Support PowerUp implementation with layered professional development: customized planning, product training, and ongoing data coaching¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The page describes a multi-part professional development model intended to equip educators to "implement PowerUp with fidelity to deliver successful student outcomes". A customer success team customizes training to school goals and timelines, covering implementation planning, product training, and data reviews and data coaching throughout the year, delivered on-site or live online, supplemented by the self-paced Lexia Academy eLearning platform.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Training is customized in partnership with a dedicated customer success team based on each school or district's goals and timelines.

Constraints¶

• Professional development offerings are provided by the program vendor (Lexia), so implementation support is tied to the commercial product.

Target Learners¶

• middle and high school teachers of struggling readers
• school and district literacy staff

Target Learning Goals¶

• fidelity of program implementation
• using progress-monitoring data to target instruction

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Lexia Learning. (2023). Lexia PowerUp Literacy — Evidence Rating: Promising. Program evidence summary page. https://www.lexialearning.com/powerup-literacy