1. “Follow Up to the National Community Literacy Summit” May 19, 2007 Tanya Shuy tshuy@nifl.gov

2. Steering Committee  Amy Arebreton Public Private Venture  Jay Connor The Collaboratory for Community Support  Douglas Marriott Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles  John Mitterholzer The Cleveland Foundation  Katherine Pavey Discovery Alliance  Douglas Perkins Vanderbilt University

3. Summit Focus  Literacy Instruction  Performance Measurement

4. Literacy Instruction  The Essential Components of Literacy For Programs Dr. Timothy Shanahan  Literacy Instruction Across the Lifespan Dr. Barbara Foorman Dr. Daphne Greenberg

5. 5 Keys to Literacy Success Across the Lifespan  Amount of teaching  Content of teaching  Quality of teaching  Student Motivation  Alignment and Support

6. Community Literacy Programs for Children  A program is only as good as its implementation  Ongoing assessment for student progress  Intensity of tutoring matters  Helpful to have a knowledgeable reading expert to coordinate & supervise

7. Community Literacy Programs for Adults  Assessment needed for strengths & weaknesses  Need to take into account learners’ goals  Learning takes time  Learners tend to attend, stop, & then come back or go to a different location  Direct, explicit instruction is needed  Sequential instruction

8. Literacy & Mentoring  Susan Taylor with Essence Magazine and Essence Cares Initiative  Inspire a national mentoring movement  Recruited national partners and is working with them to introduce literacy skill building into mentoring

9. Broadening the Role of Literacy in Communities: Experiences from the Field  Helene Kramer Good Schools For All, Buffalo Reads  Carl Guerriere Greater Hartford Literacy Council

10. Buffalo Reads  Developed collaborative model  Feasibility Study (different outcome measures)  Goals for age appropriate literacy, adult literacy, & providers  Literacy infused everywhere

11. Greater Hartford Literacy Council  Strategic partners  Assets & Needs Assessment  Develop quality standards for literacy services  Baseline report – “Status of Literacy in Greater Hartford” with recommendations for action

12. Measuring Effectiveness  Patrick Gaston with Verizon Foundation  Need to state what the learner “learned” in terms of literacy advancement/achievement  Verizon Lifespan Literacy Matrix

13. Performance Measurement in Community Literacy Harry Hatry  Outcome sequence chart  Service quality characteristics  Categories of data sources  Data collection procedures

14. Challenges in Measuring and Collecting Data for Evaluation  Petrice Sams-Abiodun, Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy  Douglas Marriott, Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles

15. When the Community is the Unit of Analysis  Diversity of providers  Range of assessments & instructional methods  Reporting requirements vary  Literacy Alliance Evaluation – strength of partnerships & collaboration plus integration of best practices

16. Literacy @ Work  Data measurement with training  Public/private partnership of organizations  Challenges – skills assessment, performance measurement, data management

17. Next Steps for the Institute  Special 2008 Issue of Community Literacy Journal  Special Topics Discussion List – Topic - Community Literacy coming soon

18. Sources for further information  National Institute for Literacy Community Literacy Summit page http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/community/communityliteracy.html http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/community/communityliteracy.html  Special Topics Discussion List http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/dicsussionswww.nifl.gov  Community Literacy Journal http://www.communityliteracy.org/  Outcome Indicators http://www.urban.org/center/cnp/projects/outcomeindicators.cfm