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How to Select Evidence-Based Improvement Strategies & Use Federal Funds to Support Them

February 26, 2019 WASBO Federal Funding Conference Melissa A. Kahn, Educational Consultant - Special Education Team Wendy Savaske, Educational Consultant - Title I & School Support Team

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WILL: WILL NOT:

• Give you a 30,000 foot

perspective

• Ground you in critical adaptive

mindsets and key information

• Open opportunities for

co-development/feedback

• Give you an “in the weeds”

perspective

• Provide technical next steps and a

checklist for compliance purposes

• Be DPI telling you what to do

Coherent Continuous Improvement for Advancing Equity

How do we know which of the investments we’re making lead to the results we want for Wisconsin students?

Federal Identifications: Focus on Responsiveness to Needs

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act District Level Every Student Succeeds Act School Level

LEA Determinations Racial disproportionality (identification, placement, discipline) Targeted Support (subgroups) Additional Targeted Support (subgroups) Comprehensive Support (all students/school)

Continuous Improvement Process

School and district improvement plans Educator Effectiveness (SLO and PPG) IDEA improvement plan(s) ESEA improvement plan for focus and/or priority schools Continuous improvement of adult practices to improve student outcomes

What is an Evidence-Based Improvement Strategy?

Evidence-based improvement strategies are practices or programs that have evidence to show they are effective at producing results and improving

• utcomes when implemented as intended.

Evidence for ESSA

• Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), districts and schools

were called to use “scientifically-based research” as the foundation for education programs and interventions.

• This has been replaced by “evidence-based interventions”

under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Four Tiers of Evidence

Tier 1 Strong Evidence: supported by one or more well-designed and well-implemented randomized control experimental studies. Tier 2 Moderate Evidence: supported by one or more well-designed and well-implemented quasi-experimental studies. Tier 3 Promising Evidence: supported by one or more well-designed and well-implemented correlational studies (with statistical controls for selection bias). Tier 4 Demonstrates a Rationale: practices that have a well-defined logic model or theory of action, are supported by research, and have some effort underway by an SEA, LEA, or outside research organization to determine their effectiveness.

Why are the Tiers Important?

• ESSA Identified Schools (CSI, ATSI, TSI):

○ Evidence-Based Improvement Strategies are required to have strong, moderate, or promising evidence (Tiers 1–3) to support them.

• All other programs under Titles I–IV can rely on Tiers 1–4.

Federal Funding Source Allowable Expenditures Title I -

• Schoolwide:

○ Professional learning and coaching & resources to implement the evidence-based improvement strategy aligned to the schoolwide plan

• Targeted Assistance:

○ Professional development with Title I funds focuses on staff who provide direct support to Title I students and is aligned with these students’ needs. ○ Title I funds are used to support additional for identified students instruction using an evidence- based improvement strategy aligned to an identified need.

Federal Funding

Federal Funding Source Allowable Expenditures Title IIa

• High quality professional learning and coaching aligned to the

Evidence-Based Improvement Strategy

• Contracted services for professional learning
• Conferences aligned to Evidence-Based Improvement Strategy
• PD Supplies for a meetings (chart paper, markers, binders etc.)

Federal Funding

Federal Funding Source Allowable Expenditures CSI Planning Grant

• Stipends, salaries, fringe for school stakeholders to complete continuous

improvement activities (such as needs assessment with root cause analysis, research and identifying an evidence-based improvement strategy, identifying resource inequities, and creation of an improvement aligned to identified needs)

• Professional development and/or purchased services for continuous

improvement

• Supplies for stakeholder meetings (as outlined by district policy
• Purchase materials to implement programs or practices aligned to the

research requirements (Tiers 1-3) of ESSA, and professional development for staff to support the improvement plan.

Federal Funding

Federal Funding Source Allowable Expenditures IDEA

• All Students

○ Coordinated early intervening services: may elect to reserve up to 15% of IDEA funds for professional development for teachers/school staff to deliver scientifically based academic instruction and behavioral interventions and providing educational and behavioral evaluations, services, and supports. . ○ Title I Schoolwide Set-aside (calculation instructions, here)

• Students with IEPs:

○ Personnel, purchased services, capital and non-capital objects to support implementation of evidence-based improvement strategies (allowable costs, here)

Federal Funding

Implementation Drivers

Competency Drivers Organization Drivers Leadership Drivers Technical Adaptive Selection Training Coaching Fidelity Consistent Use of Innovations

Reliable Benefits

Decision Support Data System Facilitative Administration Systems Intervention

Integrated & Compensatory

NIRN

NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH NETWORK

The Hexagon

An Exploration Tool

National Implementation Research Network. The Hexagon: An Exploration Tool. 2018.

Turn & Talk Now that you have a 30,000 foot view of the tool, how does this connect to your intended impact

• n children?

Coherent Continuous Improvement for Advancing Equity

How do we know which of the investments we’re making lead to the results we want for Wisconsin students?

Interested in Helping?

Melissa A. Kahn melissa.kahn@dpi.wi.gov 608-266-3126 Wendy Savaske wendy.savaske@dpi.wi.gov 608-267-7461

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