Key Initiative: Literacy

Market Conditions and Funding What’s the big deal?

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Who Are these students? ESL/ELL Striving Readers Learning Disabilities Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.5

What’s the impact of not addressing these students’ needs? Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.6

Initiatives ESL/ELL (226.5M) Student Success (11.2M) OFIP (22.5M) Student Engagement (1.2M) Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.7

Decision Making Criteria Progress Engagement Inquiry Critical Thinking Cross-Curricular Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.8

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Key Contacts and Responsibilities Who holds the key?

REMIX Curriculum Consultants Resource Teachers Principals Teachers 11

BIG IDEA ELL Consultants Principals ELL Teachers Classroom Teachers 12

Making the conversation bloom … differentiating our Unique Positioning Statement(s)

REMIX Jeffrey Wilhelm has devoted his career to helping striving readers. His most recent research demonstrates how inquiry environments give striving readers a powerful context for literacy learning. Douglas Fisher’s recent research has focused on vocabulary development strategies for work best with striving readers. So when we heard a need from school districts for material for striving readers in grades 7-8, we brought these two researchers together to lead the development. Would you like to learn more about REMIX and how it can help striving readers progress in their reading development? 14

REMIX Students who have fallen behind in their reading development present significant challenges for teachers. They are often unengaged and unmotivated. They lack confidence and feel somewhat marginalized. They require a great deal of teacher support because appropriate materials are difficult to find. Many teachers have asked us for material that will address the specific needs of these students and allow them to develop their reading abilities more independently and collaboratively. Would you like to learn more about a new series designed for students in grades 7-8 who are reading at a grade 1-3 level. 15

BIG IDEA There is general agreement among educators and researchers that English language learners will acquire academic language most successfully when we teach language and academic content together. This approach uses big ideas and inquiry questions to expand students’ minds, to generate intellectual excitement, and to build up students’ language and literacy skills as powerful tools for learning and communication. Pearson has recently developed a resource for grades 4-6 that helps teachers teach Science and Social Studies content to English language learners. Would you like to learn more about this new Canadian series? 16

BIG IDEA Teachers of English language learners have long faced a dilemma: “How can we teach challenging curriculum content to students whose knowledge of the language of instruction is still quite limited?” This dilemma led Pearson to explore ways that resources could address key concepts in science and social studies in a more visual way and how language and content learning could be be integrated, allowing ELL students, with teacher support, to participate more fully in science and social studies units and learn concepts alongside the all the other students in the classroom. 17

Seven Steps Special Considerations around the Caution.

Priorities Supplementary vs comprehensive solution What role do resources play in their initiatives? 19

Sales and Marketing Supports

REMIX Website Brochures Samplers Research White Paper (Oct) Case Studies (Nov/Dec) 21

BIG IDEA Resource Training (Sep) Website (Sep) Flyer (Sep) Samplers (Oct) 22

Highlights from our Integrated Plans

REMIX Check-in with district contacts Focus on large middle schools Focus on low-performing schools Work through purchasing departments 24

BIG IDEA Build awareness with ELL consultants Identify schools with high ELL populations and execute targeted campaigns Work through purchasing departments 25