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Instructional Literacy Leadership Team (ILT) Program

Creating effective literacy leadership that improves student literacy outcomes through grade-level rigorous, standards-driven instructional experiences.

LDC’s Instructional Literacy Leadership Team Program (ILT) is a 3 year long cohort-based professional learning program for instructional leaders and their teams who seek to improve the literacy outcomes for students. This literacy leadership “ecosystem” emphasizes the mindset shifts that enable the collective learning, the purposeful leadership and systemic implementation of high-quality standards-driven instructional materials ensuring effective tier 1 literacy instruction. The step by step, resource-supported process supports leaders in establishing or resetting your school’s ecosystem so your students experience exponential growth in literacy across subjects and from grade to grade.

The Instructional Literacy Leadership Team Program (ILT) Theory of Action: By focusing leaders’ attention on what students are being asked to do (the tasks) and examining the resulting student work, ILTs will make targeted, data-informed instructional decisions that increase student outcomes across the school. This is a gradual release of responsibility model over a three year period, leading to self-sustaining instructional leadership teams that learn from student work to make systems-level improvements.

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ILT Program Data

Rigor Walk participant reflection about literacy rigor
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Program at a Glance
COST: Two Options:
  1. LDC-Led: Year 1, $50K for ILT cohort up to 20 members, includes licensing fee for 25 ELA, SS and/or Science teachers (with gradual release supports in years 2 and 3)1
  2. District/School-led: $2,500 per ILT Member, $500 licensing fee per ELA, SS and/or Science teacher
PD TIME COMMITMENT: 37 hours of job-embedded professional learning over the course of the year with 18 hours application through PLC meeting facilitation
  • 21 hours ILT Sessions/Rigor Walks
  • 10 hours online / asynchronous
  • 6 hours virtual / synchronous via Zoom for Launch
  • 18 hours hands-on application through PLC meeting facilitation
PLC LEADERSHIP:
  • ILT members will lead the implementation of at least 2 LDC curricular modules (each takes up to 2 weeks of classroom time) for each participating teacher
  • Select from over 100+ high-quality, standards-aligned module
  • LDC program staff will work with participants to fit each module into existing curriculum maps
SUSTAINMENT: Both the LDC-Led and District/School-Led options come with 3 -year access to all supporting resources helping schools deepen the impact of the learning
  • LDC-led cohorts will customize the Year 2 and Year 3 experiences using a gradual-release strategy with a goal of sustainable capacity at the district/school level
Program Outcomes
Increase student literacy outcomes through focused ILT literacy leadership and effective PLCs.

Literacy becomes school-wide. Leaders and teachers enact their collective understanding of the literacy standards, using student work to determine effectiveness in classrooms

Every teacher calibrates to grade level instruction by experiencing two standards-driven instructional modules

Students have multiple “at-bats” to engage in grade-level rigorous thinking and produce disciplinary literacy products in English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science

178+
school leaders prepared and transforming their school’s Tier 1 literacy instruction
73
schools served across 3 states
700+
instructional modules taught, generating 18,000+ written student work samplesy
9,200+
students thinking and producing student work at grade-levels
How It Works

ILT Team Application

  • Apply between January and June for the following year
  • Program kicks off with Summer LDC-led Launch
  • Districts are encouraged to enroll multiple teams/schools for a cohort experience

Summer

  • 1 Day LDC-led virtual or in-person Launch (6 hours)
  • Asynchronous Learning (4 hours)

Fall/Winter

  • Instructional Cycle #1 (10 hours)
  • ILT team members lead PLC teams (9 hours)
  • PLC members (ELA, SS and SC) each teach 1 LDC Module

Winter/Spring

  • Instructional Cycle #2 (10 hours)
  • ILT team members lead PLC teams (9 hours)
  • PLC members (ELA, SS and SC) each teach 1 LDC Module
A Deeper Look
More Information
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What is a Rigor Walk?
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