Reading First: A Look at the Alabama Reading First Initiative Mabrey Whetstone, Ph.D. Director of Special Education Services Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D

Reading First: A Look at the Alabama Reading First Initiative

Mabrey Whetstone, Ph.D.

Director of Special Education Services

Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D.

Director of Alabama Reading Initiative

www.alsde.edu/sig

Reading:

ALABAMA STATE IMPROVEMENT GRANT

Research Based Intervention Instruction and Prevention of Reading Failure

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In 1996, Special Education Services was looking for research based Intervention Curricula for students who were unable to learn through the use of mainstream curricula. School systems were using many products, many of which, had no scientific research basis behind them. We were looking for a research based program for our Special Ed & struggling students. One of the first and most comprehensive curricula that came to our attention was the LANGUAGE! curriculum by Dr. Jane Fell Greene from Florida, currently.

Alabama LANGUAGE! Intervention Curriculum

Alabama State Improvement Grant (SIG) Reading

Alabama State Department of Education

Special Education Services - Federal Programs/Title I

Pilot Project 96 - 99

Direct and

Support Funds

Capacity Building Funds

Year 1 Grants

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We started it as a pilot in conjunction with Federal Programs in 1996. Because of the early success of the program, Special Education Services wrote the Language! curriculum into the State Improvement Grant as a collaboration with the Alabama Reading Initiative. We would help function as a research based choice for intervention for their Reading Initiative schools. Alabama was awarded a SIG grant in the fall of 98 with the grant effective date of February 1, 1999. After the first year of the grant we added the research based Direct Instruction to our choices for research based INTERVENTION curricula.

Athens City

Baldwin Co

Bibb Co.

Birmingham City

Brewton City

Bullock Co.

Calhoun Co.

Cullman City

Decatur City

Dekalb Co.

Dothan City

Elmore Co.

Eufaula City

Hoover City

Huntsville City

Jackson Co.

Jacksonville City

Lawrence Co.

Madison City

Marshall Co.

Phenix City

Piedmont City

Ozark City

Scottsboro City

Selma City

Sylacauga City

Talladega County

Tallassee City

Tarrant City

Tuscaloosa City

Vestavia Hills City

Washington Co.

Wilcox County

Grant Sites

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The first two years of the LANGUAGE ! Grants 37 grants were awarded. In year three a few more grants sites were added but in year four we did not add any but maintained the sites in order to try and support those who already had grants. In addition to the school systems with grants, many other schools systems sent teachers to the L! trainings as part of their ARI or their plan for teaching struggling readers including students with disabilites. At one count there were 80 out of 128 systems using L! for either struggling readers, ELL students, or students with disabilities.

LANGUAGE! Is:
Explicit, and cumulativeMastery-level based curriculum rather than grade-levelDesigned for students with chronic delays who have not been successful in past instruction
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L! meets the reading, writing, and language arts needs of students w/ literacy delays. It is appropriate for grades 2-12 and can be used by skillful teachers for some first graders.

It can be taught in:

General Education

Special Education

ELL Program

Collaborative Classes

Inclusion Programs

Special Tutoring Programs

Pullout Programs

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This list shows the versatility of the L! curriculum.

LANGUAGE! can be taught in many different settings.

General Education Teachers

( 60% of each training)

Special Education Teachers

Title I Teachers

Speech-Language Pathologists

Administrators

LANGUAGE! Training includes:

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The L! curriculum training is appropriate for several groups. 60% of the persons trained have been General Ed. Teachers. Many of the students in the L! curriculum are those older, struggling readers who are behind and getting farther behind.

Alabama Reading Initiative and SIG Reading Initiatives Collaboration
LANGUAGE! was written into the SIG grant as collaborating with the Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) as an intervention piece.Meetings were held with school representatives from ARI schools and information was disseminated about LANGUAGE! and Direct Instruction for Intervention as Research Based instructed.LANGUAGE! and Direct Instruction pilots were carried out in ARI schools and non ARI schools.
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When the SIG was written, L! was written into the grant as the intervention piece working cooperatively with the ARI. The SIG distributed flyers, made training seats available, and gave preference to schools who were part of the ARI as part of the grant application process and when assigning seats at L! trainings. ARI employees were invited to L! trainings and informed of all the changes and any opportunities for training in L!. After the DI pilots were started, SIG staff attended ARI representatives meetings to make them aware of the opportunities they had for no cost training for their schools in 2 research based curriculums intervention curriculum for their schools.

Direct Instruction
Explicit, scientifically based reading instructionThree pilot system pilot school system sites in AlabamaSupport of school systems using Direct Instruction through training during Summer AcademyTechnical assistance through the SIG
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The SIG sponsored two large SRA Direct Instruction pilots. Summer training was also offered at the Summer Academy, a yearly large teacher/administrator professional development week, in Reading Mastery and Direct Instruction. Other than the conference registration fee which is very modest, there is no charge to the teachers for this SBRR training.

An additional pilot system, Montgomery was added in 2001. These schools received training, materials, and technical support from SRA through the SIG.

Alabama

READING FIRST

Initiative

LANGUAGE! Collaborates with other State Department sections/program

Compensatory

Education Settlement for Incarcerated Youth and Adults

Alabama

Reading

Initiative

Federal Programs/

Title I

Lee v. Macon

Consent Decree

Beginning

Reading Model

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The SIG collaborates with other programs & Departments at the Alabama Department of Ed. in order to provide research based intervention literacy curriculum for struggling readers.

1999-2000 Year One LANGUAGE! Grants

17 Grant Sites

LANGUAGE! Coaches Trained

2000-2001 Year Two LANGUAGE! Grants

16 Grant Sites

LANGUAGE! Coaches Trained

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The L! grant awarded 17 grants the 1st year of the State Improvement grant and 16 grants the second year.

Grant sites were asked to select skilled L! teachers to be trained as L! coaches to assist teachers in their district to implement the L! curriculum. We found that school districts that had trained L! coaches and utilized these coaches were more successful with the L! curriculum, their students progressed more rapidly through the units, and there was more fidelity to the curriculum than schools who did not have coaches or did not use the coaches that they had.

Sites were asked to train a minimum of a 2 coaches per district. We continued to add a few sites in the third year but maintained the number at the third year level so that the state could build capacity through years 4 and 5 of the grant and see how this would be affected by the NCLB and ways we could support intervention for struggling readers.

Lead Trainer

Montgomery Co.

Trainers

Baldwin Co. (2)

Eufaula City

Huntsville City

Marshall Co.

Trainees

Birmingham City

Calhoun Co.

Eufaula City

Huntsville City

Marshall Co.

Selma City

Tallassee City

Language! Trainers

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Initially the SIG paid an outside presenter to do our L! trainings. This was very costly to us and limited our trainings to only 3 a year. The SIG applied to Sopris West, the publisher of L! to allow our Reading Specialist in the SIG grant to train as a L! trainer as well as a few others in the state. Our Reading Specialist became the lead trainer with assistance from the others in the state. The next year we were able to send 8 L! teachers to be trained as L! trainers. These L! trainers were geographically spread out across the state so teachers would not have to travel great distances to attend a L! training. The SIG succeeded in building capacity to sustain its own trainings without outside assistance. These trainers are required to attend a yearly national meeting to retain their trainer status.

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This slide represents the initial first year standard score progress of students in the L! curriculum. Standard scores are hard to move and the first year this shows good progress for the students.
Chart11998-991999-00Group Score (N=110)Years of Language! TrainingAverage Standard ScoreAverage TORC III Standard Score for Eufaula City Schools Students 4 through 11 Grades23.827.3Sheet1SchoolLast NameFirst NameGradeTORC DateTORC General Vocabulary SSTORC Syntactic Similarities SSTORC Paragraph Reading SSTORC Sentence Sequencing SSTORC Total Standard ScoreTORC Reading Comprehension QuotientTORC Reading Directions SSAdmiral MoorerAdamsLovann611/5/99134715581515Eufaula HighAdamsKimberly1011/16/9962351660Admiral Moorer Middle SchoolAdamsLovann710/18/0041551558Sanford AveAdkisonNoel410/9/0026451762Admiral Moorer Middle SchoolAdkisonLaura610/17/0034882372Eufaula HighAllenThodeus1110/19/0066982982Western HeightsAllenShanae410/18/00885113287Eufaula HighAllenThadeus1011/16/99745218631829EufaulaAndersonRufus1011/16/9959712270Eufaula HighAndersonAdam911/16/99575623722320Eufaula HighAndersonRufus1110/23/0011111313481132248Eufaula HighAndersonAdam1010/20/0055552067Western HeightsAndersonEgypt510/17/0098462778Western 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This school reported that many of their discipline referrals were also students who had difficulty learning to read. After participating in L! the first year, office referrals for discipline dropped dramatically. The school credits L! with the change in the students behavior.

Beginning Reading Model

Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement

Drs. Edward Kameenui and Deborah Simmons

Summer Reading Institute

July 10-14, 2000

Southeast Regional Resource Center

Alabama State Improvement Grant -

Nine Pilot

School Sites

2000-2001

Summer Reading Institute

June 12 -15, 2001

16 New Pilot Schools

Summer Update

2001 Continue

As Pilot Sites

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After working with the intervention programs of LANGUAGE! and Direct Instruction, which are designed the intervene intensively for those students who are behind one or more grades, SIG Staff decided that based on the convergence of the science on reading and the number of students who required intensive intervention services to pursue bringing Drs. Kame enui and Simmons Beginning Reading Model to AL to prevent reading failure and thereby prevent the over identification of children as students with disabilities.

Initially 9 schools were trained through the Summer Reading Institute followed by 16 schools in year 2, and 24 schools in year 3.

LANGUAGE! and Direct Instruction were making progress with out students who had fallen behind in reading but too many of Alabamas students were not being successful in learning to read.

Intensive 44%

Strategic 32%

Benchmark 24%

1999 by Edward J. Kameenui and Deborah C. Simmons

This slide represents the magnitude of need at the time the STATE Improvement Grant was written. These are the AL scores for the 4th grade NAEP done just prior to the SIG application in 99.

Intensive


Strategic

Benchmark

A healthy school that is teaching students to read should look like these circles. The core reading curriculum should meet 85% of the student's needs with 10-12% strategic or emerging readers and only 3-5% of the students needing intensive support in reading. This intensive support could include a specially designed curriculum such as L! or DI.

Preventing Reading Failure:

Beginning Reading Model

Intensive Intervention:

LANGUAGE!

SRA Direct Instruction

3-12

K-3

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The SIG Beginning Reading Model is designed to prevent reading failure and prevent the over identification of students for special education. We provide intervention for those students who have failed to meet the benchmark goal for the Nations and Alabama; All children will read at or above grade level by the end of Grade 3.

To paraphrase the Ford Motor Company,

Reading is Job One!


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Reading should be our focus. Without reading students do not choose in life. Someone else chooses for them.

Seven Components of an Effective School-Wide Beginning Reading Model

1. A vivid vision

2. A set of strategic goals

3. A relentless commitment to a clear goal

4. Courageous and knowledgeable leaders

5. A valid and reliable performance dip stick

6. An effective core curriculum

7. A 180-day investment portfolio

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These Seven components are all necessary for an effective school-wide reading model. A vivid vision is important if your goal is for all children to be readers at the end of 3rd Grade. If you don't know where you are going, you will be asking yourself someday, how did we get here? It takes all seven of these components carried out for 180 days, not 4 days a week with one day off for good behavior for students to be readers.

5 Big Ideas in Beginning Reading

1. Phonemic awareness

2. Alphabetic principle

3. Automaticity with the code

4.Vocabulary development

5. Comprehension

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Reading First and NCLB are based on these 5 Big Ideas. Convergence of science tells us these are the components that must be taught explicitly if children are to be successful readers.

Big Ideas Drive the Train

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Outcome Measure

Big Idea of Literacy
Initial Sounds Fluency Phoneme Segmentation Fluency Phonological awareness Nonsense word Fluency Alphabetic principle Oral Reading FluencyAccuracy and fluency with connected text Letter Naming FluencyRisk indicator that acquisition of crucial skills may be difficult
Big ideas drive the curriculum, instruction, and resources we use.

Teachers dont have time to teach everything they might like to teach, so they must teach those Big Ideas that have been proved to be the critical skills necessary to learn to read. For each Big Idea as assessments in place to determine students are meeting benchmark and what types of instruction each student needs.

The DIBELS assessments allow the teacher to assess a students progress in the Big Ideas of Reading. The results are reviewed immediately so instruction can be modified to meet a students instructional needs.

A Major Component to Any Reform is Assessment of Progress & Helps Us Answer These Questions:
So, how are we doing?How do we maximize our instructional resources?How well is intervention/instruction working?
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It is important that the plan for changing reading is purposeful. If students are to meet the goal of being readers by the end of 3rd Grade schools must ask questions about how they are doing this year compared to last year, using our instructional resources, and how well are we intervening with our at risk students. One major way we do this is the DIBELS.

Assessing the Essential Components of Early Literacy: DIBELS

Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy Skills
Standardized, individually administered measuresShort duration, fluency measures Repeatable forms to allow for frequent student performance monitoring Have demonstrated reliability and validityMeasures assess essential early literacy skills that are predictive of later reading achievementPhonological AwarenessAlphabetic Understanding/PrincipleAutomaticity with the Code
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The DIBELS or Dynamic Assessment of Early Literacy Skills assess the essential early literacy skills that are predictive of later reading achievement.

These short, one minute assessments allow for frequent monitoring of student progress and immediate adjustment of instruction to meet the students needs.

Academic Systems

Reading Systems for Student Success

Universal Interventions

All students

60-85%

Targeted Group Interventions

Targeted students

5-30%

1-5%


Targeted students

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This triangle represents the types of reading instruction that should be expected for most classes. The core curriculum should be chosen so that it reaches 60-85% of the students.

About 15% of the students will need materials supplementary to the core curriculum.

And 1-5% of the students will need very explicit, intensive intervention curriculum.

Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success

1-5%

1-5%

5-10%

5-10%

80-90%

80-90%

Academic Systems

Behavioral Systems

Intensive, Individual Interventions
Individual StudentsAssessment-basedHigh Intensity
Intensive, Individual Interventions
Individual StudentsAssessment-basedIntense, durable procedures
Some students (at-risk)High efficiencyRapid response
Some students (at-risk)High efficiencyRapid response
All studentsPreventive, proactive
All settings, all studentsPreventive, proactive1.unknown2.unknown

Alabama Positive Behavior Supports

YEAR ONE

2000-2001
20 Random Schools10 Coaches
YEAR TWO

2001-2002
28 Schools AddedExtended Coach Training
Applications were taken and 20 schools were chosen to implement PBS.

For year two 28 more teams were added with the added component of on-site technical assistance.

YEAR THREE
2002-2003
70 Schools Added4 Full District PBS Implementation2 Gradual District PBS ImplementationALL Training On-Site Within the SystemMore Technical SupportCoach Role More Clearly Defined
Our state level PBS Leadership Team had to re-group and re-think how to more effectively use the monies that were available.

The research showed us that Professional Development is more likely to be used if training was received on-site. Applications were taken and 6 school districts were chosen to implement PBS in every school within their district. ALL training and technical support is now conducted inside the school district.

Coach/District PBS Leader serve only in their district.

PBS training being held within the district allowed us to save over $120,000 in one year. Money that we are now able to use to train a greater number of teams.

Year One Data

Lessons learned during year one is that schools have to be sure that PBS is one of their top three goals or priorities. We lost almost half of our original PBS schools, but through our lessons learned, ALL of the teams trained during last school year and this school year are still implementing and ARE implementing above the 85% level of PBS criteria.

We are just now beginning to compile data with PBS and reading scores. The preliminary data show us that schools implementing PBS have getting better test scores and in schools implementing just reading are receiving less discipline referrals to the office.

We do have a pilot site that implemented reading initiative one year and the next year implemented Positive Behavior Supports. The result .. 98 % of their students leaving 3rd grade read on grade level and office discipline referrals have been reduced by 95 %.

Less Discipline Means More Time
Estimated time regained for administrators for year one teams is
43,320 minutes.
Estimated instructional time regained for teachers and students is
25,660 minutes.

The average discipline referral takes an administrator about 20 minutes to complete and on average it takes about 10 minutes away from instructional time to process.

Clearly, here we can see why scores go up and inappropriate behavior decreases because teachers re-gain valuable teaching time and administrators now have time to be visible around the school campus.

So How Are We Doing in Year 2? First, Look at Last Year

57% Established Skills

34% Emerging

9% Deficit

Fall of 1st Grade on PSF in 00-01

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We need to look at data from year to year to see how we are making progress. These are the scores of Cohort 1 in the first year of BRM. Let see what happens after the 1st Graders have had one year of BRM as Kindergarten students.

Now Lets Look at This Years First Graders

85% Established Skills

10% Emerging

5% Deficit

Fall of 1st Grade on PSF in 01-02

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You can see that 85% of all the 1st Graders in the Fall had their Phonemic Segmentation Fluency in the range of established skills. The year before 57% were established. We would like all students established by fall of 1st Grade but this is textbook model. It shows us which student needs intensive intervention so that they do not fall behind.

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After 2 years of participation in the BRM, 3rd Grade students scored 10 percentile points better than the National norm and 12 percentile points better than our State. Our BRM students, on Total Language, out scored the Nations 3rd Grade average by 15 percentile points. The States average by 11 percentile points.
Chart1Total ReadingTotal ReadingTotal ReadingTotal LanguageTotal LanguageTotal LanguageBRM StudentsNon-BRM Alabama StudentsNational NormAverage PercentileAverage Reading and Language SAT9 3rd Grade Scores for BRM, Non-BRM, and National Norm604850655450VariablesOUTCOME VARIABLESYearsFully Certified TeachersNot Fully CerttifiedTotal TeachersOut of Sp EdReg DiplomaCertificateMaxed out-AgeDropped-out Sp EdDropout Gen EdSuspension & Expulsion Sp EdSuspension & Expulsion Gen EdTotal School EnrollmentTotal Speical Ed EnrollmentSpecial Ed Enrollment of 14 and olderSpecial Ed Enrollment of 18 and older95/965844.50292.306136.80716120522536218921066173591298266540596/975933.60216.706150.306391325213136199396847377119770336675524397/986308.08220.186528.26779142322864918257393219922036902556798/996308.79175.956484.74468151321548619104117320429837637522579299/006700.84237.236938.07607125220772162086557119637617545400/015862.72171.486034.208481260209768197737220530401/026423.08173.106596.1872811102243561512YearDropoutsSE enrollmentRate95/9618923678851.496/9719933667554.397/9818253690249.598/9919103752250.999/0020863761755.500/0119773722053.100/021512* Enrollment for 99/00 estimated from previous two yearsYearReg DiplomaCertificateTotal Graduating95/9612052253345896/9713252131345697/9814232286370998/9915132154366799/0012522077332900/01126020973357YearTotal Graduating95/96345896/97345697/98370998/99366799/00332900/01335701/023353YearsFully Certified TeachersNot Fully CerttifiedTotal TeachersPercent not fully certified95/965844.50292.306136.804.8%96/975933.60216.706150.303.5%97/986308.08220.186528.263.4%98/996308.79175.956484.742.7%99/006700.84237.236938.073.4%00/015862.72171.486034.202.8%01/026423.08173.106596.182.6%YearReg DiplomaCertificateTotal Graduating18 years and olderPercent Graduating95/96120522533458540564.0%96/97132521313456524365.9%97/98142322863709556766.6%98/99151321543667579263.3%99/00125220773329545461.0%00/01126020973357531363.2%01/02111022433353545161.5%SKILLSNON-LANGUAGE! PROGRAM GAINSNUMBER OF NON-LANGUAGE! STUDENTSLANGUAGE! PROGRAM GAINSNUMBER OF LANGUAGE! STUDENTSVocabulary0.3212,8492.9885Reading Comprehension-0.0614,3863.00115Third Grade Kids with and without BRM average scores on SAT9ProgramTotal ReadingTotal LanguageBRM6065Non-BRM4854National Average5050Variables0000000YearsNumber graduatingChart 3. Number of special education students graduating with a diploma or occupational certificate during the last 7 yearsExpulsion-Suspension000000YearsDropout rate per 1000 Sp Ed StudentsChart 1. Rate of Dropouts per 1000 Special Education Students 14 years and older over the last six yearsSheet30000000YearNumber of sp ed studentsChart 4. Number of special education students returning to regular education0000000YearsPercent not fully certifiedChart 6. Percent of Teachers who were not fully certified over last 7 years0000000YearsNumber of special education students graduatingChart 2. Percent of special education students graduating. (Percent calculated by dividing number graduating by students 18 years and older).000000BRM StudentsNon-BRM Alabama StudentsNational NormAverage PercentileAverage Reading and Language SAT9 3rd Grade Scores for BRM, Non-BRM, and National NormDiscipline Expulsion/Suspension Sp EdSystemUnilateral RemovalLong Term>10daysMultiple Short Term>10 days13012303419323104841455016000730685049302100011151121200013106140001510016200173031820519032201100210012221023210240092520026301277022812102920030000310103230033000340303500036000371821238200390004030241717423104310444311245604460004750148011496140120500005128358528555301054000551325630157511858500591614601036130562400639131641136510066000671021010001023231040001051131061001070001093001101011134251146904111600012500012600012700012800013050113100013230113301013714514100214300014430414600015400015540215600215710015811015920016220016340016500116800016960017155817500017601017801017900118000018111018250518301018400118550218810018900019000019131141920001931001942071956001971011980001990102008019201000202100203100204000205466136523200/20012065572065111999-20002074111543581998-992082092102001/20022114661365232000/20012125572065111999-20002134111543581998-99214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243244245246247248249250251252253254255256257258259260261262263264265266267268269270271272273274275276277278279280281282283

Sample of Grade Level Instructional Priorities - K

September

Passage understanding
1) Identifying information from stories: answers italics - who and what questions after listening to a sentence or short paragraph.

2)Identifying information from stories: responds to stories by answering questions, discussing ideas, and relating events to personal experiences

3) Making Connections: Connects events, characters, and actions in the story to specific life experiences

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Grade Level Priorities developed by Dr. Simmons under Secretary Riley of Dept of Ed give scientific reading guidance to teachers so that the instructional priorities are taught month by month and no important skills are skipped.

Cohort 1: 2000-2001 9 Schools



Total: 48 Schools

The BRM started small with 9 schools.

The second year the original 9 sites were invited to add additional schools plus additional schools were invited to participate.

Cohort 3 included 24 schools - many of them from previous systems that had schools in the BRM and others were completely new sites.

We were trying to build pockets of excellence and support for each other.

Beginning Reading Model Sites

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Institute on Beginning Reading

July 2000 School Teams 6 people

DIBELS Workshop

September 2000 Test Coordinators

Fall Follow-up

October (1 day) Kameenui & Simmons Curriculum Maps & Testing Instruction

Overview for invited schools April 2000

Year I Cohort 1

9 schools decided to participate

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This slide and the next one shows how the BRM was put into place. Notice that after the Summer Institute the schools are still supported with additional training.

Summer Institute on Reading

1-day Cohort 1 4-day Cohort 2 6-person teams

DIBELS Workshop

Cohorts 1 & 2 Test Coordinators + 1

Fall Follow-up

September Kameenui & Simmons Curriculum Maps & Testing Instruction


Year II

16 teams added

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As part of the support for the BRM cohorts. SIG staff provide in field and email technical assistance to the schools.

Collaboration With
the Alabama Reading Initiative
SIG representative participated in the U.S. Department of Education, Secretaries Academy on ReadingSIG provided data and wrote requested pieces for the READING FIRST GRANT SIG participated in on-going departmental meetings preparing for submission of the Alabama Reading First Grant
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As part of on-going efforts towards Departmental Reading Collaboration. SES SIG staff participated to help as required by Reading First to collaborate on the planning and writing of the BRM and special education portion of the grant.

Year III Cohort III

Summer Institute

Fall DIBELS Workshop

Spring

Fall Curriculum


25 new teams

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As the Reading First grant was being completed, Cohort III of the BRM was being planned and the Summer Institute executed. Personnel from the ARI and assessment attended the Summer Institute as part of sharing information and collaboration.

Collaboration with ARI & ARFI For DIBELS Training and Mid Year Follow-up
Funding for training DIBELS trainers from SIG funds by bringing in Dr. Roland Goode, one of the authors of the DIBELSJoint planning between ARI personnel and SIG personnel for DIBELS training 12,000 + teachers in teams of 6Funding for trainees for DIBELS from ARI/ARFIFunding for the trainers while DIBELS training from ARI/ARFIMidyear follow-up on using DIBELS assessment to inform instruction SIG/ARFI collaboration
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The SIG has collaborate starting w/ the Secretarys academy in FEB 2002 to leverage each others strengths, knowledge, and skills to improve reading instruction for the children of Alabama.

Beginning Reading Model Liaisons
Experienced BRM TeachersTrained fall 2002 by Drs. Kameenui and SimmonsParticipated in mid-year BRM follow-up in conjunction with ARFI follow-upProviding technical assistance to BRM schoolsWill conduct future follow-ups for all BRM Cohorts Will collaborate with ARFI staff for trainings as needed
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The SIG became aware that some of the BRM schools needed more technical assistance than just the 3 X a year group meeting. The SIG staff could not accommodate all these schools alone. The talent and knowledge from trained schools was a natural area from which to draw.

State Capacity Building for Beginning Reading Model
SES will send a team of SIG employees and liaisons to Oregon to be trained as BRM trainersDrs. Simmons & Kame enui will hold a training for BRM trainersState Dept Employees from SIG, ARFI, Instruction, Federal Programs, and Assessment will attend the Oregon trainingSIG & Liaisons will conduct Cohort 4 this summerLiaisons will provide all updates trainings.
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Through an OSEP funded initiative, Drs. Simmons and Kameenui were asked to replicate to AL BR Model for other states. Their response was to create the Trainers Model which will give each State the capability to train and support their own state. By staff from AFI/ARFI, assessment, and other possible Dept of Ed sections attending, it will facilitate more collaboration and support for ARFI schools and follow-up training's.

Alabama Statewide Implementation
State Improvement Grant (SIG)System Change and Capacity BuildingCollaboration with Alabama Reading InitiativeCollaboration with Alabama Reading FirstParticipation in Statewide DIBELS TrainingLocal SustainabilityCollaboration between StatesTraining by National Leading ExpertsTechnical Assistance Provided by SERRC
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In summary, Sp. Ed Services through the SIG grant has promoted only scientifically based reading since 1999. We have been proactive in preventing reading failure before Reading First and brought the DIBELS assessment as part of that model to Alabama. The SIG collaborated and will continue to be a collaborative partner to further scientifically based Reading Research instruction for students in Alabama.

BEGINNING READING MODEL

Dr. Edward Kameenui, Dr. Deborah Simmons, and Dr. Roland Good III

University of Oregon, College of Education

Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement (IDEA)

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LANGUAGE!

Dr. Jane Fell Greene

Sopris West

Toll Free: 1-800-547-6747

Web Site: www.sopriswest.com

SRA Direct Instruction

http://www.sra4kids.com

1-888-772-4543

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ALABAMAS
SIG
INITIATIVES VISIT
WWW.ALSDE.EDU/SIG

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ALABAMA STATE IMPROVEMENT GRANT

Initiative information contacts -- (334) 242-8114

State Improvement Grant Director

Dr. Julia Causey, [email protected],

Reading: Gibbs Davis, [email protected],

Zoee' Saltzman [email protected],

Positive Behavior Supports: Donna Kirkendoll, [email protected]

Paraeducator: Donna Kirkendoll, [email protected]

Instructional Strategies: Theresa Farmer, [email protected],

Mentoring Programs: Benita Cahalane, [email protected],

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Documents

Reading First: A Look at the Alabama Reading First Initiative Mabrey Whetstone, Ph.D. Director of Special Education Services Katherine Mitchell, Ph.D