Contra Costa County Office of Education (CCCOE) has been awarded a $9.8 million grant by the California Department of Education (CDE) to become the lead agency responsible for providing professional development opportunities to K-12 public school teachers in California to strengthen reading instruction for all students in the state.
CCCOE will team up with seven partners to share professional development opportunities and work with schools, educators, and districts in meeting the state’s critical goal: every child learns to read by third grade.
The new effort, titled Project ARISE (Accelerating Reading Intervention for Systemic Excellence), will feature partnerships between CCCOE and San Diego County Office of Education; Glenn County Office of Education; the University of La Verne; the University of California, San Francisco; Turnaround for Children; TNTP (formerly known as The New Teacher Project), and National Center on Intensive Intervention. The teamed approach will support student acceleration of literacy learning and evidence-based professional learning to administrators, teachers, and paraeducators in the areas of reading interventions.
CCCOE will leverage best practices learned and relationships built through the Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) Grant, allowing the agency to further expand statewide literacy support in a larger scope of work and geographic area compared to the CLSD Grant. Project ARISE will support more educators throughout California and is designed to provide more reading and literacy interventions to students. Project ARISE will focus on meeting struggling scholars where they are with innovative reading reinforcements, ensuring learners are properly equipped to become more confident readers. Partner institutions of higher education will bring deep expertise related to screening strategies, tools to identify student needs, and early detection of dyslexia in children.
Project ARISE is designed to bring literacy support to a diverse array of learners, including English learner students, students with disabilities, and students with dyslexia. Three County Offices of Education are part of Project ARISE and are intentionally and distinctly situated in central, southern, and northern California; serving primarily suburban, urban, and rural communities. The project will establish regional Professional Learning Networks to help districts build capacity around the continuous literacy improvement process. Oversight of the program is administered by the CDE and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE).
Wait…. What?????????
They are sharing how not to do it?????
Without motivation nothing will change. You can’t teach an unmotivated kid.
The program’s purpose is to uncover hidden information keeping our kids in the bottom one-third of all state results for academic achievement. All we need is information sharing among groups or enactment of whatever the last educational grant study came up with, they tell us. I don’t buy it. There is not hidden information in some other California district somewhere. I would go outside of California to see why other states are succeeding, and we are failing, as well as look at California’s past record of success to identify whatever woke or other emphasis is keeping us behind now. This seems to be a complete waste of money where the spending is the success to point to instead of actual results.
Waste of money. Public education is failing. Time to reboot the entire system.
One could presume the educators already are literate. There are lot of words in this article about scope, interventions, etc. Most kids should know how to read basically, at the very least, by 3rd grade. If there are leaning problems then this kind of program should be started as soon as a child shows signs of having reading problem. Might need glasses, might need hearing aides, etc but problems should be notice before the 3rd grade and addressed.
I had dyslexia when I was a kid, and never got any help. They just thought I was a slow learner. I heard Jay Leno say he was dyslexic as a kid, and his teachers thought he was stupid. Albert Einstein was also dyslexic, so was Walt Disney, and Thomas Edison.
College helped me a lot, and my dyslexia isn’t as bad anymore, but once in a while I have to read a sentence over to get it right. My daughter, on the other hand, learned to read, spell, and count, before she was in kindergarten from watching Sesame Street.