One of the things I really want to permeate our entire network is the concept of every teacher being a literacy teacher.

It doesn’t matter if you teach math. At least 50% of your students’ math exams are reading-dependent. They can’t prove they know the math w/o reading skills.

Your science exams go nowhere if your students can’t read, analyze, and synthesize informational texts. They can’t answer questions about conclusions from data sets if they cannot make sense of the writing on the page.

Literacy permeates every subject. Period.

When I started my career, I was on a teaching team w/a math, science, and SS teacher. They asked me to help them bc our students couldn’t get through the readings to their content. I developed some tools, and we all taught our students with them.

We had THE strongest team.

The fact that they realized it themselves and asked me (the English/reading teacher) to help them teach reading in their classroom >>>>>>

Our students noticed immediately that we were all on the same page. Honestly it was