Amplify ELAT Newsletter--December 10, 2019

Amplify ELAT Newsletter--December 10, 2019

ELAT Program Contacts and Administrators

Benchmark Completion

December is here and a very busy time of the year! For those schools that are doing their Middle of Year (MOY) benchmark assessments in December, please make sure you are checking your fidelity report on a regular basis to ensure everyone is assessed within your window. For more information on how to pull this report you can go to the mclass.amplify.com “Training Tile” and click on the “Reporting and Analysis Suite Tutorial” for a short review.

Upcoming Professional Development

The ELAT Team has been working hard to prepare for the Middle of Year regional sessions. If you haven’t had a chance to register for a session, please make sure you do so soon so we can have the right amount of participant notebooks at your session. These sessions provide support to you so that you can comfortably lead important data conversations and create action plans for next semester. See below for the objectives of each session for leaders:

MOY Data Analysis for Leaders

• Review key MOY data for school, grades, and teachers through reports at the composite score and measure levels
• Identify both celebrations within the data and underlying causes that affect instructional change
• Reflect on MOY Pathways Achieved to make adjustments for the next semester of instruction
• Customize and practice leading data conversations using your “Make It, Take It” slide deck

MOY Instructional Planning & Delivery for Leaders

• Review the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework
• Reflect on previous student achievement and levels of success by tier
• Identify gaps in schoolwide data and contributing system-level levers
• Identify and prioritize strategic systems-level decisions that will support teachers and students in meeting schoolwide goals
• Work collaboratively to create an actionable schoolwide plan

Check out the sessions listed in the Teacher/Interventionists/Coaches section of the newsletter and make sure you have staff from your school attending these important sessions!

ELAT Newsletter for TEACHERS/INTERVENTIONISTS/COACHES

We know many of you are taking the time to do your Middle of Year (MOY) benchmark assessments during December. We hope you are seeing great growth in your students’ reading progress! 

Upcoming Professional Development

During our Middle of Year regional sessions we will be leading you through steps to look at your data in a variety of ways and providing support as you create action plans for next semester.  See below for the objectives of our sessions.  If you are not yet registered for one or the other, please do so soon so we can make sure there are enough participant notebooks at each session!  We are looking forward to having you attend!

MOY Data Analysis for Teachers

• Interpret recent benchmark assessment data at the composite score level, measure level and probe level
• Review student goals set and pathways achieved using Pathways of Progress
• Identify celebrations and reflect on root causes for growth areas within the data
• Form small groups using DIBELS Next measure-level data in order to address student needs and review the strategic small groups generated on the Instruction page
• Determine high-level instructional next steps for each small group

MOY Instructional Planning & Delivery for Teachers

• Review the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework
• Organize instructional resources to target Basic Early Literacy Skills
• Review the strategic small groups generated on the Instruction page
• Utilize the range of suggested, targeted lessons on the Instruction page in order to develop a series of differentiated instructional plans
• Practice delivering most immediate whole group and small group lessons

Also, there is still time to register for the online flipped webinar series on Pathways of Progress or Advanced Progress Monitoring. These sessions are a combination of online and offline learning in February and March. To learn more about this professional development, you can view this short video.