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Atlantic City (NJ) Public Schools: Improved literacy in K-8 gives high school students a boost
Atlantic City began working with Lesley University’s CRR in 2003. Once a chronically low-performing district, since implementation of LC Atlantic City has improved the literacy of student in elementary and middle grade. Consequently, once Atlantic City students reach high school,...
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative News
Posted April 02, 2012
Literacy Collaborative Featured in EdWeek as Successful School Improvement Model
Literacy Collaborative was recently featured in EdWeek as a successful school improvement model. Read more about how our coaching-based program offers lessons on reading instruction and professional development design....
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Posted March 12, 2012
Race to the Top, ARRA, & RTI funding
Literacy Collaborative qualifies as a “research-based” program and can be funded with Race to the Top, ARRA, RTI, Title 1, or other federal funds, depending on your state or district requirements. The attached Word document describes the ways in which...
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Posted November 04, 2010
LC's latest value-added study published in Elementary School Journal
An article published in September 2010 in the prestigious, peer-reviewed research journal, Elementary School Journal, describing the value-added effects of the LC program on student achievement in 17 LC schools.
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative News
Posted October 12, 2010
Literacy Collaborative Makes Front Page of EdWeek
Read the EdWeek article that reports that the Literacy Collaborative coaching model improved student achievement.
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Posted May 18, 2010
Literacy Collaborative provides a tiered instructional model that meets Response to Intervention (RtI) guidelines
Learn how the Literacy Collaborative model provides tiered instruction to meet the needs of all learners!
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative News
Posted November 19, 2009
Large-scale federally funded study finds Literacy Collaborative raises rates of learning by 32%
A Value-Added Study of Literacy Collaborative Funded by the USDOE Shows 32% Increase in the Average Rate of Student Learning Over Three Years and Substantial Growth in Teacher Expertise
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Posted August 07, 2009
Reading Recovery Receives Top Ratings from the U.S.E.D.'s What Works Clearinghouse
Reading Recovery was found to be the only early intervention with positive effects on children’s reading across all four domains in a March 2007 review of 153 early reading interventions conducted by the What Works Clearinghouse.
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Posted January 15, 2008
LC Accepted into CSRQ Report on Twenty-Two Elementary School Models
The Literacy Collaborative has been included in a newly revised, online guide to comprehensive elementary-school reform programs published by the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative News
Posted April 26, 2007
Literacy Collaborative accepted into the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's Catalog of School Reform Models
In December 2005, Literacy Collaborative was accepted as a Reading/Language Arts model into the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory’s Catalog of School Reform models. The purpose of the Catalog of School Reform Models is to assist educators in identifying an external model that meets the needs of their school. It is produced jointly by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory and the Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement.
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Posted March 08, 2006
A Literacy Collaborative Extra
33 News, WYTV in Youngstown, Ohio reports how Struthers City School District recently implemented the Literacy Collaborative program after seeing the positive impact it made in schools from the neighboring Warren City School District.
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative Schools in the News
Posted March 06, 2006
Bexley Schools' Literacy Collaborative Explained
ThisWeekNews.com reports why Terry Black, principal of Montrose Elementary School in Bexley, Ohio, chose Literacy Collaborative for his school.
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative Schools in the News
Posted January 20, 2006
Literacy Program Reaps Reading Gains
This Goffstown News report details of how the Literacy Collaborative program has improved the literacy skills of elementary school students in the Goffstown School District of New Hampshire.
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative Schools in the News
Posted April 13, 2005
Rewriting the Book on Literacy
Scholastic.com reports how Ann Arbor school officials credit Literacy Collaborative for bringing a uniform method to teaching literacy skills, and reducing the achievement gap between African-American and white students from about 30 percent to less than 10 percent.
Filed under: Literacy Collaborative Schools in the News
Posted March 13, 2004