English Language Arts
The SCCOE offers English language arts workshops, institutes and conferences for K-12 educators. Our mission is to provide instructional and other support services in English language arts to raise the literacy skills of all students in hopes of closing the achievement gap in Santa Clara County. Our overarching goal is to ensure schools and districts have the capacity to provide universal access of grade-level standards and core and supplemental curriculum materials to all students. We seek dialogue with districts and schools so that we will be informed advocates for our schools at both county and state levels.
Services
- Customized professional development services for schools upon demand for all areas of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, including:
- Gradual Release of Responsibility
- Universal Access
- Transferable and Transportable Strategies
- Striving Readers and Writers
- Formative and Summative Assessments
- Data-Teams/PLCs
- Professional development for choosing and implementing adopted textbooks
- Curriculum Leadership Council
- Verification Process for Special Settings
- Expository Reading and Writing Course
- Step Up to Writing
Featured Videos and Discussion Guides
- Meaningful Assessment Dialogue
- Doug Fisher (Gradual Release of Responsibility)
- Kate Kinsella (Developing Academic Language Using Sentence Frames)
- Deborah Pickering (Implementation of works by Robert Marzano)
Resources
- R/LA framework
- SCCOE professional development calendar
- State Board adopted publisher's list
- Adoptions by district
- Core literature reading lists by district
- Sample writing prompts
- Sample writing rubrics
- Sample pacing guides
Date last updated: August 23, 2010
