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Reading Aloud to Close the Literacy Gap
Impoverished children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of vocabulary deficiency. Hearing and learning rich vocabulary in the early years is key for children to develop the reading comprehension necessary for later grades. Continued
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One Day in Three Blueprint for Early Literacy® Classrooms
Vignettes of CLI’s pre-kindergarten curriculum at work in Philadelphia, Newark and Camden. Continued |
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| Volume 13 Spring/Summer 2006 |
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Making Philadelphia's Fell Elementary a Model School
The goal is to increase student literacy scores from the city average of 35% to the state average of 63% by 2010. Continued
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Initial Support from Wachovia Leverages a Long-term Commitment to Blueprint for Early Literacy
CLI Program Increases Language and Literacy Scores in Lancaster (PA) School District Pre-Kindergartens, 2003-2006. Continued
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| Volume 12 Fall/Winter 2006 |
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CLI Hosts Discussion of Effective Early Literacy Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Children
Attendees suggested that, as a growing number of early education students speak a combination of both their heritage language and English, classrooms with Spanish-speaking children should embrace the use of Spanish and English. Continued
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Update on the Virtuous Circle: CLI receives a Wachovia Teachers and Teaching Initiative Grant
CLI’s program for continuous quality teacher improvement is awarded a grant in this nation-wide competition. Continued
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Growing Up Great in Burlington County, New Jersey…with CLI’s Blueprint for Early Literacy
Some Burlington County Head Starts will begin using CLI’s pre-kindergarten curriculum with a grant from PNC’s Grow Up Great! program. Continued |
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| Volume 11 Spring/Summer 2005 |
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Baltimore Community Determined to Prepare
Pre-Schoolers for Kindergarten: High Quality
Pre-K Education is Vital to Success
Rye. Carpenter. Harvest. We assume that a typical 3rd grade student would know the meaning of these words. Unfortunately, this is not always the case, as a CLI Professional Developer recently discovered while teaching a lesson in an urban 3rd grade classroom. Continued
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Constructing the Virtuous Circle: Creating a Culture of Continuous Quality Teacher Improvement to Better Raise Student Achievement
A plan is needed that helps the pre-service teachers in our universities aspire to become highly qualified, attracts them to urban schools, supports them when they are new (stemming the tide of attrition), and establishes links between university education programs and the urban school districts especially in need of quality staff. Continued
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CLI's Blueprint Pre-kindergarten Curriculum Positively Impacts School Readiness
"This year, I observed a remarkable improvement in the literacy skills of the four-year-olds. The children had an increased awareness of books and have substantially developed their vocabulary and literacy skills." Continued
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Teach For America Teachers from Across the Nation Attend CLI Training Specifically Designed for Those New to the Classroom
"I came [to the CLI Institute] very apprehensive about starting Year Two, and now I am looking forward to it and seriously thinking of putting off other career plans post-TFA in order to teach more." Teach For America 2003 LA Corps Member Continued
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CLI's New Blueprint for Early Literacy Curriculum Receives High Marks from Teachers in the Classroom
It is a typical day in this classroom using CLI's new Blueprint for Early Literacy pre-k curriculum: four youngsters are intently painting "R's" with red paint while others are writing simple sentences in their journals using words from the classroom's word wall. Nearby, several other 4-year-olds are seated at a table completing an independent task related to the theme they are learning. Continued
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CLI to Provide Training for Teach For America Corps Members
A special opportunity is in store for the corps members who will be attending from around the country. Through the generosity of various donors, attendees will receive instruction, materials, accommodations, and more than 40 children's books for their classrooms at no expense to them. Continued
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CLI'S Blueprint for Early Literacy Pre-kindergarten Curriculum is Ready for School
Great children's books are the heart and soul of CLI's new pre-kindergarten curriculum. Continued
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Professional Development in Japan: Grade-Level Meetings and Demonstration Lessons
Japanese teachers may spend up to 20 hours a week on "research lessons" and related activities. Continued
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Literacy Workshops to be Held at CLI Center for Professional Development
CLI presents a new opportunity for teachers to sign up individually for high-quality professional development seminars and workshops. Continued
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New
Museum Houses a CLI Favorite Author: Eric Carle
The first full-scale museum in the United States devoted
to international picture book art just opened in Amherst,
MA. Continued
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Have
Your Professional Development Trainings at the New CLI
Conference Center
Now CLI can conduct its programs in a modern, hi-tech
setting right at its headquarters. Continued
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Principals'
Reunion: Looking at What Works 6 Months Later
Principals who attended last year's summer Institute in
literacy leadership maintained high enthusiasm for the
program when they met again. Continued
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Just
Published: A Book that Helps Teachers Create a Literacy
Environment in the Classroom
This practical, 47-page handbook is illustrated with more
than 50 color photographs of teachers and students in
CLI classrooms and provides guidance in an easy to follow
format. Continued
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Helping
New Teachers Develop Better Classroom Management through
Effective Literacy Instruction
Students are squirming in their seats. The noise level
is rising. The teacher is beginning to feel out of control
of both her class and herself . . . Continued
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Letter
from a Teacher: In the Face of Many Challenges my Students
Continue to Learn and Grow
Her kindergarten classroom is crowded, and many of her
students are struggling with family and community violence.
But CLI training and coaching have helped Ellen Ginsberg
to create a classroom that is far from a bleak place.
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Regional
Educational Labs: Portals to the Latest
on Education Research, Policy, and Practice
Today, the Internet makes it possible to "visit"
all ten of the Regional Educational Laboratories, charged
by Congress with the responsibility to make information
about research and practice widely available. Continued
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Teachers
Matter Most to Student Achievement
Most people have heard at least one memorable story about
how a teacher changed someone's life for the better, but
fewer people know about research that has confirmed the
powerful effects teachers have on student achievement.
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Key
to Increasing Reading at Home is Managing TV Viewing Time
American children watch an average of 3 hours of TV each
day. Teachers can help families turn this situation around.
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Four
Outstanding Speakers to Present at
Institute for New Teachers
Four experts on early literacy education will contribute
their ideas, wisdom, and inspiration to a special week-long
Institute designed for new teachers with less than four
years of experience. Continued
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Children
Need Quality Classroom Book Collections
Research confirms the long-term academic benefits of access
to books, reading, and stories for young children. Because
this access is so fundamentally important, CLI assembles
the best collections of quality books for classrooms.
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Plans Principals Institute
CLI is in the process of expanding its professional development
activities with principals. In order to transform literacy
instruction throughout an entire school, principals need
to be knowledgeable about good literacy instruction and
children's literature, and to be able to motivate teachers
in the classroom. Continued
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What
Really Matters: a New Book Brings Together Research
Findings on Literacy and Early Schooling
Richard Allington, one of the most renowned literacy researchers
in the United States, has published yet another book recently
that comes highly recommended by CLI's Deputy Director
of Program Development, Jack McGovern. Continued
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CLI's
Model Classroom Project Expands to Newark
A CLI Model classroom is ordinary in several ways. It
is absolutely extraordinary in others. It is ordinary
in that it can be found in a typical school for a high-poverty
inner-city neighborhood. However, extraordinarily successful
teaching is taking place in a literacy-rich environment
that can seem like a teacher's dream come true. Continued
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Baltimore
Pre-k Teachers Learn to use Literacy Activities to Teach
Math and Science
This fall, 60 pre-kindergarten teachers in Baltimore who
have already received CLI's literacy training are taking
the next step with two days of training focusing on math
and science related literacy activities. Continued
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2001 |
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CLI
in the news in Baltimore
In the pre-kindergartens of Baltimore's public school
system, the CLI program is in place systemwide and school
officials say it's making a difference. Read more in this
article from the Baltimore Sun. Continued
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CLI
Receives the Great Friend to Kids Award
Children's Literacy Initiative was honored by Philadelphia's
Please Touch Museum as one of the Year 2000 recipients
of the Great Friend to Kids award. Continued
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National
TV-Turnoff Week is April 23-29
In Azusa, Georgia, principal Jon Blickenstaff kissed a
chicken when his students met his challenge to be TV-Free
for 1,000 hours. And Principal Randy Postmus from Visalia,
CA, had to make good on his bet to students that he would
sit on the roof for a day if more than three-quarters
of them made it though the week TV-free. Continued
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