Take an active role in achieving and sustaining literacy improvement in your PLC. An essential leadership resource in the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this valuable guide outlines how to drive literacy instruction in a secondary setting. Learn how to support your collaborative teams, gather and analyze data, and ensure students can read and write at or beyond grade level.

This book offers leadership strategies for secondary literacy education that works:

• Understand the challenges of leading literacy and the importance of using those challenges as opportunities for change.
• Launch your journey to become a literacy leader with effective listening, learning, and engagement in active leadership.
• Recognize the importance of data to new literacy-focused initiatives, reading instruction, and writing strategies.
• Establish effective professional development and differentiated instructional strategies for effective literacy instruction across academic disciplines.
• Measure literacy growth and sustain an environment of continual literacy learning to improve student learning outcomes.

Contents:
Introduction: The Need for Literacy Instruction
Chapter 1: Confronting the Challenges of Leading Literacy
Chapter 2: Starting With Listening, Learning, and Leading With Action
Chapter 3: Leading With Data
Chapter 4: Leading Professional Learning
Chapter 5: Leading Instruction
Chapter 6: Leading Intervention
Chapter 7: Measuring Growth and Sustainability
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index