CSMP

The mission of CRLP is to provide high quality, standards-based professional development in reading and language instruction to help ensure that every California student PreK-12 achieves the highest standards of academic performance. We do this by:

• Developing teachers’ content knowledge and expanding their teaching strategies (guided by state-adopted frameworks, content standards, and instructional materials) through summer and academic-year institutes and professional development programs

• Supporting teachers in the effective use of newly adopted, standards-based instructional materials

• Focusing on academic English language development to prepare all students to meet or exceed academic content standards in the subject areas

• Creating a statewide pool of expert teacher leaders and university scholars to conduct project programs and to translate California’s educational policies and priorities into sound classroom practices to improve student achievement in Pre-K-12 classrooms

• Linking universities, schools, and districts together in collaborative partnerships to improve teaching and learning with professional development designed to meet district needs.

LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

CRLP offers a wide array of opportunities for teachers to become literacy leaders. Leadership Invitationals, seminars, courses and professional reading groups contribute to the leadership capacity for the region.

SIGNATURE PROGRAMS

K-6: CRLP Results and Results for English Learners

These 40 hour institutes are organized around three key elements: standards-based assessment, teamwork and data analysis through a teacher learning community model, and research-based instruction and intervention. Results for ELs is approved for SB472 follow-up hours.

K-8: A Developmental English Proficiency Test (ADEPT)

This training prepares teachers to administer ADEPT, identify a student’s instructional level for ELD instruction, understand language abilities to assist in differentiating instruction and plan instruction in ELD, Frontloading language and reading/language arts.

K-6 : A Focused Approach to Frontloading

English Language Instruction for Houghton Mifflin and Open Court Reading. The purpose of these Institutes is to prepare teachers to effectively teach language throughout the instructional day with particular emphasis on how to link language instruction to reading instruction using the new California Sate Board-adopted reading programs.

K-6: Spanish-to-English Bi-literacy Transferability

The purpose of this institute is to provide bi-literacy teachers with tools that will help their students’ transition from Spanish reading to English by creating a space for English literacy to be learned in an “additive approach across grades.”

K-3: Writing  Support Guide for “Lectura Reading Program”

(For Spanish Biliteracy Classroom Teachers)

The purpose of this institute is to prepare teachers to effectively use their current reading programs to plan instruction that will promote their students’ understanding of the critical attributes and language of both expository and narrative genres included in the California State Standards; to the degree that their students’ writing evidences increased complexity and skill.   (Available Fall 2006)

6-12 CALL: Content Area Language and Literacy

A Professional Development program designed to provide secondary teachers with the tools and skills necessary to analyze the academic language and literacy demands of course-specific texts and materials. CALL supports teachers in designing effective instruction to help their students read complex texts and to use evidence from the text to demontrate their conprehension.

Monterey Bay CRLP-Contact Information

Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties are served by the UCSC/Monterey Bay office. Please contact us for more information or if you are interested in CRLP leadership opportunities.