What is the difference between the ELA Academy and the content area academy?
Participants in the ELA academy will receive training in successful, research-based literacy strategies that will assist students in comprehending and learning the content in their classroom materials. They will also be trained to use a progress monitoring assessment to inform their instruction applying aligned intervention strategies designed to meet struggling readers’ individual needs. The academy will consist of the three days of face-to-face training and a one-day practicum follow-up with online documentation to be submitted between September and December of the same year. Participants in the content area academy will receive training in successful, research-based literacy strategies that will assist students in comprehending and learning the content in their classroom materials. The academy will consist of the one-and-a-half days of face-to-face training and a one-half-day practicum follow-up with online documentation to be submitted between September and December of the same yea
