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THE NEVADA STATE LITERACY PLAN
Essential 1: Leadership and Sustainability
Nevada State Literacy Plan
BIRTH – PRE-K LITERACY SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL
Essential #1.
LEADERSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY
Level 1
No Planning or
Implementation in place
Level 2
Strategic Planning
is in place
Level 3
Beginning Level of
Implementation
Level 4
Expanded Level of
Implementation
1. Instructional leaders have established measurable literacy goals that explicitly align to the NELDS
(Nevada Early Learning Development Standards). These include the Nevada Infant-Toddler
Learning Guidelines (Birth – Age 3) and the Nevada Pre-K Standards (Ages 4-5) with particular
attention being made to Nevada’s Pre-Kindergarten Standards Common Core Crosswalk.
Level 5
Sustained Practice
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2. Instructional leaders establish a literacy management system that includes data-based decisionmaking
in order to ensure continuous improvement. 1 2 3 4 5
3. Instructional leaders have established specific plans for educating Nevada families about the
critical role that they play in the Birth-Pre-K stage of emergent literacy. (Methods for informing
Nevada families who are not accessing any formal daycare or school experience have been
identified).
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4. Instructional leaders have developed research-based literacy goals targeted for all students that
include customized goals for children and families of Nevada’s struggling sub-populations. 1 2 3 4 5
5. Instructional leaders effectively direct the education of children, families, school sites, and entire
communities about the critical role that both oral language and reading play in the development of
emergent literacy.
6. Instructional leaders research the statistical reliability and validity of the assessment, instruction,
and intervention resources to be utilized through national resources such as the What Works
website and the What Works Clearinghouse.
7. Site-level instructional leaders have established a culture that includes the “collective efforts of
teams of educators who work together to influence and inspire” one another by assisting every
teacher to reach his/her potential in literacy instruction and every child to reach his/her potential
in literacy achievement.
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8. Site-level instructional leaders consistently update their own professional knowledge base on all
aspects of effective literacy instruction. 1 2 3 4 5
9. OVERALL LEVEL OF THIS ESSENTIAL
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Action Ideas for Leadership & Sustainability:
Birth to Pre-K Literacy Plan
(BOARD OF REGENTS 12/03/15 & 12/04/15) Ref. BOR-25, Page 28 of 241
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