Penn Literacy Network

What is the Penn Literacy Network?

“The Penn Literacy Network (PLN) is a comprehensive professional development/curricular enhancement/school reform program based in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. PLN has provided on-site and regionally-based credit-bearing or non-credit bearing courses, workshops, coaching programs and leadership training to more than 31,000 PreK-12 educators across the United States and internationally in the areas of reading, writing, special needs, ELL, mathematics, science, and technology since 1981.”- https://www.gse.upenn.edu/pln/about

For more information please visit: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/pln/

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Courses, Workshops, and Curriculum

• PLN 1: Forming & Reforming Reading Writing Talking Across the Curriculum (EDCE533)
  • Garnet Valley School District, PA (2015)
  • Colonial School District, PA (2015)
  • Detroit Public Schools, MI (2010)
  • Springfield Delaware County School District, PA (2006)
  • Northwest Area School District, PA (2006)

• PLN 5: Informational Reading and Writing (EDCE611)
  • Garnet Valley School District, PA (2014)
  • West Chester Area School District, PA (2011)
  • Wissahickon School District, PA (2009)

• PLN 6: Research, Non-fiction Reading, Writing and Technology (EDCE620)
  • Colonial School District, PA (2015)
  • Penn Manor School District, PA (2013)
  • West Chester Area School District, PA (2012)
  • Co-authored updates to this course curriculum to meet 21st Century/Future Ready demands (2011)

• PLN 13: Literacy Study Group (EDCE 613A/638B/618C)
  • West Chester Area School District, PA (2013)
    • Best Practice: Bringing Standards to Life in America’s Classrooms. Hyde, Daniels, & Zemelman (2012)
  • Northwest Area School District, PA (2007)
    • I Read It, but I Don’t Get It. Tovani (2000)

• PLN 15: Engaging Students through Digital Learning Environments (EDCE616)
  • Moorestown Township Public Schools, NJ (2012)

• PLN 18b: Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum Infused with Technology (EDCE622)
  • Garnet Valley School District, PA (2016).
    • Mentor Text: Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, Troy Hicks (2013)
  • Moorestown Township Public Schools, NJ (2011)

• PLN Workshops
  • Garnet Valley SD, PA
    • Coaching Institute for Literacy & Instructional Technology
  • Saint Paul the VI, NJ
    • Future Ready: Teaching and Guiding Digital Age Learners
  • Bishop Eustace College Preparatory School, NJ
    • Writing Across the Content Areas-Collins Writing Program
  • Moorestown Township Public Schools, NJ
    • Engaging Students through the Use of Digital Portfolios
  • University of Pennsylvania Summer Leadership Week
    • Transacting with Text, Learning to Learn & Infographics & Visual Learning: “Reading Like a Writer: Infographics”
    • Integrating Composing Text, Learning to Learn & Digital Storytelling: “Writing like an Author”
    • Extending Reading and Writing Through Genius Hour/20% Time
    • Engaging Students through the Use of Digital Portfolios
    • Students Today: Creating Digital Citizens