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Welcome to the KCSDPLN1 Wiki

__ OVERVIEW: __
===  Throughout this course, participants learn and share a variety of practical strategies and research based frameworks for integrating PLN into their schools to encourage student engagement with rich reading/writing/talking best practices across the curriculum. Participants also engage in learning experiences that are rich in problem-solving, critical thinking, and logical reasoning including discussions about how to adapt these approaches for inclusion students. This is not an add-on approach to teaching and learning; it is a set of theoretical frameworks for guiding best practice and decision-making using whatever curricula is in place. The course provides opportunities for hands-on learning, reflection and the development of common language about literacy === The Four Lenses of Learning and The Five Reading/Writing/Talking Processes are the foundation of PLN 1. Participants will think about the implementation and support of outstanding practice in classrooms in terms of how teaching and learning reflect these interrelated PLN frameworks.

Participants will integrate the Common Core Standards into PLN lesson design.

Participants are active readers, writers, talkers and listeners in this course. The course provides a paradigm for classroom engagement that is best learned through experience. We are a community of learners and we all contribute to one another’s professional growth.

__OBJECTIVES:__
This continuing education, graduate level, credit-bearing course examines approaches for incorporating reading, writing, talking, listening and thinking across the curriculum. Participants read, write, talk, listen and think about the implementation of this framework. In addition, they develop units that include lessons that incorporate reading, writing, talking, listening and thinking. Central to “//The Plainer Truths” (the PLN 1 required text)// are The **Four Lenses of Learning** that reflect the framework’s perspective on language, literacy, and learning. These lenses identify lifetime, successful teaching and learning as: The framework also includes The **Five Reading/Writing/Talking Processes** that immerse students in reading, writing, talking, and listening across the curriculum: This wiki is a work in progress. Information will be added throughout the course.
 * Meaning-centered
 * Social
 * Language-based
 * Human
 * Transacting With Text
 * Composing Text
 * Extending Reading and Writing
 * Investigating Language
 * Learning to Learn

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