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Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Plan

STATE PROFILE

Utah

Team Name

|Birth to Grade 12: Promises to Keep |

Responsible Agency

|Utah State Office of Education |

Team Membership

|Membership Types and Numbers |

|A State that receives a Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy formula grant establishes a Literacy Team comprised of individuals with |

|expertise in literacy development and education for children birth to school entry; kindergarten through grade 5; grades 6 through 8; and |

|grades 8 through 12. Provide the name of the Comprehensive Literacy Team members for each age /grade category and type of expertise. |

|Birth-school entry |Sue Okroy |

|K-5th Grade |Tiffany Hall |

|6th grade - 12th grade |Christelle Estrada |

|Managing/implementing literacy programs |Tiffany Hall |

|Evaluation of literacy programs |Sue Okroy, Tiffany Hall, Christelle Estrada |

|Planning and implementing Response-to-Intervention | |

|Screening and performance measurement | |

|Validated interventions and instruction for struggling readers, English learners and students |Linda Oda, Jeff Ojeda |

|with disabilities | |

|Professional development for principals, teachers and coaches |Sydney Dickson |

|Teacher preparation and State licensure/accreditation in literacy development and instruction |Travis Rawlings |

|Other members and/or experts required | |

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Applicable Standards

|Birth – School Entry |Kindergarten – 5th Grade |6th Grade – 12th Grade |

|Utah’s Early Learning Guidelines for Birth to |CCSS |CCSS |

|Age Three | | |

|Utah’s Early Childhood Core Standards for |Utah Effective Teaching Standards |Utah Effective Teaching Standards |

|preschool years 3 and 4 and feed directly to | | |

|the Utah Core Standards, based on the Common | | |

|Core State Standards (CCSS) | | |

| |Utah Educational Leadership Standards |Utah Educational Leadership Standards |

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Team Activities

|Proposed Implementation Plans |

|The following analysis reflects only priorities cited as program requirements in the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program State |

|Formula Grant Application. Also include any additional priorities addressed as part of a broader plan. (Reference page numbers for each |

|priority in your Plan) |

|U.S. Department of Education Priorities |Satisfied |Details in the Literacy Plan |

|Address the literacy needs and improve the learning outcomes| |Adopted standards for preschool and K-12 student learning that |

|of children from birth through Grade 12 | |focuses on promoting literacy instruction |

| | |“Promises to Keep” commits the state to striving for 100% of |

| | |students reading at grade level by the end of grade 3 |

|Address the literary needs and improve the learning | |“Promises to Keep” commits the state to striving for 100% of |

|outcomes of disadvantaged students, such as students who | |students reading at grade level by the end of grade 3 |

|are English Language Learners (ELL) and students with | |Developing increased access to ELL Endorsement programs in |

|disabilities | |ensure that all teachers have the skills needed to help |

| | |students be successful |

|Include the use of clear content standards in the areas of | |Adopted standards for preschool and K-12 student learning that |

|pre-literacy, reading, and writing. Also use curriculum and | |focuses on promoting literacy instruction |

|instructional material that align with State standards | |State Recommended Instructional Materials System (RIMS) |

| | |database includes reviews and recommendations for all |

| | |curriculum materials based on their alignment with Core |

| | |Standards |

|Enable more data-based decision-making | |State data teams are creating better teacher-school-community |

| | |access to data at several levels to inform instruction |

|Provide evidence-based teacher preparation and professional | |Moving to OnTrack, a comprehensive online teacher learning |

|development | |management system to create easier access to vetted |

| | |professional learning opportunities |

| | |Implemented Core Academy for K-12 literacy and K-10 mathematics|

| | |for more than 8,000 teachers using evidence-based strategies |

| | |for teacher learning |

|Use coherent assessment and screening systems that are | |Requests for Proposals (RFP) out for common assessments |

|aligned with State standards | |State-wide formative assessment question bank revised to align |

| | |with new Core Standards |

|Implement targeted interventions | |The Literacy Plan does not address the implementation of |

| | |interventions |

|Propose use of technology to address student learning | |Moving to state-wide use of open educational resources (OER) |

|challenges | |materials |

| | |Increased funding for technology to support K-3 and K-1 reading|

| | |development |

| | |All state required testing moving to online |

|Action Plans |

|(List major implementation activities; include page numbers where activities are referenced in Comprehensive Literacy Plan) |

|Birth to Age 5 (13) |

|Education pediatricians-hold a summit; funding for training and implementation. |

|Reach out to religious organization and educate them about early brain development and early literacy |

|Scale Welcome Baby and Reach Out and Read statewide; |

|Collect better information as to what is happening in local communities to encourage early literacy |

|Connect with doctors and hospitals; develop a list of questions to accompany an Ages in Stages assessment |

|Hold a summit for healthcare; childcare, and preschool providers to educate and provide materials, information on best practices |

|Educate lawmakers; Provide online Child Development Associate (CDA) certification that is interactive |

|Make school district CDA sources available to local providers |

|Research best practices in professional development and bring to scale statewide |

|K to Grade 5 (18) |

|Adopt or create a common assessment |

|Require universities to prepare teachers to teach, understand tests and measurements, consume research findings, and get a common state |

|teacher preparation curriculum at the undergraduate level |

|Reform Teacher Education Programs at Universities to receive initial state licensure |

|Require new licenses or endorsements per above |

|Bring cohesion to teacher development services and provide consistent direction and funding to support the needs of literacy learners, |

|increase teacher quality, mandate proportion of teacher education faculty to provide necessary state-wide PD for state endorsements for course|

|cost and not full tuition with additional legislative funding |

|Grade 6-12 (23) |

|Adopt or create a common assessment |

|Require universities to prepare teachers to teach, understand tests and measurements, consume research findings, and get a common state |

|teacher preparation curriculum at the undergraduate level |

|Reform Teacher Education Programs at Universities to receive initial state licensure |

|Require new licenses or endorsements per above |

|Bring cohesion to teacher development services and provide consistent direction and funding to support the needs of literacy learners, |

|increase teacher quality, mandate proportion of teacher education faculty to provide necessary state-wide PD for state endorsements for course|

|cost and not full tuition with additional legislative funding |

|Increase in amount of informational text: setting minimum expected percentage. |

|Professional development for all teachers in using informational and digital text. |

|PD for all teachers in how to explicitly teach writing. |

|PD for core teachers in using informational/content text and writing |

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|Leadership and Sustainability |

|(Activities leadership teams undertake to develop and sustain implementation of their SRCL Comprehensive Literacy Plans. Examples include |

|collaborative partnerships, communication strategies for sharing information with partners, and shared tasks among the leaders.) |

|This portion of the Literacy Plan is currently under development |

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State Comprehensive Literacy Plan Website

|None |

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