Transcript Strategic Instruction Model (SIM)

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