TLI Looking Ahead
Program Evaluation and Sustainability
TLI EOY Data Meeting 2016
Please review this newsletter prior to our meeting on Wednesday. We will be working on creating data views for language acquisition and literacy related achievement and revising our assessment audits for campus RTI processes next school year.
Action Steps:
1. Instructional Specialists - come prepared to work on the assessment audit with your team.
2. Principals - come prepared with thoughts on what types of data views you would like to utilize on your campus and consider inviting other members of your admin. team to join your team on Wednesday.
TLI EOY Data Meeting
June 8th
9:00 - 12:00
Event Center
Sustainability Under ESSA
At the EOY data meeting we will build off this foundation for sustainability in our systems and processes to look at the programs and personnel that need to be sustained based on demonstrated effectiveness. The Assessment Audit and Assessment Action Step A5 will be 2 components utilized in our sustainability discussions. The following sections demonstrate the connection between these components and ESSA.
Assessment Audit
- Instructional Specialists guide their campus leadership teams to conduct assessment audits. The goal is to identify the assessments needed to inform instruction and intervention for all 3 Tiers, as well as the use, alignment, validity, and timeline for each assessment.
- Are there students at risk for or currently experiencing difficulties in literacy whom we can identify right away?
- What are the specific causes for students' difficulties in literacy?
- How are students responding to literacy instruction and intervention?
- How did students do overall in literacy achievement, and what does this say about the effectiveness of literacy instruction at our school?
Action Step A5
- Instructional Specialists guide their campus leadership teams to conduct a program evaluation of their comprehensive literacy plan.
- In general, analyzing student outcomes is an activity within your campus's assessment cycle that is focused on instructional planning at the campus and/or district level. It includes collaborative analysis and discussion among instructional leaders, teachers, and specialists to address program-wide gaps in meeting students' language and literacy needs.
- What areas of strength or areas in need of growth do outcome data indicate should be addressed?
- Have our instructional decisions made an impact? In core instruction? In Tiers II and III instruction?
- What challenges do we continue to face in allocating resources and efficiently providing services that target students' needs? How do we address those challenges in the future?
Connections to ESSA
Assessment Audit
Section 1202 ‘‘(B) ensure that each local educational agency receiving funds under this section—‘‘(i) conducts an audit of local assessments administered by the local educational agency as described in paragraph (4); and ‘‘(ii) submits the results of such audit to the State"
Section 1202 ‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS .—A subgrant awarded under this subsection to a local educational agency... may be used to ‘‘(A) conduct an audit of local assessments... ‘‘(D) hire instructional coaches... to support teachers in the development of classroom-based assessments, interpreting assessment data, and designing instruction;
Assessment Action Step A5
Section 2224 ‘‘(1) Developing and implementing a comprehensive literacy instruction plan across content areas... ‘‘(2) Training principals, specialized instructional support personnel, school librarians, and other local educational agency personnel to support, develop, administer, and evaluate high quality comprehensive literacy instruction initiatives... ‘‘(5) Forming a school literacy leadership team to help implement, assess, and identify necessary changes to the literacy initiatives
Resources on program evaluation and determining sustainability of programs
Links to resources
Provided for gathering ideas to strengthen program evaluation skills, not necessarily for following step-by-step.
Monitoring fidelity in RTI
http://www.rti4success.org/video/monitoring-fidelity-rti
Guiding questions for analyzing outcome data
http://ontrack-media.net/TSLP/docs/asmt/Lesson5_File1_AnalyzingData.pdf
Campus Needs Assessment Tool - Reading
http://buildingrti.utexas.org/sites/default/files/booklets/CNAT_Reading.pdf