or district does not have specific position as a literacy specialist, we can be an advocate and stress the importance of having a literacy specialist or coaches in our district/schools.

Room 3 (Cam, Emily T, Megan, Mattason)

2024-02-10 15:35:02 UTC

Something that resonated with our group is that there is a difference between literacy coaches and reading specialists. We did not know that there was a difference between the two.

Something that we are excited about is being able to provide meaningful small group literacy instruction to students. We are also looking forward to using content that we are learning to benefit us as classroom teachers.

Something that we agreed to want more support in is changing curriculum. If there are any changes to curriculum, we would want to have those changes communicated with us through training, professional development, or even hands on support during instruction.

If our school doesn't have a specific literacy specialist position, we would try to communicate with reading teachers in the school if we needed support. We would also use our principal to see who we would need to reach out to in order to receive literacy support.