The Game Plan: A Multi-Year Blueprint to Create a School Culture of Literacy and Data Analysis - Softcover

Kennett, Daron W.; Suzanne Rathke, Kim; Van Brunt, Kristin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475815166 ISBN 13: 9781475815160

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

The 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 school years; this section also includes detailed guidelines for creating a comprehensive assessment plan to gather, analyze, and act on school data. The second section includes instructional tools and strategies for reading, writing, vocabulary, and other aspects of the literacy standards that teachers in all subject areas can use.

About this title

About the Author:

Daron W. Kennett is the English Language Arts and English Learner Assessment Specialist at the Utah State Office of Education. He also teaches literacy endorsement courses through a number of local universities. Prior to this, Daron taught English language arts, reading, and ESL in public schools and served as the ELA supervisor in his local school district.

Kristin van Brunt has been an English Language Arts teacher for the Davis County School District in northern Utah for the past 21 years, and she currently teaches at Viewmont High School. She has extensive experience working not only with secondary students, but also with ELA teachers. In conjunction with the Utah State Office of Education, Kristin has facilitated professional learning related to the Common Core State Standards throughout the state, in both face-to-face and online formats.

Kim S. Rathke has spent 17 years in the classroom teaching Language Arts/Journalism to 7th through 10th graders. She is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescent Language Arts as well as holding endorsements in Reading, Gifted and Talented Education, and English as a Second Language. Kim has a Bachelor of Science in English/Journalism Teaching with a Minor in History Teaching; and a Masters of Education in Secondary Education with an emphasis on Gifted and Talented Education. Her thesis involved Tracking Student Writing Using Online Essay Assessment.

Review:

The 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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1475815166
• ISBN 13: 9781475815160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300