PA Reading First -- Current Stories

Dennis Sparks states "Leaders matter. Therefore, significant changes in organizations begin with significant changes in what leaders think (depth of understanding and beliefs), say (both the content and form of our speech), and do (a continuous flow of powerful actions within a culture of interpersonal accountability). Leaders consider how their own assumptions, understanding of significant issues and behaviors preserve or push upon current practices."

Thank you for your commitment, persistence, and dedication to the completion of the Providing Instructional Leadership Course in Early Literacy.

These leaders thoughts and actions will shape the culture of their organizations and set the pace for the professional learning that is critical in all of our schools. Research clearly indicates that ongoing, sustained and job embedded professional development is a high level strategy in improving student achievement.

All learning is social and it is with our peers that we often find our own voice as we have new learning and apply it to our own work settings.

The following school leaders have lead the way as the first to complete the course:

James Piccirillo
Melissa Mankey
Mariellen Scott
Dorothea Miller
Paul Kaczmarcik
Ellen Faliskie
Carmen Nocera
Bill Hall
Jean Marie McAteer
Susan Sellers
Renda Wright
Ollie Jones
Arthur Abrom
Bethanne Natali
Cheryl Champion
Ronald Bradley
Debbie DeBlasio
Colleen Hovanec
Joanne Gillespie
Todd Stoltz
Nancy Snyder
Maureen Ungarean
Larry Smith
Janette Hewitt
Camille Hopkins

Deborah Donnelly
Maryanne Hoskins
Michael Lowe
Christopher Cherny
Karen Bloch
Shawn Tuttle
Julie Botel
Marisol Craig
Susan Nock
Rebecca Hostetler
Gary Hess
Lynette Waller
Evelyn Antonsen
Margaret Brown
Frank Vecchio
Melissa Fisher
Gordon Hoodak
Debbie Hummel
Catherine Butcher
Tracy Ocasio
Mary Frances Duncan
M Renee Billops
Laura Nelson-Turner
Barbara Hoffman

Congratulations!