Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)
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Strategic Instruction Model
(SIM)
A presentation for the Board of
Education
May 8, 2007
Background
SIM comes from the University of
Kansas Center for Research on
Learning (CRL)
Founded in 1978, the Center’s
mission is to dramatically improve the
literacy performance of students
considered to be at-risk for school
failure through research-based
interventions
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
Leadership=school based literacy
leadership team
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
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
From Richard Elmore
“School 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 it…four
basic principles of broad-scale
reform.”
Content Literacy Continuum:
Developing 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
Strategic Instruction Model
Content Enhancement Routines
Learning Strategies
Strategic Tutoring
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
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