Responding to Data
Included in this 3 part series is an interactive overview of MTSS, Data-Based Decision Making (K-3 & 4-12), Fidelity and Intensifying Instruction. Each recorded webinar is 15-20 minutes in length and includes guidance in best practices in responding to literacy data. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your Regional Literacy Consultant for follow-up and support.
Interventions
A review of healthy indicator data has shown that there are many districts not entering interventions in Student Success as required. Panorama’s Student Success system is the official data collection for ELI intervention requirements. If you are unsure about how to set up interventions, here is a link to a set of articles to help learn about intervention management: https://iowa-mtss.helpscoutdocs.com/category/123-create-interventions In addition to the requirement, we believe that when interventions and progress monitoring data are available together, the tools for evaluating intervention effectiveness will be valuable for many school leaders concerned about improving outcomes for students.
Literacy Status
The Student Success system automatically calculates literacy status for all K-6 students. Please use these for all literacy status decisions and actions. There is no need to calculate literacy status yourselves. You can find the literacy status for an individual student on his/her individual page, in the demographic information at the top of the page. There are literacy status filters for most reports on the left side in the demographic filters. Literacy status is not represented by color-coding in either FAST or Student Success. Here is a link to additional resources: https://iowa-mtss.helpscoutdocs.com/category/128-iowa-eli
Learning Opportunities
Register for upcoming training webinars and watch recordings of webinars for Student Success here: https://iowa-mtss.helpscoutdocs.com/collection/109-webinars
If you need assistance with FAST or Student Success, the Iowa team is ready to help. Please help us by using the correct ticket system whenever possible. Start the ticket in the system where you see the problem.
For Student Success click the green Need Help button in the lower right
For FAST, click the Support link in the upper left
- https://iowa-mtss.helpscoutdocs.com/article/134-where-do-i-go-for-help
Decodable & Irregular Word
Padlet of resources to support decodable and irregular word instruction.
Book List for Children from Infancy to Adolescence
This is a curated list of books for infancy to adolescence from the Haskins Global Lab. This list is meant to give parents a starting point into the wonderful world of books. Here are just a few titles that are great to pick from. The books listed here have been read and selected by librarians, researchers, and parents from the quality of their stories, their appeal to children of specific ages, and their Lexile levels. This means they are both interesting and appropriate for children and youth at the different stages of reading development. The booklist has been structured into four stages to fit best with the readers’ level: Early Childhood, Early Readers, Developing Readers, and More Advanced Readers.
Understanding by Design
Building an instructional plan around the overarching learning we want from our students, anchors every piece of the unit - the standards, the assessment, the instruction - in the learning outcome. In other words, start at the desired end goal and build backwards from there. Here is a great website on Backward Design approach: videos, templates, information, and more.
