Shift #7: Realign principal, instructional coach, and teacher recognition, performance goals, and financial rewards to embrace the full range of reading skills rather than associating book reading level as the priority success measure.
Strategy: Revise district and campus goals (e.g., board goals, campus improvement plans) and all educator performance incentives to prioritize grade-level proficiency across all reading skills based on a universal screener.
When you think about how your system currently signals reading success, how are TEACHERS recognized or rewarded for it? | Link to live responses
When you think about how your system currently signals reading success, how are PRINCIPALS and CAMPUS LEADERS recognized or rewarded for it? | Link to live responses
Aim at aligning motivational structures in our systems to support structured literacy implementation.
Strategy focus to target in order to make progress on this alignment
To what extent do our goals and norms align with our structured literacy objectives?
Stakeholders and structures that signal what matters
Without incentives resistance occurs
Benefits of alignment
Activity - Campus Improvement Plan: Check for Alignment to Structured Literacy
Campus team to make a copy and share with team
Step 1: Individual Review of Goals
Step 2: Group Sensemaking
Activity Materials
CIP - Alignment Check - Instructional Strategies