Language & Literacy Advisory Team

The Language & Literacy Advisory Team (LLATé) is an ATLAS-sponsored team designed to strengthen language, reading, and writing instruction in Minnesota through relevant, meaningful, and effective professional development for practitioners.

The L&L Advisory team (LLATé) consists of the ATLAS Director, MDE PD Specialist, ATLAS Language & Literacy Coordinator, an ESL Study Circle facilitator, an MLC Volunteer Trainer, and additional practitioners from various levels of instruction (CCRS A-E). This Advisory Team will provide input, guidance, and content knowledge for the state’s PD around language, reading, and writing instruction.

The Advisory Team is responsible for visioning and implementing a long-term strategic plan for language and literacy professional development (PD) in Minnesota, as well as completing specific tasks yearly to support established PD efforts, such as the January Language & Literacy Institute.

Expectations for LLATé members:

• Commit to serve a 2-year term on the Team
• Participate in two full-day planning meetings yearly
• Participate in two ½-day meetings yearly
• Participate in up to 3 conference calls or web meetings if needed
• Respond to electronic requests for input/feedback in a timely manner (within 1-2 business days)
• Attend and assist as needed at the Language & Literacy Institute (late January)
• Bring local/regional PD needs to the committee
• Share PD information & resources with practitioners in their program/region
• Attend Language & Literacy PD as able to inform the group and provide insights toward our goals. Such events may be related to reading, writing, language acquisition, secondary credential literacy work, Career & College Readiness Standards for English Language Arts, etc.

Program representatives will receive the following through ATLAS (if eligible*):

• A stipend of $350/year in recognition of work on the committee
• Reimbursement for mileage if traveling more than 100 miles round trip to attend
• Reimbursement for lodging if needed; the cost for meals will be reimbursed at the state levels if attendance requires overnight stay
• Sub reimbursement for meeting dates, as negotiated with ATLAS (contact Patsy if you’d like to pursue)
• Lunch provided on full-day meeting days
• CEUs for meetings

* Note: As a state grant, ATLAS is not permitted to pay or reimburse any state employee, including Minnesota State System and DOC staff.

LLATé looks for new members every 2 years, once our current members’ terms have ended.

See the Applications page for additional information.

Please direct any questions to Kristine Kelly, ATLAS Language & Literacy Coordinator.