How do we move from instructional excess to instructional excellence?  How do we bridge the long-standing divide between content areas and utilize a system-wide approach to teaching literacy and numeracy skills? How do we contextualize learning the literacy and numeracy skills needed to process the college and career standards, inclusive of social studies, English, Math, Career & Technology Education, and Science as well as the science and engineering practices, Art, and Physical Education and Health Sciences, so that they become more than decontextualized and isolated skills, facts and figures? 

Dr. Beryl Irene Bailey offers a solution to help with these age-old issues.