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Friday, April 27, 2007
| We are ending the school year with a number of Online Events in May and June, many of which are focused on literacy. In September, we will continue this series of Online Events with nationally recognized literacy experts.
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Promising Technology Practices for Struggling Readers
 May 17 - Free Online Event
This interactive event will be led by Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Deputy Director of the National Center for Technology Innovation, and Bridget Dalton, Chief Literacy and Technology Officer at the Center for Applied Special Technology. The webcast will focus on research-based and promising technology-based approaches to improving outcomes for struggling readers. Assistive and learning technologies that support reading and communicating in the content areas will be featured, related resources will be shared, and practical solutions to common instructional and implementation challenges will be demonstrated.
New Tools to Make Benchmark Analysis Free and Painless
 May 23 - Free Online Event
In this interactive online presentation, Janice Morrison, Jason Sutter, and Melodee Munckton from the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) will: 1) review research on using benchmark assessments to improve student achievement, 2) demonstrate free online sites that provide sample benchmark exams aligned to standards in California and other states, 3) demonstrate a free Excel template downloadable from the CTAP4 website that facilitates a standards-based analysis of data from the benchmark exams and 4) discuss how teachers might use this data to personalize instruction to improve students’ mastery of state standards.
Word Lists: Choices and Uses
 May 24 - Free Online Event
Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and facilitator of the California Vocabulary Forum, will lead this interactive online presentation on the role of word lists in vocabulary instruction. The uses of particular word lists in the design and implementation of vocabulary programs that seek to close the gap between high- and low-achieving students will be the focus of the presentation.
Findings from the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth
 June 14 - Free Online Event
In this interactive online presentation, Diane August, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics, will review recent research on the development of literacy in language-minority children. Central to this discussion of current research will be the findings from the National Literacy Panel. The role of the panel was to identify, assess, and synthesize literacy research related to language-minority children and youth in six areas: the development of literacy, the relationship between second language oral proficiency and second language literacy, cross-linguistic relationships, sociocultural contexts and literacy development, instructional approaches and professional development, and student assessment. This presentation is co-sponsored by SchoolsMovingUp and CREATE (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners).
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Because of our upcoming series of Online Events featuring nationally recognized literacy experts, we have gathered together all of SchoolsMovingUp's literacy resources — upcoming Online Events and Online Event archives, Tips to Go, useful links, and abstracted readings. You can review those resources here.
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