A State K-2 Literacy Initiative: Getting Better at Getting Better

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

State level policy actors, including the commissioner, will share (1) strategically gathered comprehensive data on students’ literacy proficiencies and the nature of that data, (2) how they have used those data to make informed policy and programmatic decisions, and (3) how they have communicated those data and other findings from state-wide analyses of observational data of classroom instruction and focus group interviews with stakeholders in a way that motivates change in practice.

Content Area

• Area 4: Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and Public Policy

Chair

• Anne McGill-Franzen, University of Tennessee

Discussants

• George G Hruby, University of Kentucky

• Deborah Rowe, Vanderbilt University

• Anne McGill-Franzen, University of Tennessee

Individual Presentations

• Strategic Plan - Candice McQueen, Tennessee Department of Education

• Research Methodologies - Nate Schwartz, Tennessee Department of Education

• Tactical Actions - Karen Hollett, Tennessee Department of Education

• The Academic Perspective - Victoria Risko, Vanderbilt University