1. Title I Parent Meeting Miami Elementary School 2011-12

2. What is Title I? Funding provided by the federal government for academically at-risk students. Miami is a School Wide Title I school. All students at Miami benefit from the Title I funding.

3. What is the Title I funding used for? Professional Development opportunities throughout the year for staff members. Parent Involvement activities. Additional instructional materials and classroom supplies to benefit the students at Miami. Salaries for a Title I Lead Teacher, Kindergarten PAL teacher and 10 additional highly qualified teachers (each has a college degree or has passed the Para Pro Exam) for intervention.

4. A student qualifies for Title I services by meeting one or more of the following criteria: Score at the “Well Below Level” on the DIBELS Next assessment Score at the “Below Level” level on the DIBELS assessment Score at or “Below Average” on any other nationally accredited standardized test Teacher recommendation

5. How is my child helped by Title I? Small group time daily for reading interventions. (STAR Reading-30 to 45 min. daily Grades 1-4) One on one time with a teacher to help improve their reading fluency and comprehension. (Highly qualified teachers) Programs provided for assistance outside of the school day. (Kindergarten Learning Clubs and After School Programs)

6. Who works with my child? Meet the Miami Title I Intervention Staff!!! Mrs. Anita Hoggard Title I Intervention Mrs. Carin Hollandbeck Title I Lead Teacher Mrs. Susan Durnil Title I Intervention Mrs. Connie Sandy Title I Lead Intervention Mr. Dennis Musial Title I Intervention Mr. George Doughty Title 1 Intervention Mrs. Edie Lawson Title I Intervention Ms. Kim Donoho Title I Intervention Mrs. Kim Littlefield Title 1 Intervention Mrs. Trish Garrison Title I Intervention Mrs. Annette DeLaCroix Title 1 Intervention Mrs. Joyce Walker Kindergarten PAL Teacher

7. What programs are we using? Read Naturally Read Well Reading Mastery SRA Reading Scott Foresman Reading Streets Optimize (kindergarten)

8. DIBELS Next Assessment Overview Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy – research based assessment Measures fluency in phonemic awareness & reading – predicts how well students are likely to be doing in Reading Comprehension by the end of 3 rd grade and beyond 1 minute timed measures Helps teachers identify, monitor and intervene with at- risk students

9. What does DIBELS Next Measure at each grade level? First Sound Fluency (FSF) Kindergarten Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) Kindergarten & 1 st Grade Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) Mid-K to End of 1 st Grade Nonsense Word Fluency (NSF) Mid-K thru beginning of 2 nd Grade DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (DORF) Mid 1 st Grade thru 4 th Grade Retell Fluency -- Mid 1 st Grade thru 4 th Grade DAZE - Silent reading maze comprehension --3rd and 4th grade There are “benchmark” goals for each measure that are established and tracked with an aimline throughout the year to see how students are progressing with each skill.

10. What labels are given to students by DIBELSNext results? A student who is at Benchmark is at grade level. A student who is Below Level is in need of additional strategic interventions. A student who is Well Below Level is in need of intensive interventions. ***Teachers meet in Grade Level Collaboration meetings monthly with the Principal and Title I Lead Teacher to review each student’s aimlines and their STAR group placement and programming.

11. DIBELS Next Assessment Schedules Benchmark testing of all students is done 3X a year. (Fall-Winter-Spring) Progress Monitoring  Benchmark students-monthly  Strategic & Intensive students – every two weeks.  Progress monitoring scores are placed on an aimline created between the initial fall benchmark test score and the end of the year target score. This allows teachers to see how close the student is to achieving his or her goal.

12. STAR (Student Academic Resource) 30-45 minute block for grades 1-4  Special Education to Special Education rooms  Strategic and Intensive students go to intervention teachers for small group instruction  Benchmark and Enrichment students are in a larger group with a classroom teacher

13. Kindergarten Interventions at Miami Since there is not a STAR time block for kindergarten, they receive additional support outside of the regular school day. The most in need are serviced through PAL (Primary Accelerated Learning). This class meets in the afternoon after the students have attended a regular kindergarten class in the morning. Additional kindergarten students are supported with a Learning Club that is intensive instruction 30 minutes before the regular kindergarten class.

14. Miami’s Schoolwide Reading Plan (K-4) What is it?  90 minute Reading Block Literacy Stations Small Group Instruction Large Group Instruction Home Connect Parent Reports  Sent home 3 times a year  Contain student aimlines to help parents track the progress of their students

15. Additional Assessments Indiana Acuity Math and ELA (grades 3-4) STAR reading and STAR Math monthly assessments MClass Math (K-2) Reading 3-D (TRC) Grades K-2 3-week Math ASsessments on Indiana CORE standards (Grades 3 and 4)