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The UCA Mashburn Center for Learning is excited to announce the success of it's annual Arkansas Adolescent Literacy Intervention (AALI) Leadership Summit that was held on February 21 at the Conway Hilton Garden Inn. This year's summit had two primary goals. First, there was a summit focus on the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC), a school wide instructional approach designed to improve adolescent literacy for all students. In the midst of the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), RTI will be alive and well. This summit provided AALI school teams that include administrators, instructional facilitators, and teacher leaders an opportunity to learn and plan for how to take existing AALI components and additional resources to create a tiered model of intervention to support implementation of the CCSS.

There also was a discussion on our ability to maintain and sustain AALI. As you know, the easiest step for the use of an intervention is in the beginning. It is much more challenging to maintain and sustain such interventions, especially at an appropriate level of fidelity.

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Coffman Awarded the J. D. and Mary Lou Mashburn Award

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Latest news from AALI

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