Data-Driven, Personalized Acceleration & Intervention Chris Cook, Ph.D, National Curriculum/RTI Consultant

Seminar Objectives Discuss key elements for creating effective personalized learning environments Learn how the design of Core5 Supports Teacher Effectiveness Maximize the impact of Lexia’s Data System to differentiate/accelerate reading proficiency Network & share best practices

How Technology is Transforming Education Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the Worlds Learns (Christensen, Horn, Johnson; 2008) Technology will be the “disruptive force” in education by driving change in: Personalized learning Student-centered classrooms Blended learning

The Power of Embedded, Real-time Assessment “Save time and cost of repairing the mistakes.”

The “Disruptive” Effect of Real-time Assessment and Personalized Learning Traditional Assessment Time (fixed)  Results (variable/unpredictable) Embedded Assessment Time (variable)  Results (predictable success)

What is Personalized Learning?

Personalized Learning “…ensuring that a student’s path, curriculum, instruction, and schedule be personalized to meet their unique needs, inside and outside of school…through a wide range of resources and strategies appropriate for her learning style, abilities, and interests…as well as social, emotional and physical situation.” - Dr. Chris Dede, Harvard University (2014)

Blended Learning “Blended learning is not the same as technology-rich instruction. It goes beyond one-to-one computers and high-tech gadgets. Blended learning involves leveraging the Internet to afford each student a more personalized learning experience, meaning increased student control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of his or her learning.” “The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns: at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.” www.christenseninstitute.org (2014)

The Challenge We want to personalize, but in a group setting.

Literature Review: Pitfalls & Obstacles Inadequate technology Technology not adaptive (branching) Data for decision-making (time) Data for decision-making (actionable) Technology designed as a closed system Technology-delivered and teacher-delivered learning not integrated (no clear next steps for T)

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Technology (devices, infrastructure, access) Note: 1:1 ratio does not ensure personalized learning Lexia Reading Core5 provides a personalized, differentiated approach…. through a system of student-driven learning online, and targeted instruction by a teacher or paraprofessional. The key to this approach is a simple, real-time report on student performance. It serves as a data-driven action plan that tells the teacher which students need instruction, pinpoints the exact skill they need to teach, provides a lesson addressing that skill, and indicates the precise amount of time each student needs to spend on the computer. With this approach, teachers spend their time focused only where it’s needed, never where it isn’t.

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Formative / Diagnostic Assessment (vs. Summative Measures) provides more leverage for improvement richer and more accurate actionable linked to curriculum

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Formative / Diagnostic Assessment (vs. Summative Measures) provides more leverage for improvement richer and more accurate actionable linked to curriculum

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Able to happen in multiple settings classroom – whole group, small group, individual home community

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Differentiated , adaptive content through scaffolding and intelligent branching

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Strategic classroom monitoring and management

Personalized Learning: Six Attributes of Enabling Contexts Effective leadership and school climate goal clarity goal communication scheduling collaboration/collegiality

Introducing the Next Generation of Lexia…

Lexia Overview Acceleration for all ability levels Research Proven 2013 rev. to rigorous state standard 4. Adaptive (4 Levels) 5. Assessment Without Testing

Unparalleled Independent, Published Research Lexia’s scientific efficacy studies have been published in peer-reviewed reading journals: Reading Psychology (2008, 2011) Lexia Reading builds early reading skills Bilingual Research Journal (2011) Lexia Reading supports English language learners Journal of Research in Reading (2006) Lexia Reading helps students close the gap European Journal of Special Needs Education (2009) Lexia helps adolescent readers advance Perspectives on Language and Literacy (2007) Lexia’s computer assisted instructions helps enhance learning

Model of Data-driven, Personalized Learning

Lexia Reading Core5 Expanded coverage for PreK-5 students of all abilities (Tier 1,2, 3, Special Ed and ELL) Created to meet and exceed the Common Core State Standards Adaptive levels of instructional intensity Three levels of scaffolding Intensive/explicit instruction (computer and teacher-directed)

Scope & Sequence The Lexia Reading Core5 scope and sequence covers skills identified as essential for reading development across the grade range from preK to 5th grade.

Gradual Release of Responsibility model “You do” Student-driven “We do” Teacher and student Student Independence / Mastery “I do” Teacher-led Let’s take a look at the instructional model in most programs, as compared to Lexia Reading Core5. Many of you are familiar with the “gradual release of responsibility” model ( known as “I do, we do, you do”). In this commonly used approach…. the teacher begins by modeling the task or skill. This is known as the “I do” step. Next, the student performs the skill with scaffolding by the teacher. This is the “we do” step. Finally, when the student has developed mastery of the skill, he or she is ready to demonstrate the skill independently in the “You do” step.

Lexia Reading Core5 Instructional Model Standard Demonstrate mastery Independent Application Skill Builders® Paper and pencil: Develop automaticity & expressive skills Guided Practice Scaffolded support Guided Practice - Reduce choices/Remove stimuli Continue to struggle Direct Instruction Explicit teaching Lexia Lessons® Teacher-led instruction

To View A Live Demo Narrated Core5 Examples (by Reading Strand) http://www.lexialearning.com/strand-videos Self Guided Tour www.lexiacore5.com login: core5demo@lexiareading.com password: Core5

Lexia Data System for Maximizing the Impact of Lexia’s Assesment Without Testing Making data simple and actionable www.mylexia.com

Assessment Without Testing® Real-time, norm-referenced performance data Ongoing progress monitoring without a test event: Predict future performance and Prescribe Instructional Intensity Monitoring of performance toward meeting Common Core State Standards Saves teachers up to a month of instruction time across the year Assessment data is highly predictive of outcomes on commonly used assessments such as: DIBELS® – MAPS® AIMSweb® – GRADE® As students are working in the program, Lexia gathers real-time, norm-referenced and criterion-referenced performance data that informs the student-driven and teacher-led instruction in the program - and it is all done without stopping your instruction time to administer a test. This data helps you to: Predict future performance and prescribe instructional intensity Track performance on the Common Core State Standards And it saves teachers up to a month of instructional time. Lexia’s data are highly predictive of outcomes on commonly used assessments such as DIBELS, AIMSweb, MAPS and GRADE. Lexia’s data is used here because we do not yet have correlations with these assessments and Core5, but based on our correlations with Lexia Reading, we feel the data will correlate with these measures. And it is available on the ipad and iphone.

Goal of Assessment “The goal is to gain enough information about student progress to make effective decisions while minimizing the time spent administering assessments.” Torgesen, 2006 This quote by Dr. Joe Torgesen drives us to provide valuable data to planning instruction without taking your instructional time. Torgesen, J. K. (2006) A comprehensive K-3 reading assessment plan: Guidance for school leaders. Portsmouth, NH. RMC Research Corporation, Center on Instruction.

Model of Data-driven, Personalized Learning Lexia Reading Core5 provides a personalized, differentiated approach…. through a system of student-driven learning online, and targeted instruction by a teacher or paraprofessional. The key to this approach is a simple, real-time report on student performance. It serves as a data-driven action plan that tells the teacher which students need instruction, pinpoints the exact skill they need to teach, provides a lesson addressing that skill, and indicates the precise amount of time each student needs to spend on the computer. With this approach, teachers spend their time focused only where it’s needed, never where it isn’t.

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