K-3 Framework: Overview for District Leaders on the 2008-2009 K-3 Outreach Sessions

Outreach Descriptions 08-09

In this one-hour web-based session, we will provide an overview of all of the Outreach sessions that will be offered throughout the 2008-2009 school year.

Module 1: K-3 Framework Introduction to RTI and the Schoolwide Reading Model

This session will focus on the essential features of a School-Wide Reading Model. It will outline a three tier instructional approach appropriate for addressing students at all instructional levels. The SWRM session will identify ways to optimize and coordinate instructional time, scheduling and grouping within and across grade levels allowing schools to maximize differentiation and make best use of resources. Included in this session will be a discussion on how this approach aligns with Response to Intervention and how the SWRM is an important first step to establishing an RTI framework.

Module 2: Assessment DIBELS Foundations

This session will focus on the foundations of Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). The DIBELS Foundations training will include an overview of the different purposes of assessment, administration and scoring directions for DIBELS, and logistics for collecting school-wide DIBELS data.

Module 3: Assessment and Instruction Systems Problem Solving and Data-based Decision Making

This session will focus on a comprehensive assessment system that addresses the multiple purposes of assessment including how to (a) use data to plan interventions by analyzing data and building instructional groups based on needs; (b) set up an efficient and effective progress monitoring system, and (c) create a communication plan for instructional decision-making. The session will include several hands-on activities and group discussion.

Module 4: Instruction Tier 1 Instruction: Using a Core Reading Program:90-Minute Reading Block

The adoption of a core program is only the beginning step to effective reading instruction. This session will guide schools on how to optimize their core program effectiveness. Participants will learn how to increase student engagement, how to use assessments to plan grouping, discuss whole group and small group instruction options, learn how to explicitly teach the critical content from the core program, and be given practical classroom enhancement strategies to use when students require more explicit teaching and/or more opportunities for practice.

Module 5: Differentiated Instruction Tier 2/3 Instruction: Part 1 - Supplemental/Intervention Programs and Part 2 - Practices Handbook

Part I: This session will focus on selecting research-based K-3 intervention programs for use in a Response to Intervention and Schoolwide Reading model. The instructional design features of the programs being used with struggling readers will be shared with emphasis placed on how to evaluate and identify effective, research-based reading programs for local use. Key suggestions and strategies for maximizing student gains within such programs will also be discussed.

Part 2: Discuss research-based instructional components beginning readers need as well as share practices schools that have made substantial progress with their students.

Module 6: Instruction Tier 1 and II-Instruction – Adding more explicit instruction to your core program

This presentation will focus on making instruction more explicit within your comprehensive core reading program to intensify instruction for Tier 2 (strategic) and low Tier 1 (benchmark) students. This class is appropriate for K-3 classroom teachers, principals, Title I teachers, and specialists who are implementing a comprehensive core reading program will benefit from attending. Participants will learn:

 the five critical components and linking them to a core program

 how to engage students in meaningful interactions with language during a lesson

 how to apply explicit instructional techniques to delivering a core program

 how to ensure students have multiple opportunities for practice

*bring 1 teacher’s edition

Module 7: Leadership

This session is for district and building leadership personnel and will focus on how to become better literacy leaders in their schools. Jo Robinson will focus on how principals and district support can be effectively involved in the entire literacy framework initiative (assessments, data-based decision making, and core, supplemental, and intervention reading program implementation). Participants will learn how to become effective data leaders and how to provide leadership support through on-going professional development and classroom walk-throughs with feedback.