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High School Houses Literacy Forum

More than 40 administrators and educators from eight Long Island school districts attended the Literacy Leaders' Forum at Bayport-Blue Point High School.

Bayport-Blue Point High School recently housed a forum focusing on the instructional shifts of the new Common Core Standards.

Administrators and educators from eight Long Island school districts had the opportunity to explore ideas that would encourage, motivate and support effective literacy instruction at the fourth annual Literacy Leaders’ Forum presented by Literacy Liason Ryan Aliperti and keynote speaker and founder of AlwaysLearning LL JoEllen McCarthy.

Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at Bayport-Blue Point said the Common Core Standards not only present an opportunity for schools to review best practices and validate what they have been doing within their buildings, but also allow the district to generate new ideas and gather resources.

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“My hope is that from this experience, teachers and administrators will explore different ideas, and this exchange of ideas will raise the comfort level of the Common Core Standards,” Eschbach said.

The forum consisted of 40 participants, including assistant superintendents, principals and assistant principals, reading specialists, curriculum coordinators, language arts directors and Response to Intervention specialists.

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Participants worked together in three small group sessions, discussing what the Common Core Standards looked like in practice within their own districts and how these practices could be improved upon.


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