Show Me Literacies Collaborative
Supporting language and literacy development for Missouri learners, birth through college
Advancing literacy education and supporting teachers in Missouri
We are working to advance literacy education research and provide direct support and outreach to PreK-12 teachers and their students across the state of Missouri. The Collaborative includes literacy experts from the Missouri Writing Project Network (UMSL, Mizzou and UCM) and the Missouri Language and Literacies Center at the University of Missouri in partnership with the Missouri Reading Initiative.
Our Goals
Strengthen culturally sustaining pedagogies
Create a community of practice focused on language and literacy
Establish an environment supportive of literacy learning
Support teacher knowledge and implementation of research-based literacy practices
Regions
We split our work into 3 main regions:
Early Childhood Language and Literacies
Show Me Literacies partners with Early Childhood Language and Literacies via the Missouri Language and Literacies Center (MLLC) to transform literacy education for today and tomorrow.
Five-year Partnership to Advance Literacy Education and Support Teachers in Missouri
Missouri’s Comprehensive Literacy State Development Program grant totals over $18 million. This five-year partnership will advance literacy education research, and provides direct support and outreach to PreK-12 teachers, their students, and higher education across the state of Missouri. The Show Me Literacies Collaborative includes literacy experts from the Missouri Writing Project Network (UMSL, Mizzou and UCM) and the Missouri Language and Literacies Center at the University of Missouri in partnership with the Missouri Reading Initiative.
Many of these partners have collaborated previously, but this current grant is unique in that it provides federal funding as a comprehensive statewide literacy collaborative funded by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
Our Partnership with MWPN
The Missouri Writing Projects Network is a source of professional development for teachers around the state. Online and in-person events are available at each location.
Literacy Action Plans
We support literacy teams at grant schools in writing literacy actions plans. Our approach to literacy plan design supports teachers through sustained professional learning around co-constructed goals and initiates an iterative process of inquiry, revision, and growth. This collaborative and responsive design for creating literacy action plans paired with the complexity of literacy can lead to an unpredictable and messy process. Thus, we used the principles shown here to guide this important work in schools.
