1. How will we ensure that administrators/evaluators understand discourse in a reading/writing classroom?
2. How do you make professional development any time, any place, any where, any pace?
2.1. I don't want PD just posted online- how could it be powerful-inspire collaboration?
2.2. Who is offering professional learning opportunities on literacy criticism?
2.3. How can we provide job-embedded PD? All too often PD is just a drive by and does not build capacity...
2.4. How can we create a robust online/blended professional development experience for teachers?
2.5. WISD/LESA is piloting a blended format next year: four face-to- face, four online meetings. It will look like an online course, but teacher feedback also stated they wanted both synchronous and asynchronous meetings online.
3. How can we ensure our teachers (AND their administrators) have foundational knowledge of teaching reading?
4. Are the works of Shakespeare irrelevant in this day and age?
5. Question: How do we work together as a state to address summer reading loss? Can we eliminate summer reading loss?
6. How can we help teachers to self-assess/reflect on data to more accurately provide relevant pd?
6.1. How can we apply this to distrct leaders as well?
7. How do we convince district leaders of the value of PD--that professional learning is worth releasing teachers from their classrooms for a day (or more)?
8. Question: How can we make sure literacy experiences for students are AUTHENTIC? (rather than just "playing school")
8.1. How do we ensure that literacy events empower learners?
9. How do we get high school educators to shift their practices?
9.1. How do we get them to connect with instructional practices of their K-6, K-8 colleagues?
10. How can we ensure students recognize where they are now, where they are going, and what they need to do to close that gap?
11. Question: How do we usher ALL students into 21st Century literacies?
11.1. Question: What barriers exist?
11.2. Assumptions?
12. We have limited resources in UP-where should we focus our limited literacy resources for biggest impact on students?
12.1. and how does technology add to this conversation?
12.2. How do we address the digital divide in meaningful ways?
