Resource Library: Adolescent Instructional Practices
Literacy
Doing What Works (Evidence-Based Practice Guides)
Center on Instruction (Literacy, Math, SpEd, ELL)
Tiered Interventions in High Schools: Using Preliminary Lessons Learned to Guide Ongoing Discussion (DOC, 2010) This document - representing the initial work of the High School Tiered Interventions Initiative (HSTII), a collaborative project of the National Center on Response to Intervention, the National High School Center and the Center on Instruction - summarizes what HSTII has learned thus far about effective RtI implementation in high schools.
Alignment of Literacy Practices that Positively Impact Student Performance - Evidence-Based High Growth Tool (DOC, March 28, 2010) This tool is one that was specially developed for the Minnesota SPDG aligned literacy project which brings together general and special educators in an LEA as they look comprehensively at their literacy curricula and determine whether they offer a complete continuum of curricula to address all of the literacy needs of all learners, including those with severe disabilities. This tool is used with a PLC of LEAs in an aligned literacy project.
Program Mapping Tool At-A-Glance (XLS) This tool is one that was specially developed for the Minnesota SPDG aligned literacy project which brings together general and special educators in an LEA as they look comprehensively at their literacy curricula and determine whether they offer a complete continuum of curricula to address all of the literacy needs of all learners, including those with severe disabilities. This tool is used with a PLC of LEAs in an aligned literacy project.
Scaling Up Evidence-Based Practices Exploration Tool: Assessing Usability of Evidence-based Programs, Practices, or Educational Frameworks Evidence-Based Practices (DOC) This tool is to assist Minnesota LEA staff in determining if practices they are considering are evidence-based. This has a much broader use & has been developed as part of a partnership with SISEP and is used for PBIS, RtI, literacy and other curricular areas.
Effective Reading Intervention Academy (ERIA) Training: Evaluation Packet ()
Fidelity of Implementation Forms ()
Families Helping Children Become Better Readers A Literacy Resource Kit for Parents (Tennessee SIG 2007)
Missouri Integrated Model (MIM)
Finding excellence, learning about effective implementation (PPT, New York S3TAIR Project)
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices (PDF, August 2008) The Institute of Education Sciences released a resource describing Evidence Based Practices that had a positive impact on student literacy.
Accelerating Instructions in Reading: Grades 9-12 (PDF) A report from the National High School Center that has good information about LEA and SEA policies.
The Content Literacy Continuum: A Tiered Framework for Secondary Schools (Session Recording, April 30, 2010, Deshler, D., Ph.D., Director, Center for Research on Learning, University of Kansas) The third in a series of webinars designed to provide an opportunity to engage with national experts in an interactive learning process centered on adolescent literacy best practices used in traditional content-area classrooms in grades 4-12. This webinar addresses the application of Response to Intervention (RtI) models in secondary school settings. Also contains a discussion of the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC), a tiered framework of academic supports designed to address the academically diverse needs of adolescent learners in subject matter classes in middle and high school settings. This session also describes the CLC framework and the accompanying support structures that should be in place in secondary schools to effectively provide differentiated instruction to all students, as well as the implications for professional development, structural change and instruction. The PowerPoint presentation, an archived WebEx file, can be accessed at the Center on Instruction website, http://centeroninstruction.org/pdevents.cfm#66
WebEx: Teaching Academic Language to English Language Learners (PPT, recording, 5/11/2010, Scarcella, R., Ph.D., Professor, School of Humanities, University of California Irvine) Fourth in a series of webinars designed to provide an opportunity to engage with national experts in an interactive learning process centers on adolescent literacy best practices used in traditional content-area classrooms in grades 4-12. Discusses the challenges that students face when they cannot understand content instruction or participate in classroom discussion because they lack academic language skills. Dr. Scarcella also provides some recommendations for addressing these challenges. The following files are also available from this event: Teaching Academic Language to ELLs (7.47 MB)
Adolescent Literacy Resource - What Social Studies Teachers Can Do to Help All Students Understand (and Like) History (Go to this link to download PPT and view recording). Second in a series of webinars designed to provide an opportunity to engage with national experts in an interactive learning process centered on adolescent literacy best practices used in traditional content-area classrooms in grades 4-12. The webinar presented what students need to know about history reading to fully engage in learning it. Cynthia Shanahan, Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses the research she and colleagues have done with expert historians regarding their reading strategies * practices, and she shares strategies that have evolved from that and other research.
A Coherent Approach to High School Improvement: A Needs Assessment Tool (National High School Center, revised 2010)
Eight Elements of High School Improvement: A Mapping Framework (July 2008)This tool is designed to help districts and schools assess current high school education policies and practices, identify areas of strengths and limitations, and implement coherent and sustainable school reform initiatives. Originally released in December 2009, this tool has recently been updated with new Characteristics of Effectiveness on which districts and schools can assess their work.
Math
Doing What Works (Evidence-Based Practice Guides)
Center on Instruction (Literacy, Math, SpEd, ELL)
High Quality Math Instruction: What Teachers Should Know (IRIS Module) On-line tool designed to assist teachers in evaluating mathematics curricula and improving their classroom practices. It focuses on aligning teaching to national and state standards and using evidence-based classroom practices. This module is the first in a series that is being developed and builds on previous modules for literacy.
Science
Formative Assessment
Center on Instruction (Literacy, Math, SpEd, ELL)
OSEP Funded Secondary School Centers ()
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