Success in high school, college, and the modern workforce requires mastering high-level literacy skills specific to each content area, such as a historian’s ability to analyze the perspective expressed in a primary source or a scientist’s evaluation of whether an experiment’s results warrant the conclusions. To achieve these outcomes, literacy researchers have argued that secondary school students must learn both comprehension and vocabulary development strategies, as well as literacy-related strategies that vary by content area—allowing learners to access and make sense of challenging discipline-specific content. However, most content area teachers have traditionally not been trained to integrate literacy instruction into their lessons. Through a grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Education Alliance at Brown University developed the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) program to assist educators with delivering more effective instruction in the content areas and closing persistent achievement gaps among their students. Through a combination of job-embedded online and face-to-face collaborative activities, CALL teachers explored research and resources related to proven literacy practices, experimented with new teaching strategies, and created a series of literacy-rich lessons in their content areas. This publication provides a glimpse into the CALL experience, which participants recognized for its attention to rigor and its appeal as relevant to pressing teaching and learning needs. Published 2014 by The Education Alliance at Brown University. Author(s): Feger, S., & Mather, M.A. (Eds.).
"Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders: Practitioner Perspectives About Literacy in the Content Areas"
(2014).
The Education Alliance at Brown University.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/qad3-3v97
This collection holds materials from the Education Alliance at Brown University. The Education Alliance was a reform support organization committed to advancing equitable educational opportunities that prepare all student populations to succeed in the 21st century. From 1975-2021, the Alliance …
