Partner Profile
American Reading Company
ARC's mission: every student reading/writing on or above grade level
American Reading Company was approved for the PLPG in August 2020.
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How are partners selected for the PL Partner Guide?
OUR TEAM
51+ facilitators/coaches
26-50% are non-white
WHERE WE WORK
We have worked here
We are also willing to work here
WHO WE ARE
Founded and run by educators, with 100% employee ownership, American Reading Company is committed to nurturing district and school leaders' capacity, excelling at transforming school culture for sustainable achievement. With a 25-year track record of delivering effective professional learning through job-embedded, elbow-to-elbow coaching aligned to high-quality instructional materials, ARC has a unique ability to produce, iterate, and integrate curricular materials to coincide with the vision, mission, and values that states and individual districts hold dear.
TYPES OF SUPPORT WE OFFER
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- Adopting an ELA curriculum
- Adopting a math curriculum
- Adopting a science curriculum
- Initial implementation
- Ongoing implementation support for teachers
- Educator Coaching
- Leadership Support for Coaching
- Collaborative Planning
- Ongoing implementation support for leaders
What are these phases?
Types of districts that we have experience working with
- 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
Why is this important?
OUR CURRICULUM EXPERTISE
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We are the author/publisher
ELA
- ARC (American Reading Company) Core (2017)
What is a high quality curriculum?
This partner's approach and services
Sample scopes of work
Initial implementation Ongoing support for teachers Ongoing support for leadersWhat are these scopes?
How we address equity
ARC's PL helps teachers and leaders use culturally diverse HQIM and data tracking tools to “see their system”—finding areas where inequity is exacerbated. Executive Coaches, who have earned the ARC Coach Certification™, guide educators to develop stronger abilities to identify and disrupt systemic educational inequities through a change management model that: (1) locates “bright spots” where individual educators make a real difference, (2) uses responsive pedagogy and literacy instructional best practices to identify positive differences, (3) creates a lovingly accountable adult learning culture, and (4) tracks data to ensure outcomes change and intervene when they don't.
Why is this important?
How we build district capacity
ARC supports LEAs as they build capacity to successfully implement ARC Core®. Beginning the implementation with launch workshops, teachers are introduced to the high-quality instructional materials, structures, and routines of ARC Core. Ongoing coaching provides teachers with immediately applicable supports through modeling, collaborative planning, and one-to-one coaching focused on improving student outcomes. Through ARC's system design and leadership support, LEA leaders are equipped to monitor and support their implementation through continuous improvement cycles focused on student outcomes.
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