Transcript Learning Support Services - Sequim School District Supt

Learning Support Services
Preschool – Grade 12
A snapshot of ELA services funded by
Special Education, Title 1,
STBIP (ELL) and LAP
Love Your People
• First, I’d like to introduce to you the
thing that moves us as a department.
• How we keep focused on the right
things for the right reasons.
• How our kids are the most important
part of our thinking. Every child, every
moment, every day. We take this
seriously. And Love Our People on the
way…
Developmental Preschool
(Special Education Section 619)
• Immerse children in language and print rich environment
(reading stories, looking at books, using books and
pictures to inform, name recognition and printing,
Zoophonics)
• Build and expand on what children say (developing
vocabulary, asking for wants and needs, social
interactions, assertiveness training, awareness of feelings)
• Provide culturally and linguistically diverse models of
communication including voice, touch, gesture, facial
expression
• Provide special or assistive devices (ipad) to increase
children’s level of participation in literacy activities
(writing name)
Elementary Literacy
Haller Literacy (LAP)
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The LAP Literacy support at Helen Haller works with children in
kindergarten, first, second, and third grades. The reading team at
Haller is led by Betsy Smith, who teaches alongside four reading
paraeducators and the ELL paraeducator, Sonja Younger. They are
called the Rolling Readers because they "roll" their crates from
class to class throughout the day, working in small groups in and out
of the classrooms. At Haller, Betsy Smith also takes time to provide
ongoing training to the reading and ELL paraeducators. She meets
with teachers throughout the year to evaluate the progress of the
students and to plan together strategies to provide additional help
for struggling readers. Betsy and some of her reading team also run a
twice weekly after school program, the Star Reader Club, for second
graders.
Helen Haller has a historic volunteer reading program. There are
approximately thirty-five trained community members who work oneon-one with students in grades one through five. Betsy offered three
training sessions this past year.
Example of hands-on learning to support high frequency word acquisition,
phonics principles and engagement.
Greywolf Literacy (LAP)
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Krista Chatters leads the literacy team at Greywolf with four
literacy paraeducators who receive ongoing weekly Reading
Para Training. In addition to serving K-3 Literacy, Greywolf is also
able to add service to 4th and 5th grade struggling readers
through the Read Right program. Greywolf introduced two new
interventions this year and provided SWAT team approach to
Kindergarten reading support which resulted in significant
improvement in Kindergarten reading data.
Krista also led grade level teams K-2 in writing Student Growth
Goals in reading which resulted in further reading success. A KEEP
BOOK Albert Haller Grant for $3000.00 helped Greywolf begin a
take home book initiative to help build home libraries for students.
Greywolf increased their Reading Tutors through 3 trainings
offered this year resulting in 31 new Reading Tutors.
Example of cut-up sentence work to support phrasing and concepts of print. Highlight tape is
used for hands-on learning with phonics principles and fluency work.
English Language Learners
The ELL student population throughout the district benefit from not
only their individual ELL instruction which focuses on vocabulary,
pronunciation, word and letter recognition, but also from LAP and
Title 1 Literacy interventions. The ELL Specialist coordinates with the
Reading Specialists at both elementary schools and participates in
their training. This ensures a continuity of literacy instruction among
all intervention staff and all struggling readers.
Supporting the reading and writing connection. This work is from an ELL learner .
Illustrations are used to support vocabulary acquisition and meaning
OPA Literacy (LAP)
• This year Learning Assistance Program services have been
extended to support literacy instruction to our students in
grades 1-4 attending Olympic Peninsula Academy.
More Elementary Literacy
Secondary
English Languate Arts
• Read Right instruction grade 8
• ELL support grades 6-12
• Resource support grades 6-12
Read Right (Title I)
• Read Right immerses struggling readers in reading
activities plus the right kind of coaching and guidance to
help individuals figure out all of the complex aspects of the
reading process. When struggling readers implicitly begin to
focus on the construction of meaning each and every time
they read rather than focus on single words in isolation, they
begin to "remodel" how they read for the specific purpose of
comprehension. This is an important key to the success of
Read Right methodology.
• Eloise Ware is our certificated, highly trained Read Right tutor
–teacher at 8th grade, SMS. She has been recertified 5 times
over the years and has received high praise from the Read
Right consultants, especially for her delivery of the critical
thinking portion of the program.
Read Right Word Picture
• SMS ELA teachers also realize the benefits of Read Right: “I
have a student currently in Read Right whose attitude towards
reading and school have changed miraculously. Before Read
Right, this student was one of my most disruptive characters.
Well—that was last semester. This semester, he enrolled in
Read Right, and has become a different student. The one-onone attention helped this student learn to believe in himself
and his ability. He started to turn in work. He was one of the
few students to earn an A on my most recent assessment on
our class novel…..his behavior has improved as well. Thank you
for allowing us to have this service, which makes such a
difference in the lives of students. I wish more students could
have access to Eloise and Read Right.”
12th Grade Graduation Support
Through SDI Language Arts Class
• Case Manager = Graduation Coach
• Graduation Coach: meeting individual student needs in both
credit & assessment requirements
-Steve Brown’s Language Arts course – similar to the
Collection of Evidence course
• students are completing assessment modules along the
way in preparation for DAPE (Developmentally
Appropriate Proficiency Exam), SBAC
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• In a nutshell, credit & assessment requirements should mirror
the daily learning experiences students are having. The course
is designed in a way that creates this for our students receiving
services in Special Education.
Some Numbers
Highly qualified teachers: 6
Highly qualified paraeducators: 12
Number of preschool students: 33
Number of students K-5: 345
Number of ELL students: 40
Number of students served in grade 8: 30
Number of students served in 12th grade
SDI LA: 15