Staff Development Planning Document

Title of Unit
Curriculum Area
Developed By

Using the Lexile

Framework and
Technology
Technology/Literacy

Grade
Level

K-5 teachers

Time
Frame

15-20 minutes

Diandra Walker

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)

Content Standards
Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and
assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content
learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in
the NETSS.
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and
resources to promote student learning and creativity
b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to
pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their
own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own
progress
c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students diverse
learning styles,
working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources
d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments

aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform
learning and teaching
Understandings
Overarching Understanding
Understand how to integrate the Lexile Framework
into classroom instruction.
The benefits of using the Lexile Framework.
during reading instructions
The benefits of using technology to integrate
the Lexile Framework.
Related Misconceptions
The Lexile Framework is a reading program.

Essential Questions
Overarching
Topical
How can the
How can I find
Lexile
online reading
Framework, along material that is
with technology, supported by
benefit reading
the Lexile
instruction?
Framework.

The Lexile Framework is an assessment.

The Lexile Framework is an educational
software.
Knowledge
Teachers will know
What the Lexile Framework for Reading is
Various technological resources supported by

Skills
Teachers will be able to
Learn about free Lexile resources to
support learning in the classroom, library
and home.

the Lexile Framework

Use technology resources to integrate

the Lexile Framework into Reading
instruction

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2)

Performance Task Description
The goal of this professional development is to provide staff
members with technology resources that can be used to
integrate the Lexile Framework into Reading. These will be a
Goal
variety of websites and apps that can be used during
instructional time that will keep students engaged during
Reading.
Teachers will take on the role of the students during this
professional development. They will be using the different
Role tools from the perspectives of their students as well as from
the perspective of the teacher. They will be asked to bring
their laptops, as this will be a hands-on learning lab
Audience The audience will be the teachers and students.
Teachers are to create a free account on the Lexile web page
Situation and find different articles about a common subject using the
resources provided.
Product/Performan Teachers will be required to participate by sharing their ideas
ce at the conclusion of the professional development.
Teacher participation during and at the conclusion will be
Standards
judged based on observation.

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

Where are your students
headed? Where have they
been? How will you make sure
the students know where they
are going?
How will you hook students at
the beginning of the unit?
What events will help students
experience and explore the big
idea and questions in the unit?
How will you equip them with
needed skills and knowledge?
How will you cause students to
reflect and rethink? How will
you guide them in rehearsing,
revising, and refining their
work?
How will you help students to
exhibit and self-evaluate their
growing skills, knowledge, and
understanding throughout the
unit?

Explain to the teachers what the Lexile

Framework is and what it is not so that they
can become familiar with what we are working
with.
I will hook the educators by showing them
videos of frustrated readers and frustrated
teachers.
I will show the teachers a presentation that
explains how we can use the Lexile Framework
in Reading and how this can be supported by
using technology.
During the presentation, I will stop to ask the
staff members if they have any questions,
concerns, or comments about anything I have
gone over.
Before the professional development, I will
have teachers to complete a survey about
what they know about the Lexile Framework. I
will give the same survey after the
professional development so that they can

measure their growth.