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Features
Student Achievement
- All professional development focuses on student work and is dedicated to improving teacher practice.
- All students can achieve and are entitled to equal access to knowledge.
- All students are encouraged to become lifelong readers.
Improving Instruction in English Language Arts
- CRLP professional development focuses on modeling best practices and sharing effective strategies for improving comprehension and developing academic literacy.
- CRLP supports academic English language development to prepare all students to meet or exceed academic content standards.
- A multicultural curriculum enriches learning and brings vitality to the classroom.
Growing Teacher Leaders
- CRLP institutes reflect the belief that the best teacher of teachers is another teacher.
- All students deserve highly qualified reading and literature teachers.
- Effective language arts teachers should themselves be expert readers.
Guided by Research
- Systemic reform in education must be grounded in both practice and research-based knowledge about teaching and learning.
- Effective instruction is guided by inquiry, reflection and experimentation.
- Professional development engages educators in teaching, assessment, observation, collaboration, and reflection to understand the processes of learning.
Adapted from: U.S. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) “Studies of Educational Reform“ (1996-97)
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