1. Department members will engage in collaborative, grade- level discussion groups to identify successful instructional practices.
2. Content area teachers will incorporate research-based strategies into their daily objectives and practice.

Cooperative Grouping
Reciprocal Teaching
Non-Linguistic Representations
Similarities and Differences
Summarizing and Note-Taking
Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizer
Content-Area Literacy

3. Content area teachers will implement reading strategies modeled via instructional coaching to encourage individual students to scaffold their learning in processing text.
4. Content area teachers will encourage the use of metacognitive strategies in their daily lesson plans and practice: Vocabulary, prior knowledge, Engagement, self-monitoring Questioning the Author.
5. Department members will attend grade-level data based decision-making teams to analyze formative assessment data.
6. Content area teachers will meet monthly in their data analysis teams to inform their instruction.
7. Teachers and administrators will organize data to determine student outcomes.
8. Content area teachers will continue to develop mini-assessments that mirror the CMT in reading comprehension.
9. Teachers will establish a home-school connection to enhance communication.