Leadership Institutes in Reading Apprenticeship: Middle and High School Focus

Who Should Participate

The Leadership Institute in Reading Apprenticeship is a training-of-trainers experience that prepares school or district teams to lead professional development in Reading Apprenticeship in their local communities. Team members should have leadership experience in literacy, subject area curriculum and instruction, or professional development.

Learning Goals

Leadership Institute in Reading Apprenticeship participants will:

• Participants Llearn to engage students and colleagues in collaborative inquiry about their varied reading processes, fostering discipline-specific "metacognitive conversation" in classrooms and professional learning communities.
• Participants aAcquire an in-depth understanding of Reading Apprenticeship as an instructional framework and the skills to implement the framework in classrooms and in professional development with colleagues.
• Participants Llearn to make the complex, invisible processes they use as readers visible to students, helping them develop reading expertise in specific disciplines.
• Teachers Llearn to make changes in their classroom practice, building on students’ strengths as readers and learners, and providing students greater access to text for learning in the content areas, all of which result in increased student engagement and efficacy in reading to learn.
• Participating teams Ddesign and get feedback on an implementation plan to disseminate Reading Apprenticeship in their school or district in ways that respond to local literacy goals and needs.

Formats and Dates

The two-part institute includes eight days of professional development: a five-day Institute and the three-day Annual Conference in Reading Apprenticeship early in 2010.

• Date and Location for Five-Day Institute:

  Philadelphia, PA
  

• Middle & High School Focus:

  Philadelphia, PA
  August 9-13, 2010

• Date and Location for Three-Day Annual Conference:

  To be determined. Please check this website for updates.

Site-Based Leadership Institutes in Reading Apprenticeship may be scheduled at your site with a minimum of 25 participants.

Cost and Included Resources

The cost of $4,000 per participant includes:

• 8 days of professional development
• Comprehensive set of course materials including:
  • A copy of our best-selling book, Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms
  • Student and classroom case study videos
  • Facilitators' guides for video cases and other key professional development practices
  • Binder of training materials and reproducible resources
  • Binder of readings
• Membership in an active online discussion group with access to download updated training materials and other resources
• Lunches and continental breakfasts.

Lodging and travel are not included, but group rates at selected local hotels are available.

Graduate Credit: Five quarter-hours of graduate credit are available at additional cost.

Federal Funding
Reading Apprenticeship training qualifies as "High-Quality Professional Development" for: Title I, Part A; Title II, Part A; Title III, Part A; Title V, Part A; and Title VII, Part A.

Registration

Registration forms will be accepted in the order received. Application deadline is one month before date of institute or when institute enrollment is filled.

Download registration form for High School/Middle School LIRA (DOC)
Download registration form for High School/Middle School LIRA (PDF)

Download registration form for Community College LIRA (DOC)
Download registration form for Community College LIRA (PDF)

LIRA travel, schedule, and lodging 2009 (PDF)

Contact Information

Jana Bouc
510.302.4245
jbouc@wested.org