Project RAISSE
" Project RAISSE has really changed the way I try to teach my classes on a daily basis...to reflect on the techniques that were working for my students."
- Nicole Tune, Gilbert High School, Gilbert, SC -
 Mission - The mission of the University of South Carolina's Project RAISSE is to enhance reading achievement and reading instruction in high schools.
Approach - The approach is to design and offer professional development for teachers that will help them understand the reading process specific to content area reading, develop the knowledge base needed to make informed and effective curricular and instructional decisions about reading, and thereby positively affect student reading proficiency and achievement. |
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Targeted Audience - The targeted audience is teachers in high schools that are situated in school districts in the State of South Carolina.
Activities - The Project's activities include Literacy Graduate Study, Collegial Study Groups, and a Teachers as Professional Leaders Program.
- Literacy Graduate Study will include 6-hours of graduate study funded Year One for 8 selected classroom teacher-leaders led by faculty in the Language and Literacy Program at the University of South Carolina. These teachers will build strong foundational knowledge in the teaching of reading and writing during Year One.
- Collegial Study Groups will be established during Year Two as those 8 selected teachers lead school-based, content area study groups at their school, sharing their literacy learning with colleagues. Teacher-participants in these study groups will receive 3 graduate credit hours per year for their participation in a content area literacy study group via an annual distance education course facilitated by USC Language and Literacy Program faculty.
- Teachers as Professional Leaders Program will include ongoing professional development opportunities for teachers to enhance and share their literacy learning with colleagues at the local, state, and national levels.
Additionally - In addition to the activities outlined above, the Project will be guided by an educational research agenda and corresponding program evaluation plan.
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