Using Literacy Leadership Teams as a Driving Force During Times of Change - Amber Gilliam, Megan Lucas
2021 SIMposium

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This session will focus on the establishment, function, and change of one school’s leadership literacy team through the years. We will discuss the successes pre-pandemic and how the team has been a driving force for the school.  Next, there were many adjustments and flexibility had to happen throughout this school year.  Finally, we will address moving forward in how our team is helping to change our school culture and changes post-pandemic.  Even though this will have a focus on a literacy leadership team, this can apply to ANY leadership team.

Objectives:

Learning Lessons Along the Way

• Teacher led team
• Inclusion of all content areas
• Professional development decisions

Making Adjustments During Times of Change

• Team representatives
• Yearly goals
• Meeting format

Planning Next Steps

• Goal setting
• Measurable targets
• Data collecting for decision making

Literacy Leadership Teams: A Driving Force Behind School Change - Leitzell
2019 SIMposium

2019 SIMposium

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“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller.

Generating positive, on-going school change requires the concerted efforts of a highly functioning leadership team. But when the team gets stuck, change can stall. This session will focus on tips for building successful teams, and participants will begin to create a toolbox of activities for effective team development, problem solving and action planning. 

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Literacy Leadership Teams: Harnessing Positive Energy to Create School Change -Leitzell
2017 KUCRL Learning Conference

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Force Field Activity

Responsibility Matrix Directions

Responsibility Matrix

Think Sheet for Solving Team Problems

Think Worksheet

Literacy Leadership Team: Finding Direction (01:18:28)
2012 SIM Conference
Sue Woodruff, Independent Professional Developer, Muskegon, MI

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Literacy Leadership Team: One of the Keys to Successful Blast Off! - Sue Woodruff (01:20:45)

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School leaders are looking for help in redesigning their approach to literacy in secondary schools. When they look to us, SIM Professional Developers, it is critical that we prepare a school for success. Prior to any journey, much work is done in planning, preparing, educating, and training everyone involved. New routes must be explored. Detours and directions must be examined. The Common Core Standards are causing most schools to reexamine previous routes to literacy as the way is becoming more and more challenging for all students. What SIM Professional Developers and CLC Team Members have learned over the past twelve years is that this very preparation is critical not only to the ongoing school-wide effort, but more importantly to the continuity of literacy work in a school. This session will provide a forum to have dialogue about the roles and responsibilities of a SIM Professional Developer when working with a school, the roles and responsibilities of the team itself, and have some time to take a look at a variety of activities actually used with Literacy Leadership Teams that are now available to the network.

• Activity #1: Understanding Literacy
• Activity #2: Leadership Assets
• Activity #3: CLC Article
• Activity #4: Shaping the Team
• Activity #5: Critical Features
• Activity #6 Teachscape Intro Module
• Activity #7 Double the Work Understanding Working with English Language Learners
  • Frame for Double the Work
  • Double the Work Report to Carnegie Corporation
• Activity #8 Coburn: Components of Successful Change
• Activity #9 Using Leadership Rubric
• Activity #10 Content Area Literacy
  • Report on Content Area Literacy
• Activity #11 Using Data
  • Using Data FRAME
• Activity #12 Linking CERs to Literacy
  • Culture of Literacy Report NASSP
  • Linking CERs to Literacy ppt
• TOC for LLT Activities

SIM for Administrators Institute Resources (2009 and 2010) Rosalind Davenport

• SMARTER Administrators
• Blueprint for Instructional Leadership Course Map for Admin Institute
• 2009 Course Organizer
• 2009 Partner Sign Up Activity
• Question Exploration Guide for Systems Thinking
• Agenda 2010
• Agenda 2011
• Course Map 2011
• Course Org 2011
• FRAME for Adolescent Literacy
• participant note ppt companion
• Question Exploration : Partnership Principles
• Daily Feedback Form
• QE Teaching Behaviors
• Course Organizer 2010
• Frame: Big Four Literacy
• Fullan Sustainability Summary
• SIM to the Rescue - Deshler
• New Division of Labor Q and A
• The Widget Effect booklet
• Question Exploration presentation 2010 , 
• 2011 Day Two ppt
• Big Four Linear Format
• Day Three ppt
• Eight Elements - High School Improvement
• AVID and SIM
• Big FOur Walk Through
• Gaining Traction,
• Knight Teacher Resistance
• Lit Review Bulgren and Schumaker
• SIM for Administrators Brochure
• SIM for Administrators Q and A

Tackling Adolescent Literacy: A Six Step Guide for a School-WIde Approach - Leitzell, Gibbs, Crawford

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