Literacy Design Collaborative: A Promising Approach for Building Teacher Capacity to Implement College- and Career-Ready Standards

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 75
  In Roundtable Session: The Teacher Factor: Examining Challenges to Building Teacher Capacity to Implement College- and Career-Ready Standards

Abstract

College and Career Ready Standards in English Language Arts (ELA) present new challenges for content area teachers. With little experience or training in literacy, they are now being asked to infuse reading and writing into their curriculum and pedagogy. A new focus on informational writing is a shift for most ELA teachers as well, who have traditionally prioritized narrative and creating writing. Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) targets this gap by training teachers to create instructional modules that culminate in high quality writing tasks, and build both student content knowledge and literacy skills. This paper shares early results from a mixed methods study of LDC’s implementation in a large urban school district.

Authors

• Scott Epstein, University of California - Los Angeles

• Jia Wang, University of California - Los Angeles

• Joan L. Herman, University of California - Los Angeles

• Julie Haubner, University of California - Los Angeles

• Seth Leon, University of California - Los Angeles