Sustained professional development model combining training days, site visits, observations, and ongoing coaching¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The program's professional development model provides school staff with 10 days of professional development given over two years, plus 6-8 site visits offering tailored professional development, tutor observations, and coaching. It also includes ongoing data analysis and progress monitoring, classwide assessments for student selection, and provided materials such as training manuals and leveled book sets. The page states that the combination of training plus daily program implementation "significantly enhances pedagogical knowledge and skills."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Schools must nominate at least three staff members, one of whom serves as program coordinator
• A two-year minimum partnership commitment

Constraints¶

• Training is spread over two years rather than delivered as a single block

Target Learners¶

• school staff members: teachers and paraprofessionals serving beginning readers

Target Learning Goals¶

• pedagogical knowledge and skills for accelerating literacy
• delivery of structured one-on-one tutoring

Related Strategies¶

• Intensive trainer-led observation and feedback model for tutoring professional development
• Brief initial training with extensive follow-up coaching and on-site facilitation for whole-school program implementation
• Sustained teacher professional development with coaching and professional learning communities
• Provide comprehensive professional development and ongoing coaching when implementing a structured literacy program
• Support facilitator uptake of co-regulation through in-person training plus biweekly coaching calls and classroom site visits
• Provide implementation professional development and support approximately every three weeks
• Select tutoring providers that tailor professional development to tutor experience levels and invest in student-tutor relationship building
• Transportable tutoring protocol with structured tutor training and supervision

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Reading Go! (formerly Reading Rescue). (2021). Evidence for ESSA program description (no publication date printed on page). https://evidenceforessa.org/program/reading-rescue/