Connecting Fidelity Observations to Secondary Reading Coaching

1. Connecting Fidelity Observations to Secondary Reading Coaching Promoting Adolescent Reading Success Model Demonstration Grant from OSEP Kim St. Martin 10/5/17 miblsi.org

2. Purpose and Intended Outcomes • Provide a brief overview of how we are collecting and using observational data to enhance coaching and feedback to middle school teachers

3. Agenda Twolayers of fidelity observations Coaching structure Data collection strategies Data use Time for questions and comments

4. Fidelity Observations Secondary Content Area Reading Strategies (ELA, math, science and social studies teachers) • Active Participation • Explicit Vocabulary • Text Summarization Reading Intervention Programs (interventionists supporting struggling readers, including students with IEPs) • Phonics for Reading • REWARDS • REWARDS Secondary • REWARDS Plus (Science and Social Studies) • Read to Achieve • Corrective Reading

5. Coaching Structure Coach A • 2 Middle Schools (6th-8th grade), different districts • 13 and 17 Content area teachers • 7 and 11 Interventionists • 31 and 44 Target students with IEPs Coach B • 1 Middle School (6th-8th grade) • 11 Content area teachers • 8 Interventionists • 47 Target students with IEPs

6. Sample Coaching Sign Up

7. Strategy Data

8. Intervention Data

9. Using Observation Data • To provide feedback to teachers • To prioritize coaching resources • To analyze alongside student outcome data

10. Prioritizing • Follow up coaching + observation needed until: • Teacher has demonstrated in at least 2 observations that they are at 80% fidelity or better • Consultation continuously available, but prioritized for: • Teachers teaching new programs and strategies • Teachers with low fidelity data • Teachers of students with IEP reading goals

11. Fidelity + Student Outcome Data

12. Questions and Comments