HILL for Literacy

HILL for Literacy’s team includes 28 Facilitators, of which 30% are from diverse backgrounds or underserved populations. HILL for Literacy is composed of literacy content professionals who are experts in the fields of classroom teaching, coaching, special education, and instructional leadership. The HILL team consists of facilitators who have worked in Special Education, Educational Leadership, School Psychology, Speech Language Pathology and as Reading Coaches, Reading Specialists, Early Childhood Teachers, Math, Science, Technology, and General Education Classroom Teacher positions. The HILL team includes Multilingual Learner Teachers who are also bilingual in English and Spanish. Several HILL facilitators also have knowledge working in dual-language classrooms and have earned licensure to teach English as a second language as well as advanced degrees in English as a Second Language and Multicultural Education.

HILL empowers educators to effectively implement HQIM and deliver exceptional, highly targeted instruction for every student. HILL is also a RIVET PLPG-vetted professional learning provider and has the expertise to support the adoption and implementation of HQIM across a diverse set of classrooms and schools. HILL’s SOR professional learning is built from empirical evidence centering knowledge and skills related to the reading process. The SOR series translates research findings to practice as educator proficiency in evidence-based knowledge and practices. The series presents a methodology for supporting educators in implementing equitable instruction using HQIM, including culturally and linguistically sustaining practices in their classrooms.

The HILL helps build district capacity across all stakeholders including district leaders, building leaders, and teachers. This requires a strategic, collaborative, and sustained approach and HILL Professional Learning aims to reinforce these components. By establishing a shared vision and goals, building collaborative structures, and providing high-quality professional learning in The Science of Reading to inform HQIM implementation, HILL offers strategic, inclusive, and sustained approach.

The HILL believes that access drives equity. We offer educators structures, strategies and routines that reinforce this focus on student access. The HILL’s HQIM implementation approach, informed by professional learning in the Science of Reading, offers “fidelity with integrity.” The HILL guides educators to systematically learn each component of their HQIM, understand the reading science behind each material, strategy or routine, and identify how, when and with whom to use it. Equity is prioritized as teachers are supported in optimizing the learning for each student as driven by data. Coherence guides HILL’s approach to implementation so that instructional integrity spans across all classrooms, grade levels, and schools within the district.

Assessments are embedded throughout the course, including:

• 20-question untimed Knowledge Inventory (pre-assessment) following the course overview but preceding Tool 1 content
• 5-question untimed tests following Part 1 of each tool’s content (10 total)
• 10-question untimed tests following Part 2 of each tool’s content (10 total)
• 20-question untimed Knowledge Inventory (post-assessment) following completion of all course content.
• Participants must score at least 80 percent on each assessment to unlock content for the next Part or Tool in the course.

As an asynchronous course, participants can access Top 10 Tools whenever and wherever is convenient, including during the contractual school day.

Ongoing Implementation: Support for Teachers

Part 2 Professional Learning: Science of Reading

• Traditional District
• Charter
• Private
• Parochial
• Urban
• Suburban
• Rural
• Fewer than 2,500 students
• 2,500 to 10,000 students
• 10,000 to 50,000 students
• 50,000 to 100,000 students
• More than 100,000 students
• Greater than 60% of economically disadvantaged students
• Greater than 20% of English language learners
• Greater than 20% of students with disability
• Greater than 80% students of color

Google folder that includes:

1. Copy of this Response Form
2. HILL for Literacy Adolescent Literacy Flyer
3. HILL for Literacy HQIM-Core Program Flyer
4. HILL for Literacy Science of Reading Flyer – Intermediate
5. HILL for Literacy Science of Reading Flyer – Primary
6. HILL HQIM Essential Structures