Literacy is a huge goal for the next several years at the school. In order for our students to continue to improve, to continue to meet AYP and become proficient on the MCAS requirements, the students (with the help of their teachers) must work on becoming more and more literate. This will be a tough task, since the students have been brought up in such an electronic world and with more and more students having less reading and writing in their backgrounds as they come into high school.

We can do it!

Content-Area-Strategies-Adolescent-Literacy. Strategies. Try a new one every day.

Readicide How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It-Kelly Gallagher Books
Scary stuff. Kelly Gallagher is a urban high school teacher in California and has a wealth of great ideas and experiences.

Teaching Adolescent Writers - Kelly Gallagher Books Lots of good ideas.

Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes This has nothing to do with literacy, but it's a darn good book.
It will change your ideas if you are a runner. If you don't run, read the book and you will run.
McDougall has opened up many eyes and changed the way the running shoe companies make and market their products.
Read on.