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Eastern School Improvement Grants (SIG) Conference

Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published: 4/20/2011 11:25 AM
The Center on Instruction is a co-sponsor of the four regional School Improvement Grants (SIG) conferences held in April and May 2011. The second one, the Eastern SIG Conference, was held April 13-14 in Washington, DC, and included a presentation by COI-Literacy Deputy Director Debby Houston Miller and Doing What Works (DWW) Content Lead Peggy Simon on Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Bridging Research to Practice and Supporting School Improvement Efforts. The PowerPoint presentation and handouts used during the session, including tools from DWW, are available for download below. Also available are the handouts from a breakfast session on Reading Comprehension by Dr. Simon.

Presenting for COI-ELL, Nonie Lesaux and Julie Russ of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, conducted a session on Organizing for the Success of English Language Learners. The PowerPoint presentation from their session is also available for download below.

COI-Math Consultant Ben Clarke and Turnaround Specialist and RTII Expert Joy Eichelberger presented on RTI in Mathematics: A Focus on Assessment. Their PowerPoint presentations are also available for download below.

Files available for this event:

277.1 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Breakfast Session DWW Adolescent Literacy Text Discussion
174 KB application/msword Breakfast Session DWW Highlights of DWW PD Materials on Adolescent Literacy
152.36 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Breakfast Session DWW Highlights of DWW PD Materials on Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools
465.37 KB application/pdf Breakfast Session DWW Mark It Up! Questioning and Making Connections
124.5 KB application/msword Breakfast Session DWW Observation Tool: Using Text Discussion to Further Reading Comprehension
137 KB application/msword Breakfast Session DWW Planning for Engaging Text Discussions
546.14 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Breakfast Session DWW See How It Works Text Discussion Resources
797.52 KB application/pdf Breakfast Session DWW Visual Diagram of Adolescent Literacy
138.5 KB application/msword DWW: Conducting A Self-Assessment of Adolescent Literacy Intervention Opportunities
1.68 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document DWW: Learn See Do Resource Packet
283.05 KB application/pdf DWW: Low Performing Schools Visual Diagram
116 KB application/msword DWW: Planning Template for Working with Schools
116.04 KB application/pdf DWW: Transcript of Effective Strategies that Boost Reading Comprehension
43 KB application/msword DWW: Vocabulary & Comprehension Strategy School Assessment Chart
181.5 KB application/msword Literacy Component Resources Handout
4.33 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation PPT: Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Bridging Research to Practice and Supporting School Improvement Efforts
3.61 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation PPT: Organizing for the Success of ELLs
2.15 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation PPT: RTI in Mathematics - A Focus on Assessment
2.02 MB application/vnd.ms-powerpoint PPT: Turning Around Low Performing Schools: Getting Started
179.24 KB application/pdf Synopsis of "Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading"

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