Literacy improvement can't rest on the shoulders of a single teacher. So what does it actually look like to make secondary literacy a shared responsibility across an entire school or district?

This week, Emily Russin from the HILL for Literacy joins us to dig into what a truly collaborative approach to adolescent literacy looks like — from the classroom to the district level. Emily takes us through concrete ideas about how to leverage structures that already exist within schools and districts to make literacy a shared, continuous experience. Like any good teacher can, Emily helps us use what we already have to build something transformational. 

We talk about:

• How to create a Literacy Action Plan
• The social-emotional nuances that deeply inform working with middle and high school students
• Concrete ideas and strategies district leaders can use to transform secondary literacy through collaboration

Resources for this episode:

• HILL for Literacy professional learning: https://hillforliteracy.org/
• Adolescent Literacy Vision Paper by Storyshares