I love Doug Fisher!! He was one of my professors and he has done some work with some of my schools here. But, I don't think that middle school he works with has 90% scoring proficient. It is still a low performing school. I wonder if he was talking about the benchamark assessments they give? Hmm. No matter, because he is great, and a gret speaker. I will have to check that book out since I am now going to be working with content area teachers on literacy strategies.
On 12/13/06, Ginny White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Beverly Maddox wrote: > > Such heartening stories--our principal is calling for reading in teh > > content areas, but I'm not sure he understands exactly what he > > wants--and I know teacher resistance is high in about half the > > faculty, who feel pressured to "cover" their curricula. > > Bev, our principal asked us to create Reading Partnerships this year, > pairing language arts teachers with content teachers in small groups of > 3 or 4. I wrote a little about our efforts previously. We are using > Doug Fisher's Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work as a > book study with good responses thus far. Doug spoke at FCTE in October > and was quite impressive. They transformed a low-performing school in > San Diego to a 90-90-90 school (90% free/reduced lunch, 90% minority, > 90% at or above proficiency on testing). The book is very > reader-friendly and includes examples in each chapter of how a reading > strategy was applied in various content areas (ie ways to "cover" the > curricula by increasing comprehension of concepts). You might want to > take a look at it. > > I hope to come to Little Rock some time this year - will let you know > if I get there. > > Ginny White > Fernandina Beach Middle (FL) > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
