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:

• Learn to engage students and colleagues in collaborative inquiry about their varied reading processes, fostering discipline-specific "metacognitive conversation" in classrooms and professional learning communities.
• Acquire 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.
• Learn to make the complex, invisible processes they use as readers visible to students, helping them develop reading expertise in specific disciplines.
• Learn 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.
• Design 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 2011.

• Five-Day Institute

  Philadelphia, PA
  August 9-13, 2010

• Three-Day Annual Conference

  To be determined: Winter 2011

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:
  • 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.

Registration form (DOC)
Registration form (PDF)

Travel, schedule, and lodging (PDF)

Contact Information

Kate Meissert
510.302.4211
kmeisse@wested.org