Intervention: COMPREHENSIVE LITERACY PROGRAM - Tier I Intervention
All students at Booker Arts Magnet School will have access to and be engaged with a rigorous standards-based Language Arts Core Curriculum that is appropriately paced and regularly assessed. Students will have designated learning targets and teachers will provide grade level instruction built on "best instructional practices". When students have difficulty reading their designated learning targets, the instructional staff at Booker Arts Magnet School will support them with supplemental, tiered instruction.
PROGRAM EVALUATION: Effectiveness of Tier I interventions will be determined by 80% of students having a composite score of 70% or greater on the quarterly SOAR assessment.
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Actions
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Person Responsible
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Timeline
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Resources
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Source of Funds
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Provide professional development for kindergarten-fifth grade teachers such as ELLA, Effective Literacy, Literacy Lab, Step Up to Writing, Daily Five, and Arkansas History (for those teaching the content).
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Professional Development
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Cheryl Carson, Principal
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Start: 07/01/2011
End: 05/31/2012
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District Staff
Outside Consultants
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General Revenue:
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$0.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$0
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Provide professional development for the Literacy Coach such as Coaches' LRSD Coaches Meetings, the Literacy Conference, Parental Involvement, and Professional Learning Communities.
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Professional Development
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Cheryl Carson, Principal
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Start: 08/05/2011
End: 05/31/2012
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General Revenue:
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$500.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$500
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Utilize literacy coach to assist teachers in implementing instructional strategies learned in ELLA, Effective Literacy, and Literacy Lab in classrooms.
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Professional Development
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Sunny Hawk, Literacy Coach
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Utilize consultants to model effective instructional strategies learned in ELLA, Effective Literacy, and Literacy Lab strategies for classroom teachers such as Sabrina Stout, Dr. Betsy Kaye, and Karen James.
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Professional Development
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Cheryl Carson, Principal
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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District Staff
Outside Consultants
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Purchase textbooks for participants in ELLA, Effective Literacy, and Literacy Lab for training. Purchase professional texts to support utilization of curriculum maps.
Action Type: Alignment
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Lou Alley, Instructional Coach
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Start: 07/01/2011
End: 09/30/2011
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General Revenue:
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$500.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$500
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Select and purchase leveled books and big books for kindergarten and first grade teachers to utilize while implementing strategies learned in ELLA and the LRSD Literacy Curriculum Maps.
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Collaboration
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Lou Alley, Instructional Coach
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Start: 07/01/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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General Revenue:
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$1000.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$1000
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Select and purchase sets of novels for second-fifth grade teachers to utilize while implementing strategies learned in Effective Literacy, Literacy Lab, and the LRSD Literacy Curriculum maps.
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Collaboration
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Lou Alley, Instructional Coach
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Start: 07/01/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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General Revenue:
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$1000.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$1000
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Select and purchase books for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classroom libraries to implement strategies learned in ELLA, Effective Literacy and Literacy Lab and the LRSD curriculum maps.
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Collaboration
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Lou Alley, Instructional Coach
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Start: 07/01/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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General Revenue:
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$1000.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$1000
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Select and purchase fiction and nonfiction texts for student use in the Media Center and classroom libraries focusing on nonfiction in the intermediate grades.
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Equity
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Sunny Hawk, Literacy Coach and Krystal Henderson, Media Specialist
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Start: 07/01/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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General Revenue:
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$1000.00
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ACTION BUDGET:
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$1000
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Administer HMH Comprehensive Screening Assessment or Emerging Literacy Survey to students to identify instructional level for literacy. If necessary, follow up with diagnostic assessments.
Action Type: Alignment
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Molly Clark, Loretta Ellington, Micaela Battles, Susan Blue, Darrell Hayden-Classroom Teachers
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Provide a two and one-half hour uninterrupted literacy block for kindergarten through fifth grade students to insure adequate time to implement the Comprehensive Literacy Program.
Action Type: Collaboration
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Cheryl Carson, Principal
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Record running records and HMH weekly assessments monthly to assess the decoding skills, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary acquisition of kindergarten-second grade students as identified in Curriculum Maps..
Action Type: Program Evaluation
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Vearlon Jeffries, Molly Clark, Loretta Ellington, Shirley Marshall-Classroom Teachers
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Collaborate with staff and parents to develop and implement Intensive Reading Interventions and Academic Improvement Plans to focus on the needs of students working below grade level.
Action Type: AIP/IRI
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Parental Engagement
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Cheryl Carson, Principal and Ruth Keogh, Literacy and Math Teacher
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Collaborate with staff and parents to develop and implement IEPs and 504 plans to focus on the needs of identified students.
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Parental Engagement
Action Type: Special Education
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Mary McMorran and Shirley Marshall, Resource; Steve McGuire, Speech; Tamara Ringler, 504 Coordinator
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Conduct monthly Literacy Team meetings with kindergarten-fifth grade teachers to review curriculum maps, score common formative assessments, and disaggregate assessment data.
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Collaboration
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Sunny Hawk, Literacy Coach; Ruth Keogh, Literacy and Math Teacher
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/31/2012
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Schedule and conduct no less than two conferences with the parents of all students to discuss progress, including students with AIPs, IRIs, IEPs, and 504 plans.
Action Type: AIP/IRI
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Parental Engagement
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Mary McMorran, Vearlon Jeffries, Molly Clark, Loretta Ellington, Micaela Battles, Susan Blue, Darrell Hayden-Teachers
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Community Leaders
District Staff
Teachers
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Provide instruction utilizing instructional strategies learned in ELLA such as Read Aloud, Shared Reading, Guided Reading, Familiar Reading, Literacy Corners, Turn and Talk, and Classroom Libraries for all kindergarten and first grade students.
Action Type: AIP/IRI
Action Type: Equity
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Vearlon Jeffries, Kindergarten Teacher; Molly Clark and Shirley Marshall, First Grade Teachers
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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District Staff
Teaching Aids
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Provide instruction utilizing instructional strategies learned in Effective Literacy and Literacy Lab such as Word Sorts, Book Talks, Poetry, Writing Workshop, Reading Workshop, Guided Reading, Daily Oral Language Activities, Read Alouds, Turn and Talk, and Classroom Libraries for all second through fifth grade students.
Action Type: AIP/IRI
Action Type: Equity
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Loretta Ellington, Micaela Battles, Susan Blue, Darrell Hayden, Shirley Marshall-Classroom Teachers
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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District Staff
Teaching Aids
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Utilize STAR Assessment to identify first through fifth grade students' independent reading levels to guide students in self-selecting texts for motivation and before and after school reading.
Action Type: Equity
Action Type: Technology Inclusion
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Krystal Henderson, Media Specialist
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 09/30/2011
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Provide kindergarten through fifth grade students with models of good readers such as Book Talks, VIPS Reading Day, and the Parent Resource Center.
Action Type: Collaboration
Action Type: Parental Engagement
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Sunny Hawk, Literacy Coach and Krystal Henderson, Media Specialist
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Community Leaders
District Staff
School Library
Teachers
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Utilize strategies to encourage student self-selection of books, such as Reading Recess, Book Clubs, book talks during morning announcements, Accelerated Reader, reading to students daily, VIPS Reading Day, Million Minutes, and Book Fairs.
Action Type: Equity
Action Type: Technology Inclusion
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Cheryl Carson, Principal; Krystal Henderson, Media Specialist
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/30/2012
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Identify and implement strategies to increase vocabulary development across all curriculum areas.
Action Type: Alignment
Action Type: Equity
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Sunny Hawk, Literacy Coach and Lou Alley, Instructional Coach
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/31/2012
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Identify and implement strategies such as the use of an age appropriate checklist for test-taking strategies to assist second through fifth grade students in identifying the tasks in a selection, accessing given knowledge, and developing an accurate response to open response items and kindergarten and first grade students in listening skills and appropriate test taking strategies.
Action Type: AIP/IRI
Action Type: Alignment
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Sunny Hawk, Literacy Coach and Lou Alley, Instructional Coach
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Start: 08/15/2011
End: 05/31/2012
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