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<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Please share within your networks!<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<h1 style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><a href="https://mainedoenews.net/2024/06/13/media-release-maine-department-of-education-offers-educators-free-access-to-evidence-based-literacy-modules/">Media Release: Maine
Department of Education Offers Educators Free Access to Evidence-Based Literacy Modules</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#1E1E1E">Steps to Literacy Modules Build on Maine’s Extensive Efforts to Support Literacy Instruction</span></em><span style="color:#1E1E1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1E1E1E">Augusta, ME<em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">—</span></em>To support educators in providing evidence-based literacy instruction, the Maine Department of Education (DOE)
<b>announced that all K-5 educators have free access to high-quality literacy modules through June of 2025.</b> Educators who complete the modules by August 23, 2024, will be eligible to receive a stipend for each completed module.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1E1E1E">These literacy modules build on the work of the Maine DOE to support literacy instruction across Maine, including the $10 million in grant funding for schools to develop, expand, and enhance evidence-based core literacy instruction
and targeted interventions for Maine students announced earlier this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1E1E1E">“We’re excited to offer these modules at no cost to Maine educators. Educators can delve into evidence-backed literacy instruction topics at their own pace and choose the professional learning modules that best fit their needs,”
said Maine Education Commissioner Pender Makin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A module to highlight is </span>
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#274F73">Module 8: Specialized Reading Knowledge Bundle -
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0">English Learners (11 Hours)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#141414;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Develop the specialized knowledge required to accelerate language and literacy proficiency for English Learners in
any program model with immediate instructional applications with AIM's newest course created in collaboration with literacy researcher Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#141414"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For more information: <i><a href="https://www.maine.gov/doe/learning/literacy/aim">AIM Steps to Literacy Learning Modules | Department of Education (maine.gov)</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Jane Armstrong (she,her,hers)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) State Specialist <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Office of Teaching and Learning<br>
Maine Department of Education <br>
23 State House Station <br>
Augusta, Maine 04333-0023 <br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:jane.armstrong@maine.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">jane.armstrong@maine.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Phone:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> 207-446-3294 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="https://calendly.com/janewarmstrong/30min"><span style="color:#0563C1">Book an Appointment</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.maine.gov/doe" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">Maine DOE</span></a> |
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<a href="https://mainedoenews.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">Maine DOE Newsroom</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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