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/
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)
- West Chester Area School District, PA (2013)
- 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)
- Garnet Valley School District, PA (2016).
- 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
- Garnet Valley SD, PA