Resources
La Cosecha 2021 Presentations
Transforming Sanchez School: Shared Leadership, Equity and Evidence
Friday, November 12, 11:10 AM-12:30 PM EST
This workshop describes the innovative structures of shared leadership, community engagement, and biliteracy instruction at both preschool and elementary school levels that transformed Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco’s Mission District from a failing dysfunctional school to one that significantly outperformed a large majority of schools with similar demographic characteristics.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Professional Development
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Literacy Club Planning and Evaluation Protocol
The Literacy Club protocol can be used to determine the degree to which each component of the foundational plan has been incorporated into a design for your school/district.
Publication: The Literacy Club
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): framework
National Council on Teacher Quality Databurst: Teacher Leadership Opportunities
Teacher leadership is garnering considerable attention these days. According to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), 35 states now have some formal policy on designating strong teachers as teacher leaders. These emerging policies create opportunities for clear definitions of teacher leadership roles and responsibilities at the district and school levels.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Overview of Ponte & Higgins' PD approach
This brief presentation introduces the highly embedded English language learner professional development (PD) model that Ponte and Higgins developed with mainstream teachers in Honolulu, Hawai'i during a year-long national PD grant, and that is featured in their book. Teachers, teacher educators, PD providers, field supervisors, and coaches can customize this approach to build on the linguistic and cultural diversity they find in their districts and schools.
Publication: Enriching Practice in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
Topic: Professional Development
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Object(s): presentation
Photographs in Color
Color photographs from the book Transforming Sanchez School.
Publication: Transforming Sanchez School
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): photo
Reform Excerpt Chapter 2
Raymond R. Isola and Jim Cummins analyze education reform initiatives during the past 60 years and explore difficult questions, including:
• Do standardized tests boost achievement?
• Does systematic phonics instruction increase reading comprehension?
• Is it reasonable to expect English learners to learn English in just 1 year?
• Is underachievement caused by bad teaching or by low socioeconomic status?
The authors argue that when policy ignores credible education research, there are consequences for vulnerable student populations, especially those from low-income and linguistically diverse communities.
Publication: Transforming Sanchez School
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): reference
Roles of the Principal Excerpt Chapter 3
This book explores the multidimensional roles of the school principal, including instructional leader, resource manager, social architect of learning, and community organizer and activist.
Dr. Isola is the principal who led the successful turnaround effort at Sanchez School over 13 years. Readers will readily relate to his perspective, examples, and stories about:
• the principal’s roles in school transformation,
• the principal’s efforts to balance attention to top-down reform mandates with socioemotional and instructional approaches that lead to real student learning, and
• the principal’s collaborations for shared leadership, family engagement, and teacher agency.
This is a story told by a principal, Raymond R. Isola, and a university researcher, Jim Cummins, to illustrate the dynamic and complex processes of education reform during a turbulent time in the history of education in this country. It is a tale of a principal and his staff making choices in the best interests of their students.
Publication: Transforming Sanchez School
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): reference
Science of Reading Clip
This is a clip of Kathy Escamilla's presentation during the 2021 CABE conference, titled "Developing (Bi)Literacy for Emerging Bilingual Learners: Research Based Approaches".
Publication: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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