Systems Review: Schoolwide Reading Support Cohort 5: Middle Schools Winter, 2009

Schoolwide Reading: Where have we been? Day 1: –AIMSweb administration and scoring Day 2: –AIMSweb Foundations and Report interpretation –School Wide Evaluation and Planning Tool (SWEPT) Day 3: –Essential Components of Reading Instruction –Word Attack, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Strategies

Reading systems review Components on our checklist: 1.AIMSweb data system 2.Sharing AIMSweb data with staff 3.Planning and evaluation tool (SWEPT) 4.Essential components of reading instruction

AIMSweb Data system MiBLSi assignment from Day 3: –Assess a single grade using AIMSweb measures Be ready to assess all students by Spring 2009 –Assessment team (training, integrity checks) –Logistics (schedule, materials, data entry) –Using the data

AIMSweb Data Collection Goal: To collect valid and reliable benchmark data as efficiently and economically as possible, with minimal disruption How is this working for you?

Are you efficient? Measure Approximate time Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) 3 passages 4 minutes per student MAZE procedure5 minutes per class

Are you minimally disruptive? Data collection methods –Teacher –Assessment teams Schedule posted in advance One person coordinating flow of students and managing assessment team needs

Are you collecting reliable data? Has your AIMSweb assessment team (or classroom teachers) been trained? Are you running fidelity checks as a team before you test the students?

AIMSweb Assessment Team Fidelity check AIMSweb data needs to be accurate! Check: –Standardized directions –Timing (e.g. 1 minute) –Prompting rules –Scoring rules –Correct student score entered Validate with classroom teacher

AIMSweb Fidelity Check Tool Before every benchmark assessment, run an integrity check with your staff or assessment team Briefly review scoring rules and prompts Have someone be the student and run through scripts Have blank materials available to score Discuss your scoring together Periodically, have checks on scorers

AIMSweb Data entry Who is entering AIMSweb data into website? Does someone verify the accuracy of those entries?

Review the status of your AIMSweb assessment team. 1.Are you efficient? 2.Are you minimally disruptive? 3.Are you collecting reliable data and how do you know? 4.What is the status of your building’s AIMSweb data entry (one person for data entry, one person for oversight)? Team Time Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done

Reading systems review Components on our checklist: 1.AIMSweb data system 2.Sharing AIMSweb data with staff 3.Planning and evaluation tool (SWEPT) 4.Essential components of reading instruction

AIMSweb Graphs and Data Displays

Logging Into AIMSweb

District Manager Reports

AIMSweb Histogram and Box Plot Activity Team Time

Reports for Classroom Teachers

Sharing AIMSweb data with staff Does your staff have ownership of the data? People doing the teaching need to be involved in collecting the AIMSweb measures, at some level –Part of assessment team –Collecting progress monitoring data

Sharing AIMSweb data with staff Which AIMSweb reports are given to your staff? –Building level (Histograms, Box Plots) –Grade level (Histograms, Class list reports) –Individual student (Class list report) How is your staff acting on the data?

1.What are the implications of the data that you collected? 2.What is the status of sharing your AIMSweb data with your staff? 3.Next Steps? Team Time Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done

Reading systems review Components on our checklist: 1.AIMSweb data system 2.Sharing AIMSweb data with staff 3.Planning and evaluation tool (SWEPT) 4.Essential components of reading instruction

Planning & Evaluation Tool (Simmons & Kame’enui, 2003) The School-Wide Evaluation & Planning Tool (SWEPT) for Middle School Literacy is designed to help schools “take stock” of their strengths and areas of improvement in developing a schoolwide reading plan. The items and criteria in the SWEPT represent the “ideal” conditions and total to 100 points. Score reflects how you are currently doing as a school in your instructional practices. This tool is designed to assist in your planning and implementation.

Overview of the SWEPT Evaluation Sections reflect critical components of a Schoolwide Model: I.Goals, Objectives, Priorities II.Assessment III.Instructional Program and Materials IV.Instructional Time V.Differentiated Instruction/Grouping/Scheduling VI.Administration/Organization/Communication VII.Professional Development

In Day 3, your assignment was to have the entire staff complete the portion of the SWEPT that your team identified as a priority for action. 1.Was this completed? 2.What are your next steps? Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done Team Time

Reading systems review Components on our checklist: 1.AIMSweb data system 2.Sharing AIMSweb data with staff 3.Planning and evaluation tool (SWEPT) 4.Essential components of reading instruction

Essential Components of Reading Elementary Level vs. Secondary Level ComponentElementarySecondary Phonemic Awareness  Word Study  (Advanced) Fluency  Vocabulary  Comprehension  Motivation 

Considerations for Implementation Provide professional development and support to teachers in general education classrooms to provide classwide interventions. One Strategy: REWARDS Anita Archer, Mary Gleason, Vicky Vachon

Wide Reading vs. Repeated Reading Which is More Effective? More research is needed in the area of fluency instruction for older students. Recommendation: Use a combination of repeated reading and wide reading.  Repeated reading provides opportunities for students to improve and automate their sight vocabulary.  Wide reading exposes students to new and different content, vocabulary, and text types.

Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) (Douglas and Lynn S. Fuchs) Partner Reading (Fluency and Decoding practice) Retelling (Comprehension – cognitive monitoring) Paragraph Shrinking (Comprehension – summarization) Predication Relay (Comprehension – prediction)

Good News! MiBLSi will provide to schools who are interested, a copy of PALS However, even if you don’t use the program, the strategies are general strategies that can be used across the content areas to improve fluency and comprehension in all content areas

Instructional Routine for Vocabulary 1.Introduce the word 2.Present a student-friendly explanation 3. Illustrate the word with examples 4.Check students’ understanding Anita Archer, 2006

In Day 3, we discussed strategies for making our reading instruction more explicit and systematic 1.How did you share this learning with your staff? 2.How will you support the application of these strategies with all staff members? 3.Did you request a copy of PALS? How will it be used? Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done Please take a moment to complete the appropriate section of the Follow-Up Activity Worksheet to document the work yet to be done Team Time

Reading systems review Components on our checklist: 1.AIMSweb data system 2.Sharing AIMSweb data with staff 3.Planning and evaluation tool (SWEPT) 4.Essential components of reading instruction

International Cafe Take a few minutes to review your Follow-up activity sheet from todayTake a few minutes to review your Follow-up activity sheet from today Write on a blank sheet of paper,Write on a blank sheet of paper, –Identify accomplishments that you want to celebrate with your staff –Identify two critical next steps for your school that should be your immediate priority Gallery walkGallery walk Team Time

Assignment Have AIMSweb data assessments completed and entered before your next Data Review day. Plan to bring your reports to the Data Review day. Who will be responsible for printing?? Thank you for your commitment to Adolescent Literacy and the students in your school!