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January 20, 2006

C O N T E N T S

1) PD Corner: Becoming a Literacy Leader
2) Connect with your ELLs
3) Author Conversations: Bruce Morgan
4) Building anti-bullying partnerships with families
5) Engage students to improve adolescent literacy

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1) PD Corner: Becoming a Literacy Leader
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*January Quote of the Month*

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
--John F. Kennedy

In the new book, Becoming a Literacy Leader, Jennifer Allen 
explores her role as literacy specialist, staff developer, and 
study group facilitator, working side-by-side with new and veteran 
teachers to support the latest literacy teaching practices.

This book provides a portrait of successful schoolwide literacy 
and PD practices for principals, literacy specialists, coaches, 
and anyone in a leadership role. You will find practical 
suggestions for collaborative change, coaching, intervention, 
fluency, assessment, and designing a literacy room for meetings 
and professional development.  

Becoming a Literacy Leader is now available in print, and you can 
also review the entire text on-line:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0419.asp?r=n81

Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change
Jennifer Allen * 152 pp/paper * $18.00
Foreword by Karen Szymusiak and Franki Sibberson
http://www.stenhouse.com/0419.asp?r=n81

The Web has a wealth of resources for new school and district 
literacy leaders. Here are two sites that provide excellent 
starting points for discussing leadership and taking action.

In "A Blueprint for Literacy Leadership," the Children's Literacy 
Initiative identifies nine key areas of knowledge and suggests 
resources for achieving them:

http://www.cliontheweb.org/principals_blueprint.html

New Zealand's Literacy Leadership Project includes tools for 
schools and districts to systematically tackle the development of 
a schoolwide vision. The goals and suggested action plans can be 
found here:

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/literacy_numeracy/lit_lead_tools_1_8_e.php

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2) Connect with your ELLs
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The current issue of NEA Today features strategies for teaching 
English language learners, including a series of tips from 
Stenhouse author Kathleen Fay:

http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0601/coverstory.html

You can also view a three-minute video of Kathleen using 
storytelling to engage students in a kindergarten classroom:

http://www.nea.org/neatodayextra/ell.html

Kathleen Fay is the co-author (with Suzanne Whaley) of Becoming 
One Community: Reading and Writing with English Language Learners. 
For details, including the full text of Chapter 1, visit this 
page:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0368.asp?r=n81

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3) Author Conversations: Bruce Morgan
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Find your passion, define your values, and communicate them to 
parents and others. That's the advice of classroom teacher and 
Stenhouse author Bruce Morgan, in the latest addition to our 
Author Conversations series:

http://www.stenhouse.com/conversations.asp?r=n81

Bruce is the author of Writing Through the Tween Years. You can 
read Chapter 1, "Understanding Tween Writers," on-line:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0406.asp?r=n81

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4) Building anti-bullying partnerships with families
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In the winter issue of the New Horizons for Learning journal, Les 
Parsons writes about how families can play a key role in whole-
school anti-bullying efforts:

http://www.stenhouse.com/rdparsons.htm

Les Parsons is the author of the new book, Bullied Teacher, 
Bullied Student: How to Recognize the Bullying Culture in Your 
School and What to Do About It. Browse the entire text of this 
book on-line:

http://www.stenhouse.com/8190.asp?r=n81

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5) Engage students to improve adolescent literacy
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The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) recently 
published "Using Student Engagement to Improve Adolescent 
Literacy." This 20-page guide explains how student engagement is 
linked to achievement, and includes concrete steps that schools 
and districts can take in the areas of curriculum, instruction, 
assessment, and professional development. You can download the 
entire guide here:

http://www.ncrel.org/litweb/adolescent/qkey10/

This is the latest in a series of "Quick Key" guides from NCREL 
designed to help educators understand and implement the 
requirements of NCLB. To access the complete series, follow this 
link:

http://www.ncrel.org/policy/curve/resource.htm#resources
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