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CALL

What is CALL?

CALL institutes provide secondary educators with the tools and skills necessary to analyze the academic language demands of course-specific texts and materials. CALL supports teachers in designing effective instruction that meets those demands.

Unique Program Features

  • It is based on a comprehensive framework for literacy that helps to demystify the particular components that are causing challenges for students.
  • It helps teachers access and respond to needs through differentiated instruction.
  • There is a focus on academic content-area text and scaffolded support to access the text.
  • It contains teacher tools to support text analysis and lesson planning.
  • There is a focus on sustained collaboration and implementation through a professional learning community model geared towards secondary teachers.
  • It provides models for explicit instruction in academic and comprehension strategies.
  • It includes strategies for differentiation across level of English Proficiency for English Learners.
  • It addresses multiple factors that influence student motivation and engagement.

Outcomes

The institute’s objectives are as follows:

CALL Offers

  • Middle and high school content teachers practical, research-based instructional routines that help students access and engage with a variety of complex text across content areas.

CALL Provides

  • Teachers instructional routines that make challenging text accessible, relevant, and comprehensible to all students, including English learners.

CALL Promotes

  • SEBT includes assessment specifically designed to support the transferability of reading foundational skills.

“Using these strategies has helped me do a better job in “Backward planning,” thus preparing my students better for the Benchmark Test. My students have improved 21% from last year. They are writing better and their grades are higher.”

- Secondary Teacher, Monterey

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