I have asked Suzi Ramos, one of our Esperanza founding board members, to be Esperanza's Literacy Coach. We had a three hour lunch yesterday discussing what we need to do to achieve our two big literacy goals: 1) teach our scholars to read and 2) encourage our scholars to love reading.
We are going to use the CELL/XCELL Model to teach reading using the following components: Shared reading, Read-alouds, Guided Reading, and Independent Reading. There are other things under each of these components we want to incorporate such strategies as reciprocal teaching, tutoring, PALA (our Spanish version of silent sustained reading), literature circles, etc. We also want to have a plan for addressing summer loss. We're excited for each educator who wants to work at Esperanza to choose one of these as an expertise and then teach the rest of us.
We have all kinds of ideas to achieve our second goal to encourage our Esperanza scholars to love reading such as having all kinds of book clubs made up of different Esperanza stakeholders. We want Esperanza to radiate with a love for reading so that anyone entering the school will be able to tell from a "whiff" how much we love reading.
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