PLN Training

The next installment in the blog series will discuss the Pennsylvania Literacy (PLN) training that is being incorporated into the school district.  PLN is a literacy and writing strategy that all teachers can embed into every curricular area in the school district.  The training comes from the University of Pennsylvania.  As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, literacy is a gatekeeper skill for our students.  I view it as a moral obligation to assure that all of our students are given every possible opportunity to excel at Reading.  The school district spends a lot of time, effort and programs to make sure our students have a great start in the elementary school for their literacy training.  PLN serves as the next step in this process.  The strategies used in PLN are geared toward the middle school and high school students.  The school district has trained about 25 teachers this summer and there are plans to train another 20 in October.  Teachers who have been through the training have told me that it was the best training they have ever had.  I have had teachers share with me their plans on how they will incorporate the strategies they learned at PLN training into their classrooms in this upcoming school year.  The ultimate goal of all of our pilot programs is to help teachers provide the best educational experiences for or students.  PLN is a great example of teachers being able to take practical strategies from training and incorporate them immediately into their classroom to help their practice.  The administration will study how well the PLN strategies are being embedded into the classroom to determine whether to expand the training to more teachers.