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Focus on Appropriate & Evidence-based

Instruction

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Practice Guides

WWC Practice Guides

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Practice Guides

Recommendations for addressing current challenges in education

Practice Guides Include:• Concrete how-to steps• Rating of strength of evidence• Solutions for common roadblocks

What are Practice Guides?

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Practice Guides

How Practice Guides are Developed

Expert Panel-Researchers-Practitioners

Research

Recommendations

Broad Search

Assess Quality

Identify Examples

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Practice Guides

Other Studies

Consulted

Effectiveness Studies (WWC

Review)

Broad Literature Search

Screened Out

Initial Search

After Screening

Effectiveness Studies

Met Standards

RTI-Math 801 350 115 40

Data Driven Decisions

2,853 495 64 24

Out of School Time

3,972 1,170 88 29

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Practice Guides

Levels of Evidence

• Strong: High confidence (multiple rigorous studies in a variety of contexts)

• Moderate: Some evidence (may not work in all settings)

• Low: Hasn’t been proven with rigorous research (but panel still thinks it is important)

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http://whatworks.ed.gov

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Practice Guides

Existing Practice Guides• Response to Intervention (RtI) for Reading

• Response to Intervention (RtI) for Math

• Reducing Behavior Problems

• Dropout Prevention

• Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners

• Encouraging Girls in Math and Science

• Improving Adolescent Literacy

• Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning

• Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools

• Structuring Out of School Time to Improve Academic Achievement

• Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making

• Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High Schools Can Do

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Doing What Works

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Ask-A-REL REL Reference Desk

• Ask an education related research question• Get a response in 2-3 weeks• Quicker if needed• Get copies of responses to existing

questions• Share your research-based knowledge…..

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Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: a

Research SynthesisJune 2008

Laura Goe, Ph.D.

Courtney Bell, Ph.D.

Olivia Little

National Comprehensive Center on Teacher Quality

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Focus on Progress Monitoring to Inform Instruction & Provide Feedback & Guidance

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Focus on Behavior

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Focus on Strengths

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Historical Assumptions About Student Difficulties in Learning

• Students are responsible for their own learning• When students do not learn, there is something

wrong with them.• Schools must figure out what’s wrong with as

much precision as possible so that students can be directed to the track, curriculum, teachers and classrooms that match their learning ability profile. Otherwise, no learning will occur.

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Thoughts about Assessment

“There needs to be a shift in focus from diagnosing how a learner is disabled to diagnosing how a learner can be enabled.”

-- Jeff Grimes, 1997 NASP

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A way to think about teaching and learning for students with disabilities

 Less of a focus on…….

 

   More of a focus on …….

Student disability/deficit   System responsibility and responsiveness

Weaknesses   Strengths

Identifying levels of ability   Figuring out how everyone can learn

One size fits all   Individual differences, learning styles, multiple intelligences, interests

Learning a specific topic and performing on a point in time test

  Continuous and ongoing improvement and assessment

Learning what is taught   Teaching so all learn

How teachers teach   How students learn

Ability and Disability   Progress and achievement, learning by all

Student responsible for inability to learn   Teacher responsible for student learning

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Mass Insight

http://www.massinsight.org/

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The “What’s Being Taught?” schooling model:

keep up with the curricular conveyer belt

The “What’s Being Learned?” schooling model in high-performing, high-poverty schools: we commit to helping each of you succeed

ANALYSIS

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How do high-performing, high-poverty schools do it?They foster students’ readiness to learn; focus staff’s

readiness to teach; and expand their readiness to act.

ANALYSIS

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Focus on Testing Tips and Strategies

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Test Preparation

• Familiarity• Expectations and goals• Tips and hints• Item analysis and learning from

mistakes• Goal setting for next time• Student-made guide for taking tests• Others……

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8 Tips to Prepare students for high stakes

tests - Beverley H. Johns

• Provide practice tests• Emphasize not giving

up• Give timed tests• Teach students test-

taking strategies• Prepare students to

deal with test anxiety

• Make test settings as pleasant as possible

• Involve students in accommodation discussions in the IEP

• Plan a special activity after tests are over

From KY DOE Behavior Home Page

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Expand the Measures of Success

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Besides AYP, what do we know about the success of Students with Disabilities?

• Graduation Rates• Participation in extra/co-curricular activities• Grades• Achievement of IEP goals• Awards and honors• Post secondary education and employment• Community service• Others…….

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Learner Engagement

• On Schedule to Graduate with Cohort Group

• Attendance Rate

• Tardiness Rate

• Submits Homework Assignments on Time

• Community Service

• No Discipline Referrals

• Participation in Clubs/Extracurricular Activities

• Participation in Athletics

Ray McNulty, International Center for Leadership in Education, 2009

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The Learning Criteria• Foundation Learning (Achievement in the core subjects

of English language arts, math and science and others identified by the school)

• Stretch Learning (Demonstration of rigorous and relevant learning beyond the minimum requirements)

• Learner Engagement (The extent to which students are motivated and committed to learning; have a sense of belonging and accomplishment; and have relationships with adults, peers, and parents that support learning)

• Personal Skill Development (Measures of personal, social, service, and leadership skills; and demonstrations of positive behaviors and attitudes)

Ray McNulty, International Center for Leadership in Education, 2009

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International Center for Leadership in Education

http://www.leadered.com/index.html

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Focus on Effective Circles of Support

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School Mission Committees?

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Responsibility of Public Schools

To educate and prepare students to be effective, competent, caring learners and citizens.

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Student Learning

Curriculum

Standards & Assessment

ClimateInstruction

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Student Learning

Curriculum

Standards & Assessment

Instruction Climate

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Guiding Principle

What would you want to have happen if this were your child?

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