• Disciplinary literacy: What is it? 

Disciplinary literacy (DL) prompts teachers to see literacy as a set of tools, strategies, and practices specific to a discipline’s reading, writing, processing, comprehension, communication, and production. In this session, we examined asset-based DL in social studies, English language arts, mathematics, science, physical education, and the visual/performing arts, including examples of lessons, materials, practices, and texts.

• Disciplinary Literacy by Discipline 

Disciplinary literacy (DL) prompts teachers to see literacy as a set of tools, strategies, and practices specific to a discipline’s reading, writing, processing, comprehension, communication, and production. In this session, we examined asset-based DL in social studies, English language arts, mathematics, science, physical education, and the visual/performing arts, including examples of lessons, materials, practices, and texts.

• Supporting content area and disciplinary literacy in South Carolina middle and high schools 

In this session, attendees will become acquainted with a group of educators who have coalesced around issues of content area and disciplinary literacy in South Carolina middle and high schools.  We will begin by introducing who we are and our purpose in establishing an organization to examine disciplinary literacy practices.  Next, we will share the design, validation process, and initial results of a survey distributed to all teachers across the state to determine their knowledge and efficacy in this area.  We will finish by providing next steps in our process and discussion of possible implications for the results