The Story So Far...

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Project MP³
(Monitoring Progress of Pennsylvania Pupils)
The Story So Far...
Presented at OSEP Principal Investigators
Conference, Washington, DC, August 2006
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Investigators

• Edward S. Shapiro, Lehigh University
• Naomi Zigmond, University of Pittsburgh
• Co-Investigators
• Amanda Kloo, University of Pittsburgh
• Alex Hilt-Panahon, Lehigh University
• Project Coordinators

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The Preface

• Project MP3 documents the implementation of a
  school-wide progress monitoring model in five
  elementary schools across Pennsylvania.
• The model provides general and special education
  teachers (K- 4) with the necessary support and
  expertise to use progress monitoring data to
  determine students needs for reading
  intervention and to develop a Response-to-Interve
  ntion framework for special education referral.

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The Prediction

• Project MP3 will
• Result in increased reading achievement for
  students in the participating schools
• Equip schools to prevent reading failure by
• Catching students falling behind
• Introducing intensive, differentiated,
  scientifically-based interventions that alter
  students trajectories
• Document school adoption of new practices

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The Characters

• Project MP3 involves a partnership between
• Lehigh University's Center for Research to
  Practice
• University of Pittsburgh
• Pennsylvania Training Technical Assistance
  Network (PaTTAN)
• Uniontown Area School District (UASD)
• Central Dauphin Area School District (CDASD)
• U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special
  Education Programs (Grant H326M050001)
• SRI International (Model Demonstration
  Coordinating Center)

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The Setting
Uniontown Area School District

• LAFAYETTE

BEN FRANKLIN
MENALLEN
Model Implementation School
Lag School
Control School
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Central Dauphin Area School District

• PHILLIPS

LAWNTON
RUTHERFORD
Model Implementation School
Lag School
Lag School
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The Plot
Response to Intervention Framework
Tier 3Intensive Interventions for Low Performing
Students Alter curriculum, Add time, support
resources
Continuum of Time, Intensity and Data Increases
Percentage of Students Requiring Intensive
Supports Decreases
Strategic Interventions for Students at Risk of
Academic Failure
Tier 2 Strategic and Targeted Interventions for S
tudents At Risk for Failure Strategic
Instruction, Increased Time and Opportunity to
Learn
Tier I Benchmark and School Wide
Interventions for Students on Grade-level
(benchmark) and All Students (Effective
Instructional Practices provided within the
General Education Curriculum)
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Project MP³ Model
TIER 1 All Students in Core Curriculum
Fall Benchmark
Student Benchmark Score BENCHMARK
Student Benchmark Score STRATEGIC
Student Benchmark Score INTENSIVE
TIER 2 Intervention 30 min 2x week PM every other
week
TIER 3 Intervention 30 min 4x week PM 1x week


TIER 1 All Students in Core Curriculum
Winter Benchmark
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Chapter One
LAFAYETTE (UASD)
Percent of Students Above Below Target   
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PHILLIPS (CDASD)
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To Be Continued

• Visit our website to see how the
• story unfolds
• http//www.lehigh.edu/collegeofeducation/mp3