Strategic%20Instruction%20Model%20(SIM)

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Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)

• A presentation for the Board of Education
• May 8, 2007

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Background

• SIM comes from the University of Kansas Center
  for Research on Learning (CRL)
• Founded in 1978, the Centers mission is to
  dramatically improve the literacy performance of
  students considered to be at-risk for school
  failure through research-based interventions

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CRL believes

• Role of content teachers teach content and
  reinforce literacy
• Reading intervention reading teachers use
  research-based programs to teach
• Integration with other successful programs
• Professional development tailored to meet the
  needs of the school
• Leadershipschool based literacy leadership team

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AUSD Story

• 1989 Special education teacher receives training
  in SIM instructional methods
• 1990-1995 SIM implemented within Special
  Education and General Education individual
  teachers receiving training, but no systemic
  support in place
• 1995-2000 professional development across the
  SELPA
• 2000-2006 school wide application at Woodstock
  Elementary
• 2001 CRL-KU staff member worked with
  administrators to develop a district plan

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AUSD Story

• Encinal High School
• Content Enhancement Learning Strategies Summer
  Institute 2006
• Instructional Coaching 2006-07
• Alameda High School Island High School
• Literacy lead teacher from each school attende
  dthe Learning Strategies Summer Institute 2006
  and implemented a SIM reading class
• Chipman Middle School
• History, Science, Elective teachers learning
  Content Enhancement Routines
• Strategic ELA teachers implemented reading
  strategies
• Wood Middle School Lincoln Middle School
• Dialoguing with professional developers

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From Richard ElmoreSchool Reform for the Inside
Out Policy, Practice, and Performance

• Encouragement and support, access to special
  knowledge, time to focus on requirements of new
  tasks, and time to observe others doing itfour
  basic principles of broad-scale reform.

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Content Literacy ContinuumDeveloping Systems
Leading to Aligned Literacy Instruction in
Secondary Schools

• All students will have the skills to listen,
  speak, read, and write and strategies necessary
  to learn in each of the academic disciplines.
• Enhanced content instruction all students
• Embedded strategy instruction strategies to
  access text across content areas
• Intensive strategy instruction Fusion or Xtreme
  Reading program DISSECT, PENS
• Intensive basic skill instruction REACH
• Therapeutic Instruction Speech/Language

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Strategic Instruction Model

• Content Enhancement Routines
• Learning Strategies
• Strategic Tutoring

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District-wide Coherent Focus on Adolescent
Literacy Improvement

• All 6-12 schools
• 70 teachers to the Summer Institute
• 70 teachers for ongoing coaching support
  throughout 2007-08
• Focused efforts on building courses of study
  based on data alignment of general special
  education
• Focused efforts are built into master schedule
• Administrator training seminars during the year
• Building District infrastructure Secondary
  Literacy Leads,
• Development of AUSD SIM Professional Developer
  cadre

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Sustainable Investment for AUSD Students

• U.S. Department of Education Grant
• District-wide focus qualifies us for multiple
  grants to sustain this focused effort
• Research and Implementation grants to financially
  support Year 2 and beyond