Thank you for visiting the Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin (LTFW) exhibit booth #436 at the 2022 WI State Education Convention!

We are very grateful to LTFW donors who made the exhibit, Book Giveaways, and Professional Learning Raffle possible.

Equity can be achieved when pathways toward equity invest in and prioritize the Science of Reading (SoR) for ALL.

We invite you to continue learning about Equity through Literacy:

wi-reads.org

widyslexiaroadmap.org

scienceofreadingmatters.org

If you are able, please consider making a donation to the Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin to support our mission.

Sincerely,

Donna & Nancy

Who is the Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin, how we can support your school district?

The Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin (LTFW) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of the Science of Reading (SoR) and advocating for Equity through Literacy.

Our Goals:

• increase awareness about the impact of literacy

• provide training about the Science of Reading to educators, leaders, and parents

• connect teachers, leaders, parents, and interested individuals with resources

• raise funds for literacy training, partial scholarships, and resources, and operational costs

LTFW Resources for Literacy Leaders:

• Lunch & Lead Conversations - Spring 2022 Series

• SoR Professional Learning Calendar | Google Calendar | iCal |

• Science of Reading for Administrators-What Teachers Want You to Know Facebook Group

• School Board Members WI Reads LinkedIn Group

• District Administrators WI Reads LinkedIn Group

• *Coming Soon! Literacy Task Force of WI (LTFW) Science of Reading (SoR) Training Survey Results - Make this survey more valuable by inviting educators in your school district to complete (LTFW) Science of Reading (SoR) Training Survey!

How are literacy, equality, and dyslexia connected to the Key Work of School Boards?

Vision - Effective school boards establish a clear vision with high expectations for quality teaching and learning that supports strong student outcomes. They establish clear and specific goals to move districts forward.

• Evidence from the Science of Reading (SoR) shows that 95% of students can learn to read at grade level

• Evidence-aligned literacy and instructional practices can overcome external factors

Resources:

• 4 Reasons Literacy Leadership Matters

• Brandon P. Flemming's story of Struggle, Success, and Service,

• Equity through Literacy Reflection Tool, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Ladder of Reading & Writing, Nancy Young

Accountability - High academic standards, transparency, and accountability undergird a world-class education. True accountability depends on open decision making, community engagement and support, and receptivity to new ideas and constructive criticism.

• Universal screening of foundational reading skills is essential for early-identification of risk factors and prevention of reading failure

• Systematically measure and report growth in foundational reading skills K-5

Resources:

• Assessment, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Elementary Scorecard, WI Redefining Ready

• Dyslexia Legislation, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Assemble Amendment 2, to Assembly Bill 446, Reading Readiness Roadmap

Policy - Policy is how a board sustainably exercises power to serve students. Through policy, school boards establish a set of cohesive guidelines able to transform vision into reality.

• Structured literacy is effective for all learners and necessary for some

• Equity can be accomplished through structured, systematic, comprehensive literacy plans which focus on continuous improvement and include:

  • • priority on reading

    • Evidence-aligned reading instruction and intervention resources

    • Purposeful data use

    • Job-embedded collaborative learning for leaders, educators, and paraprofessionals

Resources:

• 5 Walls and 5 Bridges, The Six Shifts Downloads

• District Literacy Improvement for Administrators, Glean Education Ed Leaders Podcast, featuring Brent Conway

• Equity through Literacy Reflection Tool, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Leadership Tool Kit | Downloaded, Shifting the Balance

• Lead for Literacy Framework, US Department of Education

• Ohio's Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement, Ohio Department of Education

• What do Literacy Leaders Need to Know?, Lead for Literacy

What is the science of reading, and why do leaders in education need to know about it?

• Reading has been studied extensively around the world over the past fifty years in multiple fields, including:

  • • • Cognitive psychology

      • Communication sciences

      • Developmental psychology

      • Education

      • Implementation science

      • Linguistics

      • Neuroscience

      • School psychology

• Scientific research has produced consistent, converging evidence about how reading and writing skills develop for all learners, why some learners have difficulty learning to read and write, and how educators can leverage assessment and instruction for both prevention and intervention.

Resources:

• Science of Reading Handbook, Amplify

• Science of Reading: Tools and Resources to Support Your Literacy Instruction, LETRS

• S1-15. A principal on the shift to the science of reading: Ernesto Ortiz, Amplify, The Science of Reading Podcast, featuring Ernesto Ortiz

• The Science of Reading: A Defining Movement, Coalition developed by The Reading League

• Teacher-Friendly Guide to Making Sense of Scientific Research, Six Shifts Download

• Teaching Reading is Rocket Science, American Educator

• 1/22/22 Webinar: The Science of Reading: A Defining Movement Book Launch

• Science of Reading, Mississippi Department of Education

Are my school district’s reading instructional materials supporting reading achievement of all learners?

• Structured literacy is effective for all learners, and necessary for some learners.

• According to the WI DPI WI Instructional Materials Matter Statewide Curriculum Map (80% of WI districts responded, including 681 K-2 curriculum responses), the following instructional materials are most consistently used in WI K-2 classrooms:

21% - Lucy Calkins (Heinemann)

19% - Fountas and Pinnell (Heinemann)

12% - Journeys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

12% - Teacher or District Developed

• The majority of WI schools used balanced literacy practices and instructional materials, which have an effect size of 0.09 - less than 25% of a typical year's growth.

Resources:

• A Teacher-Friendly Guide to Making Sense of Scientific Research, Six Shifts Downloads

• Curriculum, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Curriculum Evaluation Tool, Reading League

• EdReports.org

• Foundational Reading Skills Tool (FRST): A Self-Assessment Tool for Reading Instruction Kindergarten through Grade Two, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

• High-Quality Instructional Materials and Curriculum-Based Professional Learning As A School Improvement Strategy, WI DPI (March 2019)

• Ladder of Reading & Writing, Nancy Young

• The “Look Before You Leap” Routine: Paths to Problem-Solving Using V-MS, Six Shifts Download

• Mississippi's Approach to K-3 Literacy Instruction, Mississippi Department of Education

• New Curriculum Review Gives Failing Marks to Two Popular Reading Programs, EdWeek

• Parent Checklist (Literacy Dialogue Tool), Schools Cubed

• Questions for Using the 3 Tensions in Beginning Reader Text Selection, Six Shifts Download

• Response to EdReports’ Assessment of Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Writing and Phonics, Teacher's College Reading & Writing Project

• Structured Literacy and Typical Literacy Practices: Understanding Differences to Create Instructional Opportunities, Reading Rockets

• Wisconsin Instructional Materials Matter: Statewide Curriculum Map | Overview

Do my school district’s reading assessments ensure compliance with Federal Child Find Laws?

• "A skills-based universal screener is the most appropriate, defensible tool for identifying students that have skills deficits and informing the need for a skills-based intervention. If a skills-based universal screener is not used, districts might not identify students with underlying skills deficits or properly align interventions. Further, if districts do not use a skills-based universal screener and are unable to collect accurate data associated with a suspected area of disability, they may run the risk of violating their Child Find obligation." Dyslexia Resource Guide, Guidance on the Say Dyslexia Law, Tennessee Department of Education, p12.

• Universal screener assessments commonly used for reading in WI schools are typically standards-based screeners, some also include skill-based screeners.

• "Yep - it has 54% diagnostic accuracy. Thus, practitioners who use reading inventory data for screening decisions will likely be about as accurate as flipping a coin whenever a new student enters the classroom." Dr. Matt Burns

• "The use of dyslexia as a descriptor of a specific type of reading disorder (and a specific type of learning disability) is not limited to those working in a medical setting. Rather, its use is only limited by the training and assessment experience of those who would use the term." WI Dyslexia Roadmap

Resources:

• A Dyslexia Toolkit, Pearson Clinical Assessment Solutions

• Assessment, Dyslexia Roadmap

• Defining Dyslexia, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Dyslexia Legislation, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Dyslexia Resource Guide, Guidance on the Say Dyslexia Law, Tennessee Department of Education

• Identification of Dyslexia, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Example Diagnostic & Progress Monitoring Reading Assessments, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Leveling students: Why we do it, why we shouldn't, and what we should do instead- Dr. Matt Burns

• Reading Intervention for Older Struggling Students, Keys to Litearcy Blog

• Results for Wisconsin 4th Graders Who Took the 2020-21 Forward ELA Exam, WI Reading Coalition

• Types of Reading Assessments, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Use of the Woodcock Johnson EV for the Assessment of Dyslexia, Woodcock Johnson IV Assessment Service Bulletin Number 6

• Quick Guide for Reading Assessment, AIM

What are the costs of Balanced Literacy and Return on Investment of Structured Literacy?

• Dyslexia will cost California $12 billion in 2020 and $1 trillion dollars over the next 60 years

• The prevalence of Dyslexia among learning issues facing school children is higher than ADHD, diagnosed behavioral problems, anxiety, PTSD, depression, and autism; it is almost equal to ESL.

• Dyslexic learners are over-represented in negative life outcomes including chronic absenteeism, social services, juvenile detention, special education, prison, homeless.

• Investing in early screening, teacher training, and assistive technology to address dyslexia would produce dramatic savings

  • • equivalent to unlocking 5% of California’s existing state budget

    • realistic savings of $11,908,351.25 over 25 years for K-5 student population at MEVSD (2,302 students)

Resources:

• Costs & ROI, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• The Economic Impact of Dyslexia on California white paper

• Ohio Dyslexia Roadmap

How can Wisconsin resources such as Wisconsin’s Informational Guidebook on Dyslexia and Related Conditions support school board members, administrators, and educators?

Many states have published a dyslexia guidebook or handbook. Some are for information purposes only. Some support K-12 schools in meeting state and federal laws pertaining to dyslexia.

WI 2019 ACT 86 required:

• the creation of an Informational Guidebook on Dyslexia and Related Conditions

  • • Screening and identification

    • Instruction and intervention

    • Resources and services

• Co-Chairs and Advisory Committee representatives from

• WI Branch of the International Dyslexia Association

• Wisconsin State Reading Association

• DPI

*Must be linked to by each Wisconsin school district by December 1, 2021, will be reviewed every 3 years.

A group of volunteer literacy advocates from WI recently published a NEW Wisconsin dyslexia resource, the WI Dyslexia Roadmap.

Resources:

• LETRS Dyslexia and Structured Literacy Connections

• WI Dyslexia Roadmap

  • • Characteristics of Dyslexia at Different Ages

    • Equity through Literacy Reflection Tool

    • Example Diagnostic & Progress Monitoring Reading Assessments

    • Types of Reading Assessments, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Understanding Dyslexia, Keys to Literacy Blog

• Wisconsin's Informational Guidebook on Dyslexia and Related Conditions

  • • Wisconsin’s Informational Guidebook on Dyslexia and Related Conditions: A Summary (1 page)

    • Using Wisconsin’s Informational Guidebook on Dyslexia and Related Conditions to Support Collaborative Conversations for Improved Reading Outcomes: A Guidance Document

    • Pages 10-12 - Table 1: Myths and Misunderstandings about Dyslexia Explained

    • Pages 17- 26 - Screening Processes and Tools

    • Pages 34-39 - Table 5: Critical Principles of Reading Instruction for Students with Dyslexia and Related Conditions

    • Page 49 - Table 7: Suggestions for Supporting a Child’s Literacy Development

How can ESSER Funding help my district improve reading achievement for all learners?

• Up to $25,000 to each CESA to host a Leadership in Literacy Institute (provided by Schools Cubed) or a similar evidence aligned training that educates principal and administrators in evidence-based reading instruction and the requisite structures and systems for increasing reading achievement in schools. - Motion 57 - item 8.b.

• Up to $4,000 reimbursement for each school district and CESA for the direct course costs for staff to attend LETRS training or another program endorsed by the Center for Effective Reading Instruction or the International Dyslexia Association - Motion 57 - item 8.a.

• Use state aid available through WI statute 118.016 Assessments of reading readiness., to purchase valid and reliable assessments of literacy fundamentals (ie: skill-based reading assessments)

• To purchase high-quality, standards-aligned instructional materials and corresponding professional learning. - WI DPI

Resources:

• 2022EdCon - ESSER Funding Quick Guide for WI School Districts, Literacy Task Force of WI

• Building Capacity, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Dyslexia Legislation, WI Dyslexia Roadmap

• Motion 57

ESSER Flyers from Professional Learning Donors:

• 95% Group ESSER Flyer

• AIM ESSER Flyer

• Keys to Literacy ESSER Flyer

• LETRS ESSER Flyer

WI Professional Learning:

• Academy of Foundational Literacy Summer Series, CESA 9

• Dyslexia Interventionist Credential, Carroll College

• Literacy Center, CESA 8

• Reading Education, UW-Whitewater

Exhibit visitors are eligible for a Science of Reading book from Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin donors.

Please consider if you will read the book and a leader in your school district who you would consider passing it on to when you are finished when selecting a book.

The Book Giveaway complies with state law and the Wisconsin Code of Ethics for Local Public Officials.

District officials may accept at the Convention educational or informational materials, prizes, or other giveaway items for the purpose of conveying the item to the district for the use or benefit of the district. District policies my address the issue of receipt of gifts by district officials.

Recipients will receive an email receipt from the Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin noting the book title and value no later than February 30, 2022.

Recipients will also be announced on the Literacy Task Force Facebook and LinkedIn pages with #2022EdCon #LTFW436 #LTFW #WIreads #SoRmatters #EquityThroughLiteracy #SoRbooks

ALL Professional Learning Raffle donors qualify as approved providers for ESSER Funding as currently outlined in Motion 57 items 8a and 8b.

There will be 37 winners from 14 school districts - a total value of $7,416 of professional learning to WI schools! These educators and school districts will lead the way to exploring options for future ESSER spending decisions in their region!

ESSER Flyers from Professional Learning Donors:

• 95% Group ESSER Flyer

• AIM ESSER Flyer

• Keys to Literacy ESSER Flyer

• LETRS ESSER Flyer

Additional qualified providers ESSER Funding as currently outlined in Motion 57 items 8a and 8b include:

• CERI Accredited Independent Teacher Training Programs

• Independent Teacher Training Programs Accredited by IDA

• ALL are aligned to the Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading

Exhibit visitors are eligible to enter a raffle for Professional Learning.

Please consider individuals in your school district who will have the interest and capacity to complete the professional learning by December, 31 2022 when deciding to enter the raffle.

The Professional Learning Raffle complies with state law and the Wisconsin Code of Ethics for Local Public Officials.

District officials may accept at the Convention educational or informational materials, prizes, or other giveaway items for the purpose of conveying the item to the district for the use or benefit of the district. District policies my address the issue of receipt of gifts by district officials.

Winners, along with their school district administrator, school board president, and school business officer will be notified and provided a receipt noting the professional learning title, value, and donor via an email from the Literacy Task Force of Wisconsin no later than Tuesday, February 30, 2022.

Winners will also be announced on the Literacy Task Force Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages #2022EdCon #LTFW436 #LTFW #WIreads #SoRmatters #EquityThroughLiteracy #SoRprofessionallearning

• Ed Leaders Podcast, Glean Education

• Reading, AMP Reports

• Six Shifts Jan Burkins and Kari Yates: Shifting the Balance

• Science of Reading the Podcast, Amplify

• Teaching, Reading, and Learning: The Reading League Podcast, The Reading League