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Book SynopsisThe Game Plan is the first professional book that gives secondary administrators, literacy coaches, and other instructional leaders a step-by-step blueprint for implementing the Common Core Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies, Science, and the Technical Subjects and other college and career readiness standards. The book provides principals, district supervisors, instructional coaches, and other leaders with a coherent, realistic plan to build a school-wide culture of literacy instruction, data use, and PLC-based cycles of reflection, planning, and action. This multi-year plan is built on a continuous cycle of improvement philosophy and is modular in nature, allowing leaders to rearrange, substitute, and modify the plan to meet the needs of any secondary school. Organized in two parts, the first section of The Game Plan lays out a semester-by-semester flexible configuration for introducing, implementing, and supporting the literacy standards over the course of six full schoo
Trade ReviewThe Game Plan: A Multi-Year Blueprint to Create a School Culture of Literacy and Data Analysis is a professional resource intended for instructional leaders to implement a six-year plan of action for implementing the Common Core Standards of literacy in the areas of social studies, science, and technical subjects. . . .This step-by-step guide includes everything needed to develop a culture of literacy when implementing the Common Core Standards. Recommended. * American Reference Books Annual *
In an era of educational quick fixes that do not work, the authors of The Game Plan offer a sane, research-based, multi-year professional development approach focused on improving literacy across all content areas in a secondary school. It is a must-read, call-to-action guidebook for all principals and instructional coaches who want to create a culture of continuous learning among their teachers and support staff. -- Peggy J. Saunders, PhD, professor and director of the MEd program, teacher education department, Weber State University
The Game Plan is a completely accessible and very well designed guide for school leaders to meaningfully implement literacy instruction across all content areas. The framework is straightforward and flexible. As a former school district professional developer, I found that the challenge was always finding the tool that will "sell" the work with clarity and focused goals that the team can rally around. This is one of those tools. -- John Meisner, assistant professor of education at Southern Utah University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 How to Use This Book Chapter 2 Principles of Professional Learning Chapter 3 College and Career Readiness Standards Chapter 4 Year 1: Summer Chapter 5 Year 1: Fall Semester Chapter 6 Year 1: Spring Semester Chapter 7 Year 2: Summer Chapter 8 Year 2: Fall Semester Chapter 9 Year 2: Spring Semester Chapter 10 Year 3: Summer, Fall, and Spring Semesters Chapter 11 Years 4-6 Appendix A The Play Book: Literacy Strategies for the Content Area Classroom The Starting Line Strategy Map Text Structure Text Annotation Academic Vocabulary GIST Four Square Notes Prompt Analysis Text-Dependent Questioning Silent Conversation Save the Last Word for Me Anticipation Guides RAFT LIFT OUT CRAVAT 2-3 Column Notes Show and Tell Vocabulary Text Mingle Analyzing Visual Text Nonstop Writing Carousel Brainstorming Vocabulary Vignettes Discussion Grids Vocabulary Tableaux Appendix B Coach’s Corner: Instructional Leadership Resources Literacy Kickoff Meeting Planning Grid Focus Strategy Reflection Guide Halftime Meeting Planning Grid Support Planning Grid Leadership Reflection Protocol Data Summary Plan PLC Meeting Agenda Literacy Strategy Classroom Observation Form Teacher Self-Evaluation Form PLC Self-Evaluation Form Appendix C Moving Up to the Big Leagues: Expanding Literacy Beyond the School Level
