1 semester credit

This is an 8-week course taken concurrently with the methods course EDUC 6689 - Guiding and Supporting School Literacy Environments. Both courses are aligned to Minnesota Reading Teacher standards. Education professionals read and view standards-based learning resources, and they discuss and apply learning objectives in the methods course. Concurrently, they develop the Schoolwide Literacy Plan (SLP) Project in their clinical setting. The SLP Project is designed to bring the course learning and weekly application of the learning into focus via creation of a school-wide literacy improvement plan, collaborative review of the plan with key stakeholders, and evaluation of the impact of the project as a whole on professional growth and student learning.