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Parent and Family Engagement: Fostering a Strong Start

by | November 7, 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

How is your school district currently fostering parent and family engagement at the preschool level? The Collaborative for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is positioned to support your district with professional development regarding parent and family engagement...
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Creating a Culture of Feedback to Promote Lifelong Learners

by | October 26, 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

When feedback occurs routinely, students feel safe to take risks, think more deeply about what they’re learning, and eventually become self-regulated learners.

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From Teacher Monologue to Academic Dialogue: Engaging Students in Content Conversations

by | October 10, 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

Dialogic discussion makes speakers and listeners of everyone, opening up the possibility of co-constructed learning with teachers as facilitators. Beers and Probst, like most literacy experts, including the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning (CTL), advocate for less monologic and more dialogic interaction in classrooms, creating the type of authentic engagement that instills confidence in students by making them an integral part of the learning.

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Not This or That, but Both/And: Using ALM to Make Other High Quality Instructional Resources Even Better for Students

Not This or That, but Both/And: Using ALM to Make Other High Quality Instructional Resources Even Better for Students

by | Feb 6

Schools and districts are so often looking for a silver bullet to improve student outcomes. This isn’t new, we’ve been doing it for years and I’ve yet to find or hear of that ONE SINGLE THING that does it. With a mindset of not this or that, but both/and, teachers can begin to take the best of the resources they have before them to engage students in learning the content.

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Meeting the Needs of Multilingual Learners with ALM

Meeting the Needs of Multilingual Learners with ALM

by | Jan 11

The Adolescent Literacy Model is easily adaptable for meeting the needs of Multilingual Learners in heterogeneous classrooms. As teachers strategically select ALM strategies for their lessons, they can simultaneously plan modifications for their students with limited English proficiency.

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The Coach Is the Catalyst: Creating Conditions for Effective Comprehensive Literacy Instruction

The Coach Is the Catalyst: Creating Conditions for Effective Comprehensive Literacy Instruction

by | Dec 13

The school-wide implementation of a core set of literacy practices in every classroom, regardless of content area, reinforced by activities planned to engage students in higher order thinking is the Adolescent Literacy Model (ALM). ALM was developed by the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning and is a model that can increase the effectiveness of teachers in order to bring about improvements in student outcomes.

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