Improving Literacy Instruction Through University and P12 Partnerships: Using the SPICE Early Literacy Grant to Foster Literacy Instruction

Improving Literacy Instruction Through University and P12 Partnerships: Using the SPICE Early Literacy Grant to Foster Literacy Instruction

Charles William Kemp, Sandra Lee Beam, Kimberly D. Cassidy
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3443-7.ch004
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Abstract

The Strategic Partnering for Integrated Comprehensive Systems in Education (SPICE Early Literacy Grant) focused on supporting authentic, meaningful, and sustainable university-school district partnerships to promote inclusive models of preparation and personnel development for educators, improving equitable access to high-quality instruction and equitable outcomes for struggling learners and funding development efforts that supported shared inquiry into common problems of practice related to improving reading results for all learners. A Midwestern university's School of Education partnered with a local low-resourced school district whose reading scores based-upon the district report card system in Ohio continue to fall below proficient. By providing Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS), training to inservice teachers and providing the theory of LETRS during teacher preparation training to preservice teacher candidates, a strong partnership takes place during the clinical field experience.
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Background

For several years the Ohio Deans Compact on Exceptional Children (Deans) has offered incentive grants to university teacher preparation programs to support the development of innovative practices. The Ohio Deans Compact on Exceptional Children

promotes shared understanding and collective action to improve learning and results for all children, especially those from marginalized groups (e.g., students with disabilities, students who are economically disadvantaged). Members believe that all children learn to higher levels when they are taught by adults with the necessary knowledge, competencies, and dispositions. To that end, the Compact strives to increase inclusive models of teacher, educational leadership, and related services preparation so that all education professionals are better able to teach and support all learners (Ohio Deans, 2022).

The School of Education (SoE) at Shawnee State University (SSU), is the premier institution serving schools and district across southeastern Ohio concerning teacher preparation. A uniqueness of the institution is that 74% of all SSU students identify as First Generation (First Gen) college students. To better fulfill its mission, in 2013-14, SSU’s SoE became an incentive grant recipient to develop an early childhood blended licensure program in order to prepare early childhood teachers to meet the needs of ALL students in today’s classrooms.

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