Project Summary

In collaboration with the Center for Inquiry on Secondary Education (CISE) in Maine and the Center for Resource Management (CRM), The Education Alliance produced research-based resources that provide guidelines for planning, implementing, and sustaining adolescent literacy initiatives at the secondary level, and provided professional development that applied effective secondary literacy classroom practices in the subject areas.

The emphasis of this project was to disseminate useful research-based materials in Maine and analyze their application for wider dissemination. Staff also explored ways to align this work with a project of the Education Department at Brown University that focused on the performing arts to engage secondary level students in literacy. That Brown University project took place in several urban high schools in Rhode Island, primarily in Central Falls and Providence. These pilot sites were used to test the process in urban school settings and provide expanded learnings for other projects in this program area.

See also:

• The Knowledge Loom Spotlight: Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas

Publications related to this project:

• Adolescent Literacy Resources
• Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners Through Content Area Learning - Part One: Focus on Motivation and Engagement
• Meeting the Literacy Development Needs of Adolescent English Language Learners Through Content Area Learning - Part Two: Focus on Classroom Teaching and Learning Strategies