April 10, 2025
CLLI Committee: I would like to recommend Liz for the Learning Strategy Content Literacy Leadership Institute. She has been an integral part of the Charleston County Implementation Plan for SIM for the past two years. She has attended many of the Professional Development sessions in Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing and Sentence Writing Strategies offered for the Charleston County Department of Exceptional Children since 2023. As a Middle School Instructional Specialist in the Department of Exceptional Children district office, Liz does not have a classroom. After attending the first Professional Development for Paraphrasing and Summarizing, she prepared and modeled lessons in one middle school classroom to build her experience in the strategy. This enabled her to provide great suggestions to teachers during some of the future PDs. Although her initial plan was to obtain Specialist Micro-credentials, she decided to participate in the South Carolina CLLI Cadre. I had the opportunity to observe her fidelity requirements for the CLLI. During my observation of Fundamentals of Paraphrasing and Summarizing, Liz definitely followed the instructional sequence of the strategy. She had made color-coded modifications of the materials for the students and had a great rapport with them.Liz has been in the Charleston School District for 20 years. She began as a high school resource teacher and transitioned to the district office. During this time, she has attended trainings for Cognitive Coaching Strategies, Language ! Live train the trainer, Corrective Reading and TransMath math strategies. Liz provides both district-wide and school-based training on a range of topics, including assessment programs, instructional strategies, accommodations, scaffolding, co-teaching models for her instructional support to teachers. She also collaborates with school-based coaches in middle grades to evaluate student achievement and assist teachers with grouping and making decisions for differentiated instruction. Liz attended all the coaching sessions for middle school teachers that we offered during the first implementation year of SIM.I will be happy to mentor Liz through the LS CLLI requirements. Although challenges with ensuring manuals were available to the teachers have come up, the CCS team persisted in manual dispersal. I strongly support her implementation and acknowledge the efforts to coordinate SIM PD and implementation across a large district.
Respectfully submitted, Debbie Higginbotham
SIM LS PD Institute
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