Helping RI Improve Reading Outcomes
RIDE-Approved Vendor
HILL for Literacy has been approved to provide professional development and coaching to Rhode Island districts around HQCM/Core Program Implementation. We’d love to talk with you about how the HILL can help your schools!
HILL for Literacy (or the HILL) is a tech-enabled literacy consultancy whose work is grounded in 40+ years of research. We’re experts in both the science of reading and the science of implementation. We can help your school take the insights from that research and put it into practice in your classrooms.
When we partner with a school, we organize and enrich the existing literacy elements. We provide customized training, building on the strengths and experience of the teachers and integrating the literacy efforts classroom by classroom. To make lasting change, the whole system needs to participate in designing goals and remain involved in the improvement efforts. We systematically facilitate this effort.
What’s it like to work with the HILL? Let our clients tell you!
Boost Your Teachers’ Confidence Implementing Curriculum
The selection of high-quality curriculum material (HQCM) is one of the most impactful decisions a district can make. HILL For Literacy is your partner to ensure you make the most of your investment. We bring clarity to the selection process and build confidence in teachers and leaders using these new materials.
HQCM Implementation Goals
Our primary goals for HQCM Implementation are to support educators to:
- make judicious choices that align program components with data-informed student need
- align these HQCM choices across grade levels and vertically within schools
The HILL’s HQCM implementation support supplements and extends the initial training provided by publishers. Publishing companies often provide the “what” helping teachers know what the components are. The HILL provides the “Why” and “How” to align the materials with individual student needs.
Next, the HILL builds a scope of support in collaboration with district/school partners to focus on select components, materials, and methodologies that tailor instruction to best match the program to the students. This achieves “fidelity with integrity.”
HQCM Implementation Structures
The HILL works with district and school leaders to develop tailored professional learning opportunities that meet their specific needs and challenges. We offer five essential structures designed to support the ongoing implementation of HQCM.
HQCM Leadership Collaborative Planning
We work collaboratively with district leaders to create a district-specific sequence of topics and design a learning path that meets the needs of the district and supports effective implementation.
HQCM Implementation-Coaches Meetings
Coaches Meetings provide coaches/ teacher leaders with training and tools to turnkey content to classroom teachers in their schools and provide ongoing on-site support.
HQCM Grade Level Implementation Meetings
HILL facilitators work with educators (or with a district/school coach in the ToT model) to engage directly with one focus topic per meeting determined through the Leadership Collaborative Planning process.
HQCM Direct Teacher Coaching
A HILL Facilitator works intensively with teachers to reflect on their practices, refine skills and proficiency with evidence-based strategies for teaching and learning, and set professional goals using their HQCM as the foundation.
HQCM/Core Program Self-Paced Implementation Series
The HILL’s HQCM/Core Literacy Program Implementation Series empowers educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to effectively implement HQCM, ensuring data-driven, aligned, and purposeful instructional practices that lead to improved student reading outcomes. See below for details.
HQCM/Core Program Self-Paced Implementation Series
Our asynchronous implementation series is most beneficial to educators who have engaged in recent Science of Reading training because they will easily make connections between why an instructional practice is important, how the instructional practice is best utilized and which material(s) from the HQCM should be used to do this.
This course of study can be used as a framework to achieve “fidelity with integrity,” and is critical content and supplemental reference material for the HQCM implementation support discussed above. Our eight-session series may be used to drive sustainability of systems, structures, and processes when in person consultation services are inaccessible, internal expertise/leadership is unavailable, or when HQCM implementation is no longer a school- or district-wide focus.
Topics:
Microcourse 1: Guide for Literacy Leaders for Year 1 Program Implementation
Microcourse 2: Building and Utilizing a Pacing Guide
Microcourse 3: Whole Group/Small Group Template
Microcourse 4: Features of Effective Instruction: Foundational Skills Lesson
Microcourse 5: Instructional Routines in the Foundational Skills Block
Microcourse 6: Building Background and Vocabulary
Microcourse 7: Independent Student Work
Microcourse 8: Program Assessments
Explore Our Services
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
The HILL partners with school and department leaders, and educators themselves, to transform education systems. Educators are given the tools to evaluate current literacy practices and build a multi-tiered system of support utilizing evidence-based methods through the use of valid and reliable screening measures, high-quality instructional materials, an embedded professional development plan, and systems for measuring the fidelity of implementation and effectiveness of instruction.
The Science of Reading Series (Live, Virtual)
Our Science of Reading Professional Learning Series teaches critical components of literacy instruction for Early Childhood, Primary, or Intermediate Grades, or Administrators, integrating current research into each module and translating it into classroom application. We also offer Digging Deeper into the Science of Reading—10 additional modules that dig in deeper to topics introduced in Modules 1-10. Choose this option if you have the required professional learning time in your professional learning schedule. Each module requires 2.5 hours of delivery and guided practice time.
Science of Reading Series (Asynchronous)
Our Science of Reading Professional Learning Series teaches critical components of literacy instruction for Primary, Intermediate Grades, and Adolescent Content-Area Literacy integrating current research into each module and translating it into classroom application. Each module is broken into 15-20 minute segments with ongoing pauses for integration of the learning. Choose this option if your professional learning time is limited or if an asynchronous format would work best for your educators.
Adolescent Literacy Series (Live, Virtual)
The Adolescent Literacy Series translates findings of research in adolescent literacy to increase teacher knowledge and provide teachers with practices that can be immediately used in their daily content area classrooms in grades six through twelve. Teachers will better understand the needs of adolescent learners in relation to literacy and how to support access to the core curriculum and complex text through a focus on disciplinary literacy. Choose this option if you have the required professional learning time in your professional learning schedule. Each module requires 2.5 hours of delivery and guided practice time.
Small Group Instruction Introductory Series
The HILL’s asynchronous Small Group Instruction Introductory Series provides teachers in-depth, directed training on how to plan and implement effective Small Group Lesson Plans for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. It is designed to provide teachers the knowledge and ability to begin using the small group lesson plans right from the start of the school year.
HILL Online
HILL Online is a suite of applications that guides the installation, implementation, and sustainability of the HILL for Literacy Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework.
All our online trainings can be bundled with live, virtual application sessions, coaches meetings, or implementation meetings to support district needs. Plus, in addition to our online and asynchronous services, we can offer Personalized Onsite Consultation and Implementation Support. Contact us using the form below to learn more!
Learn More About How The HILL Can Help Your District!
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