Virginias State Improvement Grant and State Personnel Development Grant

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Virginias State Improvement Grant and State
Personnel Development Grant

• The Content Literacy Continuum Response to
  Intervention

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• Ive Been Thinking
• The Content Literacy Continuum is like .
• a secondary RTI model.

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NAEP Reading

• Below the proficiency level
• 68 of 8th graders
• Below the basic level
• 26 of 8th graders

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The Performance Gap
2013-2014
2Yrs
2 1/2Yrs
Skills and
Demands
1 1/2Yrs
1Yr
9 th
The Gap
5 th
Years in School
9 th
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Then ask.

• Five questions about literacy supports currently
  in place.

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5 Questions

• What happens for those students who are reading
  below the 4th grade level?
• 2. Whats in place in core classes to ensure
  that students will get the critical content in
  spite
• of their literacy skills?
• What happens for students who know how to decode
  but cant comprehend well?
• Are procedures for teaching powerful learning
  strategies embedded in courses across the
  curriculum?
• What happens for students who have language
  problems?

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Finally.

• Use a content literacy framework to determine
  an action plan

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Content Literacy
The listening, speaking, reading, writing, and
thinking skills and strategies required to learn
in each of the academic disciplines.
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Content Literacy
is the door to content acquisition higher order
thinking.
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Level 1 Enhance content instruction (mastery of
critical content for all regardless of literacy
levels) Level 2 Embedded strategy instruction
(routinely weave strategies within and across
classes using large group instructional
methods) Level 3 Intensive strategy instruction
(mastery of specific strategies using
intensive-explicit instructional sequences) Level
4 Intensive basic skill instruction (mastery of
entry level literacy skills at the 4th grade
level) Level 5 Therapeutic intervention (mastery
of language underpinnings of curriculum content
and learning strategies)
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The Virginia SIG

• Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) demonstration
  sites
• Professional developers
• Inservice preservice
• Professional developer network
• Develop and disseminate curricular support
  materials
• Policy reform

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The Virginia SPDG
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Partnerships Alignment

• Partnerships
• Shared responsibility
• Shared commitment
• Shared credit benefit
• Deep Alignment
• Instructional systems
• Instructional supports
• SPP NCLB,
• State, district and school initiatives

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The topical discussions will address

• 1) Management
• 2) Content implementation
• 3) Evaluation
• 4) Sustainability

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1) Management How to manage the initiative?

• Identify the demonstration sites
• RFP
• Informational sessions
• Selection panel
• Staffing/resource allocation
• Project Management Team
• Training/Technical Assistance Centers (T/TACs)
• Cadre
• Leadership teams
• Relationship building

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Virginia SIG CLC Communication Flowchart
VDOE - Project Management Team
T/TAC Team
VA-CLC Cadre
VDOE Evaluation Team
CLC School Leadership Team
CLC Division Leadership Team

• Ensure District Administrators understand the
  big picture active in decision-making and
  communication loop
• Ensure School Administrators Teachers are a
  vital part of the Adolescent Literacy Team are
  in the loop
• Clarifies how Evaluation connects through
  project management and VA-CLC Cadre
• Ensure all staff have current information and
  understand the big picture not just aspects
  that apply to them
• Provide an ongoing feedback loop for all involved

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2) Content implementation Scaling-up

• Pilot stage
• Leadership mechanisms
• Fidelity to the model
• Scaling-up
• Professional developers
• In-service
• Pre-service
• Implementation guide
• 8 regions, including large and urban districts
• Coaching
• Expertise
• Innovation zones
• Concentration of skilled workers advanced
  infrastructure (T/TAC, SIM Network Leaders)
• Research capacity (KUCRL WM)
• Policy alignment / waivers
• Parent involvement?

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2) Content implementation

• Role of leadership
• Distributed leadership and partnerships
• Local Team buy-in
• Time sustained commitment
• Research validated
• Fidelity
• Respect / co-construction
• Accountability
• Systematic factors influencing change
• Leadership
• Sustained focus
• Alignment

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3) Evaluation How to evaluate the impact?

• Developmental model
• Implementation
• Outcome data
• State Performance Plan
• 9th grade retention
• Teacher retention
• Cost
• Comparison
• Aligned developed in partnership

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SPDG Logic Model
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4) Sustainability How do you sustain it?

• Statewide network of professional developers
  coaches (in-service pre-service)
• Training/Technical Assistance Centers (T/TAC)
• Guides for school division level implementation
• Developing leaders, coaches other staff
• Policy development
• Establishing a coaching protocol
• Alignment
• Guide districts to plan for sustainability
• District level coaches professional developers
• Support districts to implement the initiative
• ???

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Questions?