Literacy Updates for Principals

Click on the HELP button above to schedule me. I would love to support your ELAR teachers as they work to unpack and identify their power standards, develop common formative assessments, analyze data, and learn to plan with the WUOS. I can do standing appointments each week or be invited on an as-needed basis.

Upcoming Literacy PD

Sept. 5 - Fall Study Series Sesion

Sept. 11 - ESC 11 Set Sail with Phonics

Sept. 12 - Literacy Impact Team Meeting

Sept. 13 - BOY Assessment Window Closes

Sept. 18 - Jennifer Serravallo Training

Sept. 19 - Fall Study Series Session

Sept. 24 - ESC Region 11 Brain Based Phonics Instruction

Sept. 24 - The EdCollab Gathering

The Teachers College Reading & Writing Project is hosting a Leadership Institute Supporting Whole District & Whole School Reform in NYC from Oct. 16 - 18. Check your local PD budgets and your calendars, and consider applying for this life-changing PD opportunity. Additionally, TCRWP offers two FREE PD events each year for teachers known as Saturday Reunions. Check them out!

Stephanie Zelenak, the Lead4Ward consultant, reminded us that our current ELAR data will be minimally useful to us for the next two years. Instead, she encouraged us to focus on the TWO priorities captured in the image below.

TCAP Released Items.pdf

Word on the street is that our new ELAR STAAR tests could look at lot like the Tennessee state exams, known as TCAP. Mr. Springston shared that he has a friend on the Texas State Board of Education who encouraged us to start studying released items. Join me and let's learn together!

If you haven't explored the new TEKS Guides, I highly encourage you to do so. This will be our "go-to" resource this year as we learn the new ELAR TEKS.

You can view DISD's STAAR Writing data trends for the last several years below. Also, please make sure you have shared the STAAR compositions with your staff. All grade levels should be reading the papers—not just 4th and 7th grade!

Decatur ISD Longitudinal STAAR Writing Data
Literacy Resources One Pager

Click on the file above to view the ELAR instructional materials for grades K-8