News

August 20, 2010

LPS and CK-12 Foundation Introduce“College Access Readers”

Leadership Public Schools and CK-12 Foundation announce the publication of the “Introduction to College Access Readers”. The manual provides an overview of proven strategies for embedding literacy instruction throughout a standards-based, college preparatory curriculum. The strategies and resources described in this guide will enable educators throughout California and beyond to address one of the most pressing needs in urban education today: how to teach rigorous content and literacy skills simultaneously.

Preparing urban high school students for college – particularly those students who enter high school performing significantly below grade level – requires an approach that is uniformly rigorous, yet flexible enough to address individual student needs. Together, CK-12 and LPS are creating a line of curriculum resources, the “College Access Readers,” tailored to the most challenging demographic in California and the nation.

This resource guide represents the collaborative effort of many members of the Leadership Public Schools development team. Each chapter includes examples drawn from the “College Access Readers” being launched in Algebra, Geometry, Biology, and US History. It begins by outlining the theory underlying the literacy work and then lays out the framework for the supports included in the Readers. Subsequent chapters describe and illustrate the specific content literacy and language development strategies that have been chosen as being of particularly high impact.

All four texts as well as the overview and guide, “Introduction to College Access Readers" , will be available as free, open-source, online flexbooks through CK-12 Foundation this fall.