Description: The Curriculum Training Institute helps support K-12 ELA teachers teaching in high priority and MiExcel schools. The Institute is designed to help teachers formatively assess and adjust instruction in the contexts of a yearlong curriculum design (MAISA Units will provide a model from which teachers may adapt). Teachers in the training will receive on-going support from Oakland Schools ELA coaches across the instructional year. Evidence based strategies with proven results in high priority contexts, resources, and student artifacts will be shared.

The Curriculum Institute, a 2 year cohort, aims to support teachers into:

• a professional learning network focusing on reflective practice
• understanding and enacting a Gradual Release instructional framework with embedded on-going formative assessment practices
• effectively translating formative assessment data and adjusting instruction
• building and sustaining student literacy habits that boost student achievement

Design: 2 year cohort w/introductory and advancing

• Cohort 1: building foundational literacy and formative assessment practices
• Cohort 2: extending embedded formative assessment practices and evidence based literacy strategies known to engage and accelerate student achievement

Lead Facilitators:

Susan Wilson-Golab, Oakland Schools Secondary Literacy Consultant

Les Howard, Oakland Schools Elementary Literacy Consultant

Linda Denstaedt, National Writing Project Teacher Consultant

Erik Skogsberg, MSU secondary literacy teacher educator & researcher

For further information, contact Oakland Schools Literacy Consultant Susan Wilson-Golab at [email protected].