Planting Seeds for ChangeFrom the CEO – Joel Zarrow, Ph.D.It’s spring! For many people, that means cleaning. Here at CLI, we are gearing up for our annual Spring Planning Week which brings staff together at our Philadelphia headquarters to share ideas and feedback and set goals for the next school year.In the classroom, spring cleaning is a great opportunity to …
The Read – December 2018
What are you reading this month?From the CEO – Joel Zarrow, Ph.D.Children’s Literacy Initiative is so grateful to each of you who have participated in our first-ever Read-A-Thon. I hope you’re following CLI on social media to see the videos we’ve been posting for #30daysofreading.I want to let you know about a book I just loved: Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer …
Teachers
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Teacher Impact
Teacher ImpactSupporting Virtual LearningAfter schools moved entirely to distance learning in March, CLI hosted more than 42,000 hours of virtual coaching to support educators as they adjusted to teaching literacy in online classes, provided 1,300 literacy lesson plans and created 350 read aloud and lesson videos to help students stay on track. CLI even developed Spanish and English lesson plans …
Workshops & Seminars
Workshops & SeminarsAbout UsServicesCLI’s ProjectsCoaching for EducatorsLeadership DevelopmentContact UsBuilding teacher knowledge and instructional capacityWe host full-day workshops and seminars for teachers focused on research-based instructional practices linked to improved student early literacy. Teachers have the opportunity to learn best practices, observe video demonstrations, and engage with each other, focused on building understanding. Up to 20 teachers per session.Our workshops and …
6 Easy Ways to Improve Turn & Talk for Student Language Development
Turn and Talk, in which children are partnered up to take turns listening and speaking with one another, is a common classroom practice with many benefits. It allows all children to share their thinking with one another, it helps children develop their oral language skills and the pragmatics, or social conventions, of discourse. Turn and Talk also provides teachers with …
Closing the Diversity Gap in Children’s Books
Here are the facts: people of color make up 37% of the U.S. population, but only 10% of children’s books published in the past 21 years include multicultural content. That is a disconcerting gap. We know that children benefit from seeing people like themselves in the books they read, which means that for an organization working in urban schools, CLI’s collections …
Effective Pre-K Instruction is a Smart Investment
…with CLI intervention, Pre-K centers are better prepared to develop the vocabulary of their students, putting them on a much brighter path for future academic achievement.
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