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Leveraging Aligned Instructional Materials to Impact Student Achievement

Office of Academics

SCS High School English Plan

The quality of instructional materials in our classrooms has a large impact on student learning.

“There is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning – effects that rival in size those that are associated with differences in teacher effectiveness.”

Chingos & Whitehurst,

Choosing Blindly: Instructional Materials, Teacher Effectiveness, and the Common Core

• Introduction and Rationale
• Request
• Cost of Investment

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Agenda

Maintaining Growth Requires Continued Investment

Over the last two school years, we have made strategic decisions that have positively impacted high school literacy:

• Extensive revisions to the district curriculum maps
• Providing high-quality, standards-aligned instruction in grades

6-8, allowing students to enter high school with knowledge and strategies not seen before. To provide equity for high school literacy teachers, we want to continue to provide the same level of support with instructional materials for 9-12 that we are providing for 6-8.

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Current High School Units

Course 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter English I To Kill a Mockingbird Civil Rights and Romeo and Juliet The Odyssey Fahrenheit 451 English II Rhetoric Edgar Allen Poe Julius Caesar Henrietta’s Dance English III The Scarlet Letter Hamlet A More Perfect Union and Transcendent- alism American Dream and The Great Gatsby English IV A Hero with a Thousand Faces Gulliver’s Travels and Canterbury Tales Research Unit (PCG Paths Module 12.3) Public Education, Then and Now

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Agenda

• Introduction and Rationale
• Request
• Cost of Investment

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Our Big Bets

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Standards- Aligned Curriculum Resources Printed Student and Teacher Materials

LearnZillion Supports Effective Instruction

Standards-Aligned Resources:

• LearnZillion is a digital platform that translates high-quality,

standards-aligned curriculum to unpacked, scaffolded lessons for teachers.

• The unit materials include teaching notes, lesson slides,

quality work samples, student guidebooks, and unit readers.

• The supplement to our curriculum ensures that students are

engaging with complex text, supported by rigorous, yet intentional questions and tasks.

The curriculum units cannot be accessed or purchased individually, effective July 2018.

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The NEW LearnZillion Platform provides more resources and the ability to customize components:

• LearnZillion slides and teaching notes can now be modified to

fit the needs of SCS students.

• SCS curriculum writers are able to add in units to create a

universal access for teachers.

• Teacher logins grant access to assessment resources that can

be assigned to students.

• Student logins allow students to practice reading and

answering English questions in an online environment.

• Both the teacher logins and student logins grant access to

digital libraries.

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LearnZillion Supports Effective Instruction

Printed Materials from XanEdu Save Time for Teachers XanEdu is an educational publisher that is the sole source of printed student materials from Louisiana Believes.

• Students:

– Individual copies of required texts and work sheets. These materials align with lesson plans and instructional components and allow students to annotate and highlight during the lesson.

• Teachers:

– Individual copies of all grade level student materials that align with lesson plans and instructional components. These printed materials allow Teachers to annotate and highlight while preparing for the lesson.

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• Introduction and Rationale
• Request
• Cost of Investment

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Agenda

Cost of Investment

LearnZillion Platform User Licenses $186,000 Professional Development $106,500 Total $292,500 XanEdu Student Materials Student Editions $911,607.32 Teacher Editions $7,282.00 Total $918,889.32

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Total Costs: $1,211,389.32

Curricular Resources Printed Materials

The increased investment this year is due to three main factors:

• 1. LearnZillion platform access
• 2. Two additional 9-week units
• 3. Providing printed Teacher’s Editions

Shelby County Schools Curriculum Associates

Curriculum Associates

iReady materials are used as part of the districts RTI2 implementation. RTI2 is built

• n the premise that high-quality instruction and interventions are guided by

student needs and performance data.

Grade-Level Instruction Differentiated Instruction A Delicate Balance

ESSA

Curriculum Associates conducted comprehensive research that provides evidence that i-Ready Instruction meets criteria for ESSA Level 3: Promising Evidence, with favorable effects. The study demonstrated that students who use i-Ready Instruction experienced greater learning gains than students who did not use the program.

Adaptive Assessment

• Adaptive Diagnostic
• Standards Mastery Assessment
• Growth Monitoring
• Reading and Math

Personalized Learning & Intervention

• Personalized Instruction
• Address Skill Deficits
• Guaranteed Differentiation
• Reading and Math

Standards Mastery

Reading and Math: Grades 2-8 Two assessments per standard 6-10 items per assessment Administrator controlled

Item type examples: Non-Traditional Multiple Select

• Matching Tables
• Ordered Response
• Dropdown List
• Inline Choice
• Number Line
• Image Association & Mapping (Drag & Drop)
• Hot Text, Select Text, Reorder Text Order

Evidence-Based Selected Response Open-Ended

• Short Response
• Fill-in Tables
• Equation/Numeric Entry
• Graphing and Graphing Interaction

ü Blend of constructed, open- ended, and selected response items ü Broad range of audio, video, and imagery ü Complex, authentic texts ü Graphs, equations, and text highlighting.

Standards Mastery: Extensive Technology Enhanced Items

Tech-Enhanced Items

Math

Tech-Enhanced Items Reading

Tech-Enhanced Items

Math

Tech-Enhanced Items

Reading

Standards Mastery Report: District

Data Leads to Instruction

Standards Mastery Report: School

Data Leads to Instruction

Standards Mastery Reports: Class

Data Leads to Instruction

Sample Class

Item Analysis by Class and Student

Data Leads to Instruction

Data Leads to Instruction

Grade Level Standards Academic Behaviors Flexible Instruction

Data Leads to Instruction

Questions

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