{"id":3273,"date":"2025-02-18T18:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stand.org\/illinois\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:08:20","slug":"support-evidence-based-professional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stand.org\/illinois\/our-stories\/support-evidence-based-professional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Evidence-Based Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Illinois has made great strides toward improving our literacy rates and ensuring all students have access to evidence-based literacy instruction, but our work is not done! In order for students to receive quality instruction, their teachers must have access to quality, research-aligned professional development<\/strong>. Help us make that a reality by submitting a witness slip in favor of HB 1368 (Faver Dias\/Lightford)<\/strong><\/a>, a bill that would require any professional development related to English Language Arts to be aligned with the Comprehensive Literacy Plan for grades PreK-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fill Out a Witness SLip<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Witness slips are a great way to show support for a bill as it goes before a legislative committee, and they only take 3 \u2013 5 minutes to complete!<\/strong> Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Start here<\/a>, at the General Assembly\u2019s committee dashboard page for HB 1368.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Fill in your contact information. (Under \u201cFirm or Business,\u201d feel free to write \u201cIL Early Literacy Coalition,\u201d \u201cself,\u201d \u201cparent,\u201d  or any other affiliation you are representing.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Under \u201cRepresentation,\u201d again write something like \u201cparent\u201d or \u201cIL Early Literacy Coalition.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Check the box \u201cProponent.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Check the box \u201cRecord of Appearance Only.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Check the box to agree to terms of service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. And finally, click the box \u201cCreate (slip).\u201d (And do the CAPTCHA if they give you one.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Thank you for helping bring Illinois one step closer to having evidence-based literacy instruction in every classroom! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    About the Bill<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n