An often overlooked key to success is the need to change hearts, minds and behaviors. The Literacy First Process ensures consistent success by treating the change elements as a core foundation.
In order to build strong and effective change motivation and management capabilities at each site, no matter what the change, your Literacy First consultant guides your Site Leadership Team as it:
- Creates a clear vision of the desired change
- Identifies how your building culture may inhibit the change
- Identifies the power brokers on the staff who will help/hinder the change
- Determines obstacles that must be overcome to implement the change
- Develops strategies to incorporate and maintain true cultural change
This vision, with its carefully defined strategies, will quickly become the site’s implementation plan for accelerating student reading achievement. It will rapidly become contagious across a district.
“Reading is an essential skill that prepares all students for academic and social success in today’s society. Teaching at-risk students to read is a complex task. Literacy First is not a “program”. It is quality staff development that provides our teachers with an organized all-inclusive process to systematically instruct and accelerate student reading abilities.”
Terry B. Grier, Ed.D.
Superintendent
San Diego USD
San Diego, CA