"Practice! Are We Talking about Practice?”Building the Tapestry for At Promise Youth

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Johnna Early, MAEdNational Education Advisor

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Objectives

• Explore practice and assessment protocols in a RTI framework to increase achievement levels in students 

• Share one school’s story of success

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Practice

Gladwell (2008)“The 10,000-Hour Rule”

“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert – in anything.”

- Daniel Levitin

Neurologist

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Lemov (2012)

• “Generally seen as mundane and humdrum, poorly used and much maligned, or too familiar to be interesting, practice is often considered unworthy of deep, sustained reflection and precise engineering.”

Myelin: “A Vivid New Model for Understanding Skill”

• “Myelin’s vital role is to wrap those nerve fibers the same way that rubber insulation wraps a copper wire, making the signal stronger and faster” (Coyle, 2009)

• “When we fire our circuits...our myelin responds by wrapping layers of insulation around that circuit, each new layer adding a bit more skill and speed” (Coyle, 2009)

• “. . . running an effective practice requires systematic attentiveness to participants’ rate of success.”

• “lack of understanding builds on itself and gets harder to fix the longer you wait”

• “requires responding to failure to remediate it as quickly and as positively as you can”

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Focused Groups for Purposeful Practice

• Encode Success– Practice getting it right

• Practice the 20– Spend 80 % of your

time working on the 20 most important skills

• Correct Instead of Critique– Positive and

Corrective

• Replace your Purpose with an Objective– Measureable– Manageable– Mastery guidance– Find the best route to

accomplish the objective

• Unlock Creativity… with repetition

Lemov (2012)

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What do you do to Support Purposeful Practice?

• Encode Success

• Practice the 20

• Correct Instead of Critique

• Replace your Purpose with an Objective

• Unlock Creativity… with repetition

A Story of One School’s Success Building a RTI Framework that

Works

The first step in making room for productive practice.

Geri CoatsCat Petty

RTI FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH

SCHOOL STUDENTS

Reach for the Stars!

HISTORY● Program Improvement

● Intervention Team● Purpose – Meet Students’ Needs● Structure- Establish roles, responsibilites and

procedures● Capacity- Teach and re-teach to build knowledge

and comfort levels

Dylan Wiliam

• Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London

• author of over 150 articles, books, and papers including– Black, Paul & Wiliam, Dylan (1998).

Inside the Black Box, Phi Delta Kappan. October, PP 139-144.

Our Research for Purpose

Black and Wiliam (1998)• “students taught by teachers who integrated

assessment with instruction could achieve in six or seven months what would otherwise take a year

• . . . more importantly, these improvements appears to be consistent across countries. . ., across ages and across subjects.”

The Righetti Framework

• Placement• Progress Monitoring• Prep for High Stakes Exams• Support Students and

TEACHERS• Instruct• Practice

Previous Placement Procedure

● 8th grade teacher recommendations

+● Reading level test from textbook

+● 3rd Party Test-Grade Level

=GUESSWORK

Current Placement Procedure

They use data-

Computern Adaptive Placement Test and Course offerings to match

Who did they place?

9th grade classand newly enrolling students

Standards and Skills

GRADE 8

GRADE 9

1400Mastery of Complex Skills

Naive understanding of Skills

What makes computer adaptive testing different?

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Core Progress Skill Difficulty

y = 253.5Ln(x) + 324.85

R2 = 0.8207

y = 251.45Ln(x) + 333.35

R2 = 0.8912

y = 271.68Ln(x) + 313.65

R2 = 0.8289

y = 240.13Ln(x) + 334.27

R2 = 0.8072

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Numbers and Operations

Algebra

Geometry and Measurement

Data Analysis, Statistics, andProbability

Every component of STAR is connected to our empirically validated learning progression

These skills reflect the grade level and scaled score where students gained mastery at 70%.

Easy

Difficult

Time Information

The Science of STARHighly Efficient Test Items

Item Development Process

1. Analyze Standards2. Item Specifications3. Development Guidelines4. Item Development5. Quality Assurance6. Item Calibration7. Psychometric Item Analysis8. Final Q/A, add to Item Bank

View Item Samples

ELA screener

Every student fits in there somewhere

Course Offerings In ELA● Three levels

● Core: STAR level “On Watch” & “At/Above Benchmark”● CLASSES: College prep with no support

● Strategic: STAR level ● CLASSES: College prep with support—Reading

Improvement, English Skills, CAHSEE, Writing Intervention

● Intensive: STAR level “Urgent Intervention”● CLASSES: Linguistics—Language! (ELD 1,2,3 &

Books A/B; C/D)

“Intervention”

MatH Screener

Every student has a place here

PROGRESS MONITORING● How often?

● Timeline for students in RTI● Intensive: every two weeks● Strategic: every three weeks● On Watch: every four weeks● Everyone: 3 times per year

● Which students?● 10th graders (selected from last year's grades)● 9th graders (selected from STAR Enterprise

Screening Report — On Watch and students not placed according to skill level recommendations)

STUDENT SUCCESS

CURRENT SUCCESS

● Full Placement and Screening of students at start of school year

● Full Placement Process 2011-2012

● Progress Monitoring● Class of 2015, 2016● Benchmark

CHALLENGES/HICCUPS● Entrance testing prior to school start

● Difficulty of testing 8th graders at our school site● Communication/support-- feeder schools

● Enrollment Testing Admin Support● Benchmark testing all 9th graders in 1-2 days● Progress Monitoring “On Watch” cohorts—

● Parent concerns regarding student placement in cohort

● Student buy in● Disruption to student class time

● Technology issues/Lab access● Team Member Consistency/turn-over

CURRENT AREAS OF FOCUS● Fine Tuning● District-wide STAR Enterprise

implementation● Maintaining our placement program● Efficacy with administrative support● Integration of STAR Enterprise with

behavior pyramid of intervention

CONTACT INFORMATION

Geri Coats

@gericoats

Placement Documents

ELA with course offerings

Cat Petty @ccate2012

#RHSrti if you have questions

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What does your assessment framework look like?

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The Connection is Powerful Assessment>Instruction>Practice