2025

During the May Fidelity Friday we’ll be delving into curriculum fidelity with two new(ish) resources:

Join CAST’s Project COOL (COaching On Learning) team to explore a scalable coaching model designed to support the use of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), High-Leverage Practices (HLPs), and Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) in educational settings. This session will introduce the goals of Project COOL, demonstrate how instructional coaching can advance inclusive teaching practices, and highlight new tools and resources to support your work.

Oklahoma’s SPDG leads an interactive Fidelity Friday session showcasing how they embed fidelity tools and coaching supports across three levels: educators, districts, and internal project staff. This session offers real-world strategies for streamlining fidelity measurement and promoting coherence across MTSS initiatives.

Presenter: Alexa Hudak, M.Ed., Program Manager – OK SSIP/SPDG

This session focuses on an adaptive intervention coaching model, AIM Coaching. AIM Coaching was designed to provide coaches with systematic guidance on how to use teacher skill and will data to support teachers' school-wide implementation of a set of evidence-based comprehension building practices (i.e., PACT Plus) in middle schools. AIM Coaching has been implemented in two federally funded grants and has evidence of promise for improving teacher and student outcomes.

This session focused on how to craft messages that not only inform but also engage and drive action. We discussed and explored best practices for audience engagement, message clarity, and effective outreach strategies.

Key Take Aways:

During this session we discussed how typical approaches to monitoring fidelity may be incomplete when implementing intensive interventions. Dr. Zumeta Edmonds offered considerations for different stages of the intervention process, and provided information about free resources available through the National Center on Intensive Intervention.

Presenter:

Dr. Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds, NCII

This webinar, part of the SPDG Director’s Webinar series on Coaching, explores Data-Driven Instructional Coaching Model (DDICM), an evidence-based coaching framework designed to support interventionists in implementing effective early reading interventions for K-3 students with or at-risk of reading disabilities.

This session focused on recent developments in measuring two educational innovations: Integrated MTSS (I-MTSS) and systems coaching. As I-MTSS research continues to grow, schools across the country have become more aware of this evolution of MTSS. Dr. Pierce shared implementation bright spots and common challenges schools have faced in implementing I-MTSS with fidelity. She also summarized approaches to measuring systems coaching, highlighting one state’s effort to develop and use a systems coaching fidelity measure.