District and School Eligibility
- Designation as a rural or low wealth district
- All 9th and 10th grade teachers in ELA, history, and science content areas to participate in professional learning
Please fill out the interest form to check your districts’ eligibility.
Benefits for Teachers and Students
High quality professional learning, both in-person and online, that supports teachers across all subject areas to help students:
- Read a broad range of complex academic and workplace texts
- Foster discipline-specific literacy skills and high-level comprehension strategies
- Engage students in building knowledge through reading a broad range of complex academic and workplace texts
- Engage in strategic reading, problem-solving, and text-based reasoning individually and collaboratively
- Increase perseverance, stamina, and self-efficacy with progression toward independence
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WestEd will Provide:
- Initial assets and needs review prior to the beginning of professional learning
- For classroom teachers: one year of Reading Apprenticeship professional learning to integrate and accelerate students’ subject area learning and literacy
- In-person: 2 consecutive days Summer 2024, 1 day between December 2024 and February 2025, and 2 consecutive days Summer 2025
- Online: 3 two-hour sessions in Fall 2024 and 3 two-hour sessions in Spring 2025
- CEUs will be provided for participation in all professional development activities
- For teacher leaders: additional professional learning to support on-site classroom implementation
- For site leaders: professional learning to support schoolwide implementation in order to grow and sustain literacy gains
- Annual project-wide leadership meeting
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Stipend Information
Stipend eligible participants include teachers who anticipate that they will independently teach at least one section of mainstream ELA, history, and science classes that enroll 5 or more 9th-10th grade students in a typical year during the 2024-25 school year
The stipend total is $700 and will be distributed in Summer 2025.
Stipends will be sent in the form of a check from WestEd. Stipends will be pro-rated based on completion of professional learning and data collection
activities.
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Interested in applying?
Please fill out the interest form to check your districts’ eligibility.
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Contact Us
For more information about this opportunity contact:
Bill Loyd, [email protected]
Deborah Jones, [email protected]
April Spencer, [email protected]