{"id":70461,"date":"2016-06-02T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70461"},"modified":"2016-06-02T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:03:29","slug":"coehs-hosts-12th-literacy-across-the-curriculum-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/06\/coehs-hosts-12th-literacy-across-the-curriculum-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"COEHS hosts 12th Literacy Across the Curriculum Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Delta State University\u2019s College of Education and Human Sciences kicked off its 12th Literacy Across the Curriculum Institute for Teachers of Grades 6-12 (LACI) on Wednesday. The institute is designed to enable teachers in middle and secondary schools to effectively incorporate the teaching of literacy skills in their respective content areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;LACI\u2019s curriculum will be rigorous and broad in scope to enable both new and experienced teachers to attain highly qualified status according to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,&#8221; said\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Merideth Van Namen, LACI director. &#8220;P<\/span><span class=\"s1\">articipants will gain skills regarding the Mississippi Curriculum Frameworks, test blueprints provided by the Mississippi Department of Education, College and Career Ready Standards, national standards, and data driven instruction and performance based assessments.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">LACI is provided through the support of the No Child Left Behind Act: Improving Teacher Quality State Grant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Participants in this year\u2019s institute represent various school districts from the Mississippi Delta who are eager to improve their classroom instruction and student performance. They will attend the 22-day institute, which includes one session\u00a0in June and follow-up sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly excited. I am so eager to learn how to improve my classroom,&#8221; said participant Brandy Davis. &#8220;I\u2019m hoping this is also the push I need to continue learning by getting my master\u2019s in education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with\u00a0Van Namen, the LACI administrative team includes\u00a0Dr. Janet Parker, instructor, and Pam Maxwell, instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Van Namen at <a href=\"mailto:mvannamen@deltastate.edu\"><span class=\"s2\">mvannamen@deltastate.edu<\/span><\/a> or 662-846-4412 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University\u2019s College of Education and Human Sciences kicked off its 12th Literacy Across the Curriculum Institute for Teachers of Grades 6-12 (LACI) on Wednesday. The institute is designed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":70463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,296],"tags":[701,1544],"class_list":["post-70461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-college-of-education-and-human-sciences","category-facultystaff","tag-coehs","tag-literacy-across-the-curriculum-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70461"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70469,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70461\/revisions\/70469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}