As a dedicated school principal, you balance ever-increasing demands in schools every day. You work tirelessly in implementing engaging, high quality literacy approaches, and often reflect on why some students are not making the expected progress or achievement. Frequently teachers feel overwhelmed with how to teach such a wide range of student strengths and needs, or know how or what support to put in place.
The missing link in many schools is knowing what is proven to make the biggest impact in literacy learning and how to embed this into a whole school, sustainable approach where teachers feel confident and supported in making a difference for every student.
Fortunately, improving literacy instruction is not achieved by figuring how to make this happen in your school alone…. but rather by following a proven, step by step school improvement methodology to prioritising what makes the greatest impact in literacy achievement for all students.
This could be for you if you are asking:
- How do I embed consistency in evidence based approaches across the school?
- How do we address such a wide range of literacy difficulties in our classrooms?
- Why isn’t program X having the expected impact on student achievement?
- Why do we have so many children with additional needs in reading, writing or spelling in the latter years of primary schooling?
- What is the most current research in reading science and how does this translate into effective teaching and learning?
- How does a Response to Intervention model look across a school?
- How can we effectively engage parents in their children’s learning?
- Be at the forefront of high impact literacy instruction, based on the science of reading and writing
- Develop and implement a whole school literacy enhancement plan based on international evidence-based research of what makes the greatest impact on student learning
- Work alongside you and your leadership team to embed a whole school literacy change model, with monthly coaching and mentorship
- Develop a strengths-based professional learning and coaching model where teachers feel valued, up skilled and supported
- Accelerate literacy learning across the school and fill in the gaps for students below expected standard
- Establish a proven school-wide preventative, intervention framework to reduce the number of students at risk in literacy, and promote social equity
- Effectively plan for a wide range of student abilities and know what to do to help them move forward, through a data informed practice model
- Upskill teachers and Education Assistants in the science of reading
- Make a significant improvement in literacy progress and achievement school-wide, where every student reaches their optimal potential
- Engage parents in a school’s improvement journey as key partners in their child’s learning success
Leading Literacy Impact™ Masterclass
Who Is This For?
The Leading Literacy Impact Masterclass is for every school principal and literacy leader in Years Foundation to Year 9.
- Principals/Head Teachers
- Assistant/Deputy Principals
- Learning Support Teachers
- Literacy Specialists
- Teachers aspiring to lead
The enrolment in the course is a one off cost, which is for your leadership team of up to 4 people.
How Does Leading Literacy Impact™ Masterclass Work?
Leading Literacy Impact™ is a structured literacy implementation curriculum for building literacy excellence in schools.
It is a self-paced online course to support literacy leaders to operationalise a strategic methodology for building, embedding and sustaining literacy excellence through system architecture, disciplined implementation and leadership capability.
Leading Literacy Impact™ integrates:
- a defined architecture of school excellence (what must exist)
- a structured implementation pathway (how it is built)
- and a rigorous system for measuring and analysing growth, impact and sustainability.
Here Are 3 Approaches We Recommend:
Option A
Complete all 10 modules over the course of 2 full days, as a whole team.
The two full days can be consecutive or with a few days break between them. This is a great way for teams to be able to focus and work through each section together as a group.
Option B
Complete one module each week, for 10 weeks (1 term).
Option C
Complete one module each fortnight, for 20 weeks (1 semester).
Individually work through the online modules and then plan to meet as a team for 60-120 minutes, each fortnight, to discuss and action each component. This approach can work well for those who are implementing the program during the school year when a slower approach is needed.
Program Modules and Outcomes
Each module is approximately 60-120 minutes investment of your time to build the skills and knowledge to embed and enhance literacy practices across the school.
Your leadership team can work at their own pace; and you never lose access to the course.
Establishing the preconditions for literacy improvement
You and your Literacy Leadership Team will establish the preconditions for school improvement, based on international research. This is also a time to share thoughts on a shared vision of what’s possible prior to working out the specifics of your Literacy improvement journey.
Uncover your school strengths and growth areas
This module will help you identify your current school strengths and where you would like to focus your literacy improvement. With your Literacy Leadership Team you will be unpacking the current school initiatives, approaches and programs, identifying current strengths and growth areas using audit tools and establishing focus areas of Literacy improvement for the first year.
Data approaches that will amplify your results.
This module will help you to enhance data informed leadership and classroom practice across the school. With your Literacy Leadership Team, you will be uncovering how to fine tune data analysis for teachers and provide a school wide system for data analysis and target setting.
Take your classroom teaching to the next level
Tune in to the strategies that have been proven to make the greatest impact on student motivation and achievement. You will be provided the effect sizes that demonstrate the impact of each and tools to implement or enhance these approaches in your school.
Bridge the gap from evidence to impact in Literacy
Understand the approaches that have the greatest impact on Literacy success including the Science of Reading and Writing, based on international research. Your team will be provided recommended approaches in each of these areas that optimise literacy learning and achievement.
Formulate a school-wide pedagogical framework
This module will help you establish the key elements of a Literacy Block across a week. Your team will also be provided guidance on developing a Pedagogical Framework for explicit instruction, backed by international research, providing consistency and high yield results.
Implement a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework
This module will help your team establish a consistent, preventative framework for early intervention and support. Your team will be provided approaches for teaching a wide range of abilities including assessment, differentiation, intervention; and writing effective documented plans with SMART targets.
Formulate an action plan with low risk, high yield results
As a Literacy Leadership Team you will be developing a whole school Literacy Enhancement Plan. Share the notes you’ve made about strategies and approaches in your school towards your vision and create a plan for quick wins that will support teachers and gain momentum for more difficult long-term changes later on.
Leadership principles for supporting teachers in the long term
This module will provide guidance on establishing a coaching model to support teachers in a strength-based approach, building on what they already do well. In this step, you will ensure that the long-term sustainable changes are in place and embed a culture of growth in the school.
Choose simple ways to make bigger shifts
In this module, you will be provided tried and tested approaches to enhance the relationships in the school with parents and allied agencies. Your team will be provided tried and tested solutions on how to effectively engage parents in the literacy improvement journey, which can have a significant impact on student learning.
What is the Investment?
Choose from the following investment packages:
Be the champion of literacy success for every student in your school
Option 1
School-based Leadership Team support for four people-
Access to ten self-paced Leading Literacy Impact Program™ online modules
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4 x half-day coaching consults (LT)
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4 x 1 hour coaching sessions (LT)
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2 days of professional learning (Whole school)
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2 days of lesson observations and feedback
Option 2
Online Learning 4 teacher licence-
Self-paced Leading Literacy Impact™ online modules for four leaders.
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Monthly Group Coaching with Julie Scali
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*Additional licenses – $248 per person plus GST.
After implementing the step-by-step school improvement methodology, your leadership team will feel:
- empowered knowing they are a school at the forefront what makes the biggest difference in literacy instruction and intervention
- confident knowing they have established consistent and preventative whole school frameworks
- renewed confidence in teaching, identifying and responding to, a wide range of student abilities in each classroom
- Reassured knowing that their new approaches will reduce the number of students identified at risk in the latter years of schooling
- Increased motivation due to the increased support, coaching and competency in high impact literacy instruction and intervention
- Clarity in the literacy improvement journey with an engaged school community
Schools can feel confident following a system that can make a significant impact on improving literacy outcomes for every student
Testimonials
What Makes the
Leading Literacy Impact Program Different?
I created this program for principals, school leaders and teachers who want evidence based methods and approaches embedded in their schools that create lasting change and literacy success for students.
The Leading Literacy Impact Masterclass attracts dedicated, passionate educators and leaders that don’t settle for the status quo.
Evidence underpinning the program:
- One-off PL has very little transfer into the classroom but by providing teachers with evidence-based high quality professional learning, along with ongoing coaching and mentorship to embed new knowledge, and build confidence and efficacy, it can make a significant impact on the quality of teaching and learning.
- Whole school approaches to literacy instruction, including Literacy blocks and pedagogical frameworks with low variation teaching, are evident in high performing schools.
- The quality of the teacher is what makes the greatest difference in student learning. School leaders have a huge role to play in ensuring that teachers feel valued and supported, have access to high quality evidence based professional learning and are provided with ongoing coaching or mentorship to embed and refine new knowledge, skills and approaches.
- Coaching is highly effective in improving teacher confidence and pedagogical efficacy.
- Response to Intervention has an effect size of 1.07 in student learning (Hattie and Zierer, 2017) which is highly significant in terms of approaches that make the biggest difference in schools and ensuring no child ‘slips through the cracks’ of education.
- Evidence based high impact literacy approaches are key to maximizing student learning success.
- Strength based approaches to beginning a school review and/or change management process can have a profound effect on inducing energy, passion and staff buy-in.
- Staff collaboration is a highly effective motivator and support for teachers, and as such, the coaching and mentorship in this program is done in a team. This also provides the foundation for distributed leadership and sustainable change for schools.
- Positive engagement of parents in schools has been proven to have a positive impact in student learning, and builds a strong sense of belonging and community.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, all three options of the course contain an electronic toolkit. This toolkit does not include the research articles attached to the online modules. Only Options 1 and 2 also come with a workbook
No, the entire program is online and provides support in an online community. The top tier of the program (Option 1) also includes Professional Learning and monthly coaching. Your leadership team can work at their own pace. All materials are released to you up front and you never lose access to the course.
Monthly coaching is held via Zoom for your team of 3. The monthly coaching sessions are scheduled at the start of the program and each team member will receive a link to the Zoom meeting. These sessions are an opportunity to provide support, consultancy and trouble shooting advice.
Yes, Julie can provide advice or guidance on your literacy improvement journey. You will also have the support of other leadership teams in the community who can offer suggestions based on their own school’s experiences.
The two days professional learning can be scheduled throughout the year based on your own school’s context and needs and can be used for the whole staff and not just those enrolled in the Masterclass.
The topics may consist of: the full Masterclass in a face to face version, High Impact Literacy Instruction; Response to Intervention; Data Informed Practice or a combination of the components of the topics within the lectures of the masterclass. It will depend on your schools needs.
Schools may also opt for small group consulting and coaching in year level teams, which are highly effective. These group support may include: Differentiation, Using data for effective unit planning, Writing effective SMART targets for documented plans.
You can purchase additional licences for $98 each. Email: info@literacyimpact.com.au and we will customise your order.
As we release all course materials upfront including the e-workbook and e-toolkit, we do not generally offer refunds on the course. If however, within the first 30 days, you are unhappy with your results in the program, please send an email and we will do what we can to offer support and make it work for you.
Choose Your Literacy Impact Journey:
Option 1
Online Masterclass (for a team of 3) with online support, PL and monthly coaching for one year.
I can’t wait to kick-start your Literacy success journey with you.