1. Gibraltar School District
Title I Program

2. What is Title I?
Title I is a Federal program that targets students considered to be at risk for falling below grade level in reading or math
Title I money is calculated from the amount of students who get free and reduced lunch
Districts are asked to spend the money on either staffing or materials that directly benefit Title I students

3. How does Gibraltar spend its Title I money?
Interventionists: highly qualified teachers with special training in reading and math
Title I aides
Materials and Training such as:
Fountas and Pinnell leveled reading series
Scholastic Fluency Library and Listening Center
Add+Vantage Math training
Michigan Literacy Progress Profile training

4. How do we decide who is falling below grade level?
Developmental Reading Assessment - DRA level
Star Reading
MEAP
MLPP assessments
Add+Vantage Math Screening test
Star Math

5. What interventions are done for reading?
Guided Reading
Make or Break Words
Shared Pen Writing
Leveled reading books
Fluency reading, recording and listening

6. Advantages for Students
Low student to teacher ratio
Individual needs are met
Take home books
On-going assessments
A child who is in the intervention program on average will encounter 1,000 more words per week than a child who is not in the program, or 4,000 words per month

7. In and Out
The goal is to have a week intervention, get students back to grade level and withdraw them from the program
If a student is not exited, then other options will be examined
The classroom teacher and the interventionist will decide if a student is ready to discontinue.