School Improvement Reading Initiative (SIRI) Grant and iZone

Summer Literacy Program Overview

Presented by:Dikettie Jordan, Dr. Lashanda Simmons

Nevels, and Tondrea McWright

Purpose of Grant $600,000 award to effect positive

change on the apparent lag in literacy.

Identify the needs in reading in the early years of entering school to aid in increasing proficiency levels as students transition to the upper grades.

Schools Involved in Grant

Lucie E. Campbell Elementary Magnolia Elementary Fairley Elementary Ford Road Elementary Douglass K-8

Justification Data from Grade 3 ELA TCAP, SAT

10, and percentages of K-5 students in Tier 2 and 3.

Feeder patterns and potential impact on iZone middle and high schools.

By increasing literacy of K-3 achievement in the selected schools, these strategies will help reduce the number of students in Tier 2 and Tier 3.

Impact At the end of three years, over one

thousand elementary school students should have received research-based Tier 1 Reading instruction from more than 50 Sopris-trained teachers. This will ensure students’ capacity to read and comprehend text; thereby, better equipping middle schools with students who enter as proficient readers.

Expectation for 3 Years 100% of iZone administrators, PLC coaches,

and RLA teachers will be committed to the increased focus on Tier 1 reading instruction in the primary grades.

iZone will continue these research-based practices beyond the time frame of the grant to increase proficiency levels of all students in K-12.

Monitoring iZone Literacy Coaches and Advisor

will monitor over the next three years.

iZone Literacy Coaches will train new teachers on the Sopris Reading courses.

iZone Literacy Coaches will analyze common assessments, interim assessments, PARCC assessments, and the pre and post test screening will provide quantitative data.

School-based data chats with K-2 teachers.

School Improvement Reading Initiative (SIRI)

iZone Summer Literacy Program Overview

The Plan Program will be June 2-27, 2014 54 teachers will receive training for one week during

the summer on the Sopris Year-Long Reading Course and other best practices in literacy from Literacy coaches. (June 2-6 from 8:00-4:00 daily)

Students in grades K-3 will participate in the summer program. (June 9-27 from 8:30-11:30 daily)

Sopris-trained teachers will teach three weeks of Tier 1 instruction & intervention to approximately 200 K-3 students. (1:10 ratio)

There will be one class per grade level (K-3) per school, for a total of 4 classes.

Teachers who have participated in the Sopris Reading Intervention classes will have the first right of refusal regarding teaching in the Summer program

Two additional K-2 literacy coaches for grades K-2 will monitor summer program sites.

Schools Douglass Elementary Fairley Elementary Ford Road Elementary Lucie E. Campbell Elementary Magnolia Elementary

Cherokee Elementary Treadwell Elementary

Teachers can participate in the Sopris Yearlong Reading Course

trainingJune 2-6

8:00-4:00

Incentives Teachers will receive a stipend for training and

participating in the summer program, and instructional materials for support.

Students will receive materials and books to develop home libraries, coupons and vouchers to local attractions.

The week of June 23-27 parents, students, teachers, and community will participate in a Literacy Fair at each iZone summer school site.

Please solicit the assistance of your school’s adopters for Literacy Fair incentive that cannot be funded from the SIRI grant (e.g., light snacks, volunteering time, etc.)

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