Our Values
We imagine a world where all students receive a literacy education that empowers them to become literate and liberated lifelong learners.
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Engaging Hearts and Minds
Adopting a new curriculum is an exercise in change management. And making institutional change is hard work. Most importantly, change management must be rooted in a commitment to equity and engaging stakeholders at all steps in the process - making it all the more impactful and complex.
Making this shift requires changes in how we do, support, and think about the work of teaching and instructional leadership. Together, we need to do individual and collective work to not only build skill sets, but to build mindsets that align to our end goals.
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For Big Results, Start Small
Trying to win on everything can oftentimes result in winning on nothing - because impact requires focus. When we focus our attention, energy, and collective commitment on bite-sized and transferable action steps, we are more likely to make a big difference.
We still start with big end goals, but we determine foundational focus areas that will put us on the path towards reaching them.
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Grade Level Work is Equity Work
We live in a society where we have unacceptably low outcomes for students of color.
To change this, anyone involved in ELA needs to see equity as their job and their responsibility. We need to look critically at ourselves as leaders, teachers, and coaches and change our practices to advance equity and unlearn practices that are harmful.
