Literacy: The Role of State Support Teams
Improving Literacy Related to the Ohio Improvement Process
State Support Teams support the area of literacy that is related to goals determined through the Ohio Improvement Process (OIP). The Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) is Ohio’s strategy for ensuring a systematic and coherent approach for building the capacity of all districts and schools in meaningful and real ways that allow districts to improve instructional practice on a district-wide basis, and make and sustain significant improvement in student performance against grade-level benchmarks aligned with academic content standards for all students across the district.
The State Support Team Region 1 provides assistance to districts for literacy through professional development, assistance for the Walk Through Tool, training for literacy and instructional coaches, and support for the Content Literacy Continuum model. The target audience for these services are special education intervention specialists and general educators and coaches of teachers who serve students with disabilities and other students at risk for school failure.