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ERIC ED489528: Stepping Stones to Evaluating Your Own School Literacy Program

Stepping Stones to Literacy is a tool for elementary school improvement teams to evaluate and strengthen their reading programs. Each Stepping Stone is a guided activity to stimulate reflection and guide systematic inquiry. It is a collaborative, active research approach to evaluation (Levesque & Hinton 2001). The goal is to eliminate the gap between what the school improvement team states it believes about good reading programs and classroom instruction and actual program practices that work well consistently. Each chapter introduces key elements of effective schoolwide reading programs with a brief description of research-based practices. These are followed by action guides, called Stepping Stones, that direct the improvement team's attention to critically evaluate the actual program practices going on in their building. These action guides then include directions for following up on program facets in need of improvement. Whether used in part or whole, as a formal part of improvement planning or an informal reflection guide, "Stepping Stones" can help school teams gather information essential both for understanding the gaps in implementation of their reading program and for devel

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