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Online Event Archives Web telecast archives, with accompanying resource materials from the event. You can watch and listen to the presentation, questions, and discussion. May 28, 2008 RTI in a Secondary School Setting: Riverbank High School Story Since school-wide implementation of the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC), a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework designed to address school-wide literacy needs of secondary school students, Riverbank High School has grown over 100 points on California’s Academic Performance Index (API) and exceeded growth targets for Latino students, students with disabilities, and English learners. In this session, a high school administrator, a central office administrator, and a project lead/instructional coach will share their experiences from four years of implementing the CLC in a high poverty, high minority, suburban/semi-rural high school identified for improvement. This session will provide an overview of the CLC, which is based upon a set of Content Enhancement Routines and Learning Strategies developed by the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. May 13, 2008 RTI Process Steps: A Small Elementary School's Approach to Implementation This interactive presentation will focus on the five essential components for effective Response to Intervention (RTI) implementation. Silvia DeRuvo, Senior Program Associate with the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, will provide a brief overview of these essential RTI components and the practical school implementation steps necessary for schools to effectively implement a successful RTI model. Brad Barcus, Principal of Sierra Elementary School, a 2007-2008 Title I Academic Achievement Award school, will provide the practical application of these steps as he describes the process that his small rural elementary school took in implementing an effective multi-tiered intervention model. Barcus will focus on the data that has driven the research-based instruction that has helped his school to achieve a score of 852 on the Academic Performance Index (API.) He will also share how his school effectively utilizes its resources to provide interventions for all students found to be “at risk.” Practitioners working with or in elementary schools will benefit from Sierra Elementary School’s “lessons learned” about the RTI process. May 7, 2008 Snapshots of RTI Implementation This webinar will summarize work being done by the Center on Instruction on school- and state-level implementation of RTI. Greg Roberts, Director of the Center on Instruction, Special Education Strand (COI-SPED), will provide a brief overview of the Center on Instruction’s RTI-related projects. Saro Mohammed, Research Associate at COI-SPED, will describe the information gathered to date from a collaborative project with teams from regional Comprehensive Centers and state educational agencies regarding the implementation of RTI at the state level. Kathryn Tackett, Research Associate at COI-SPED, will discuss how RTI is being implemented in different content areas at five elementary and middle schools around the country. She will describe how these five schools began implementing RTI, how interventions are provided, the role RTI plays in special education eligibility decisions, and the perceived challenges and benefits of implementing RTI. April 30, 2008 Critical Science Vocabulary If the concepts and vocabulary of science are not taught in grades one through four, students in middle school and beyond will be faced with an inordinate number of challenging words, representing complex and unknown concepts. In this presentation, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and facilitator of the California Vocabulary Forum, will discuss the need to make science vocabulary education a priority in grades one through four. She will include in her presentation the implications of findings from a recent study that indicates a significant decrease in the amount of time devoted to science instruction and also examine how the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading project has supported students’ vocabulary and literacy learning with science content. April 22, 2008 A County Immersed in Vocabulary Learn how one California county office of education has immersed itself in vocabulary. Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and facilitator of the California Vocabulary Forum (CVF), and Frank Smith, Director of Elementary Education at the Stanislaus County Office OF Education, will lead this webinar highlighting a county-wide effort emanating from the California Vocabulary Forum. Each grade span (elementary, middle to high school) has focused on a particular kind of vocabulary activity. For each vocabulary activity, an appropriate assessment was identified to verify that students were making the necessary gains. This presentation will provide examples of activities and assessments with photos of classrooms and interviews with teachers and county staff. April 17, 2008 Using Formative Assessments to Accelerate the Academic Achievement of English Learners This webinar will present key ideas about the use of formative assessment with English Learners to increase their academic achievement. Robert Anderson, Senior Assessment Specialist at WestEd, will focus on the systemic use of formative assessment to enhance learning opportunities for English Learners. Margaret Heritage, Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA, will draw from her new book, Formative Assessment for Literacy: Building Reading and Academic Language Across the Curriculum, to discuss ways in which formative assessment can assist teachers working with English Learners to develop skills in academic language. April 9, 2008 The Key Three Routine: Comprehension Strategy Instruction This webinar with Joan Sedita, Founding Partner of Keys to Literacy, will review the research on effective comprehension instruction and introduce participants to a model for embedding comprehension strategy instruction into content classroom instruction. Three foundational skills will be introduced: main idea skills, note taking and summarizing. Activities that incorporate these skills will also be reviewed, including topic webs, generating questions from main idea, two-column notes, and summaries from reading and class lecture. This webinar will be particularly useful for classroom teachers, administrators, and literacy specialists working with grades 4-12. March 20, 2008 Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership School administrators are busy people with a big job to do! The Internet offers a tremendous range of information, tools, and resources that can help administrators lead their schools and districts to excellence. But what administrator has time to search and sift through hundreds of web pages to find the right resource for right now? In this webinar, Jason Borgen, Program Coordinator of the Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL), will lead a guided tour of portical.org, which helps administrators in finding resources to assist in the day-to-day needs of their jobs, whether they are site level principals or district superintendents. These resources have been collected and organized by a cadre of technology-savvy, practicing administrators and meet criteria judged to be of value to other administrators. Simkins will also share information about the upcoming Leadership 3.0 Symposium that TICAL is co-sponsoring with California Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) and the Computer Using Educators (CUE). March 18, 2008 A School Immersed in Vocabulary Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and facilitator of the California Vocabulary Forum (CVF), will lead this webinar highlighting one California school’s improvement in vocabulary instruction based on information from the CVF. The principal and on-site coaches have led school staff in translating 18 months of CVF webcast content into practice. This presentation will provide examples of how the entire kindergarten through sixth grade school staff has been applying information from the CVF to improve their students’ performances. This webinar will feature audio interviews with the school staff. March 13, 2008 Preparing Leaders of Mathematics Professional Development In this webinar, Cathy Carroll, Senior Research Associate at WestEd, will introduce Learning to Lead Mathematics Professional Development (LLMPD), a set of video-based case materials designed to develop the skills, sensibilities, and long-term capacity of mathematics professional development leaders, enabling them to design and implement quality mathematics professional development. This webinar will engage participants in a simulation of an actual videocase. 1 to 10 of 78 Next |
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