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Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education 3 Resources  Within the next few weeks, resources for this initiative will be posted here:  Also, please refer to the Boston Public School’s Web site:  

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Page 1: Massachusetts Early Literacy and Learning Conference Early Literacy and Learning Action Plan (ELLAP) – Inaugural Conference January 13, 2016 Marlborough

Massachusetts Early Literacy and Learning ConferenceEarly Literacy and Learning Action

Plan (ELLAP) – Inaugural Conference

January 13, 2016Marlborough

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Housekeeping Items Severe shellfish and nut allergies Schedule for day Lunch concession or local restaurants

(please refer to restaurant list provided) Evaluation PDPs Schedule of upcoming meetings Login for wireless Internet

(january/january) Personal belongings are your

responsibility

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Resources Within the next few weeks, resources for

this initiative will be posted here: http://www.doe.mass.edu/candi

Also, please refer to the Boston Public School’s Web site:

http://bpsearlychildhood.weebly.com/curriculum-guides.html

http://bpsearlychildhood.weebly.com/focus-on-k2.html

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Background Information

Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education

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Massachusetts’ K-12 Literacy Vision

Every student will experience purposeful engagement in learning that draws on thinking, reading, writing, speaking and listening across the content areas in order to prepare them for college, career and civic life.

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Massachusetts’ Early Literacy and Learning Vision Learning through an integrated curricula

approach and developmentally appropriate project-based experiences, students’ individualized needs are consistently considered as they experience a respectful, engaging and empowering culture, which enables them to become self-directed learners, critical readers, writers, thinkers, and collaborative workers.

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Principle 1: A strong culture of a learning community exists in the classroom. Positive, safe, respectful

climate Student collaboration Classroom workshop model

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

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Principle 2: Each student is empowered to learn and work with others and has opportunities for choice and an authentic voice in their learning. Students think critically and

creatively. Students are given choices. Students have an authentic voice.

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

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Principle 2: Each student is empowered to learn and work with others and has opportunities for choice and an authentic voice in their learning.

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

“You can either have your learner’s attention or they can be creating meaning…. but never both at the same time.”

“Learners have to learn to create meaning for themselves.”Eric Jensen

Brain-Based Learning, p. 196

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Principle 3: Foundational literacy practices are intentionally interwoven within authentic meaningful contexts.

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

When integrated thematic classroom learning connects students through authentic life-related content, students tend to be more fully engaged; they deepen their conceptual knowledge, and they double the amount of information learned, as indicated by research.

Barto, 2015; Grigorenko, 2007; Erlaurer, 2003; Given, 2002; Bower, 1973, 1981

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Principle 3: Foundational literacy practices are intentionally interwoven within authentic meaningful contexts. Four Questions:

1. What can we integrate in purposeful ways?

2. Why is it important for students to know it and how can we help students make meaningful connections in the real world to this new learning?

3. How can we engage students in authentic learning?

4. How do we want students to show us their learning through a performance-based application?

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

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Principle 4: Each student actively engages in meaningful ways to understand, retain and integrate new learning.

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

Educators have learned from cognitive science and brain-based research that learning environments which stimulate or “feed the brain” have a positive impact on learning and on students’ reading levels.

“Active participation supports the development of each child’s ways of thinking, talking, knowing and acting.”

Grigorenko, 2007; Erlauer, 2003; Jenson, 1998 Literacy for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Education, p.16

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Principle 4: Each student actively engages in meaningful ways to understand, retain and integrate new learning.

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

Active student engagement fulfills the naturally curious mind, builds confidence and increases student efficacy, strengthens oral language vocabulary and skills, and deepens students’ conceptual understandings.

Engel, 2011; von Stunn, et al, 2011; Medina, 2008, LeDoux, 1996; Squire, 1992; Matthews and Bulbulian, 1976

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Principle 4: Each student actively engages in meaningful ways to understand, retain and integrate new learning. Three strong elements educators

use to create and elevate meaning:

Emotion Patterns Relevance

Robert Sylwester, A Celebration of Neurons- An Educator’s Guide to the Human Brain

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

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Principle 5: Each student’s progress in literacy skills, concepts and strategies is monitored and adjusted so that instructional decisions are timely and appropriately accommodate student differences and needs.

Massachusetts’ Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

Teachers who use ongoing assessment to individualize instruction may reduce the school readiness gap for young students at risk, deliver more effective instruction, and have students who achieve better outcomes.

Akers, L.,et al,2015; Fuchs, Lynns., et al, 199; Al Otaiba, Stephen, et al, 2011

Students who were taught by teachers who used assessment for learning achieved in six or seven months what would otherwise take a year; these improvements appeared to be consistent across countries-Canada, England, Israel, Portugal and the United States; these gains even held up on externally mandated standardized tests.

Black and William, 1998; William, Lee, Harrison and Black, 2004

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Five Principles of Early Literacy and Learning

Review1. A strong culture of a learning community exists in the

classroom.

2. Each student is empowered to learn and work with others and has opportunities for choice and authentic voice in their learning.

3. Foundational literacy practices are intentionally interwoven within authentic meaningful contexts.

4. Each student actively engages in meaningful ways to understand, retain and integrate new learning.

5. Each students’ progress in literacy skills, concepts and strategies is monitored and adjusted so that instructional decisions are timely and appropriately accommodate student differences and needs.

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Questions/Contact Info Please e-mail Alice Barton at: abarton@

doe.mass.edu and she will respond to your questions/concerns.

Feedback Appreciated

PDP Summary30 hours if you attend 2 conferences and 2 regional PLN meetings

Intensive Training