Literacy Design Collaborative June 23-24 and October 10, 2014

Free registration is available exclusively for teachers and administrators in King and Pierce County and Bainbridge Island. Non classroom teachers must attend with a classroom teacher in order to co-create a module (LDC) and support implementation. Participants must attend all three days of training.

Implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) requires significant shifts in teaching and learning. Higher levels of rigor and expectations for all students, shared responsibility for teaching literacy in all content area classes, and increased demands of text complexity demand new approaches to curriculum planning and development. The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) Framework provides teachers and curriculum developers an instructional strategy that assures implementation of the CCSS in classroom practice. During this three day course participants will learn about the components of the LDC framework and the rubrics for scoring student work generated from LDC modules. Participants will write an LDC module, practice scoring student work and calibrate scoring practices with their colleagues. The opportunity to revise modules and plan for future modules will also be provided.

Participants will consider topics, units of study and content they teach in September and come ready to write an informational module during the first session. Participants are expected to bring a laptop and supporting texts for the topic they have chosen. (If ELA teachers are using a novel, they should bring a piece of informational text that will provide students a context for the book.)

For more information on LDC, visit http://www.literacydesigncollaborative.org/

CLOCK/CREDIT:

• Clock hours available for $2 per hour
• College credit through Seattle University

APPLICANT COMMITMENTS:

Each participant is expected to:

• Attend all trainings.
• Use social media tools (wiki, Edmodo, Twitter) as learning tools.
• Develop and teach an LDC modules
• Share student work and data indicating the impact that LDC has on student achievement.