GOT BART?

“Aren't we forgetting

the true meaning of

Christmas? You know... the birth

of Santa.”

POSITIVE ACADEMIC SUPPORTS

SUPPORT TRANSITION

GOT BART?“I've been acting like a 10 year old the last 30 years,

but I swear i'm going to grow up and act 20 like a divorced 40 year

old should.”

WHAT DO YOU WANT

FOR YOUR CHILDREN?

BRIAN’S STORY

TRANSITION

•Begin with the end in mind

•School success = life success

•School failure causes are known

•School success factors are known

•The earlier the better

•Positive academic supports

BENCHMARK THERAPY, 2012

CHALLENGE•L.A. scores

•Graduation

•College, Career ready

•Life Trajectory

•Common Core Shifts

UTAH CRT, (2011)

Utah 8th Grade L.A. CRT

•10% (all) below proficient

•7% white below proficient

•23% Hispanics below proficient

•50% SWD below proficient

UTAH NAEP, (2011)

Utah 8th Grade L.A. NAEP

•65% (all) below proficient

•60% white below proficient

•87% Hispanics below proficient

•80% SWD below proficient

LIFE TRAJECTORY

•Dropouts 4 x likely to be unemployed

•8 x likely to be incarcerated

•70+% incarcerated youth are dropouts

•$33K/year/incarcerate:

$5,978/year/school

•Dropouts live 5 years less grads

UTAH CORE SHIFTS

EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION

Coordinated, Comprehensive, School-wide:

•High academic standards for all students

•Common instructional routines-all classes

•Quality, sustained PD (coaching, PLC’s)

•High implementation accountability

POSITIVE ACADEMIC

SUPPORTS will:• Improve graduation rate

• Increase college, career readiness & success

• Teach valuable life skills; TRANSITION

• Decrease incarceration numbers

• Increase personal and community finances

POSITIVE ACADEMIC SUPPORTS

• Research-bang-for-buck, ALL ED.

• Generalizes, K-12+, all content

• Empowers all teachers (without killing them)

• More success = less remediation

• Transfer responsibility of learning to students

COMPREHENSION ROUTINE

RESEARCH:(W

(What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide (2008)

Keys to Literacy ROUTINE

CONCEPT MAPPING, GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

TOP-DOWN WEB

•0.75 What Works in Schools, Marzano,

(2003)

•0.57 Visible Learning, Hattie, (2009)

TOP-DOWN WEB

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Top-Down Web

Two-Column Notes

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Top-Down Web

2-Column Notes

TWO-COLUMN NOTES

SUMMARIZING

• 1.00 What Works in Schools,

Marzano (2003)

• 0.69 Visible Learning, Hattie, (2009)

• 0.59 Improving Adolescent

Literacy, IES (2008)

2-Column Notes

Summary

Question Generation

BLOOMS TAXONOMY

•0.59 What Works in Schools, Marzano

(2003)

•0.46 Visible Learning, Hattie, (2009)

QUESTION GENERATION

QUESTION GENERATION

TRANSITION

•Begin with the end in mind

•School success = life success

•School failure causes are known

•School success factors are known

•The earlier the better

•Positive academic supports

ADOLESCENT LITERACY ROUTINE

KEYS TO LITERACY

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