Title I Program Evaluation

Report to the IDOE (Site Visit): April 3rd, 2014Parent Advisory Meeting/Program Evaluation: May 27th, 2014

Report to the CCSD Board of Education: June 16th, 2014Todd Martin, Title I Coordinator

Agenda

Agenda:

1. Welcome & Introductions2. Agenda-Review & Preview3. Data Review4. Evaluate Title I Parent Involvement

Policy and Compact5. Parent Involvement and Participation

Feedback6. Closure

Purpose

Purpose:• Our purpose is to conduct a Title I

Program Evaluation, eliciting feedback and input from all stakeholders, in efforts to continue to improve our programs and services for all learners and families.

• Build, fortify, and sustain partnerships with families to enhance the educational experience for learners.

Title I Program

• To ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments. This purpose can be accomplished by…….

Purpose:

Federal Action Steps

• Ensuring that high-quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with challenging State academic standards;

• Meeting the educational needs of low-achieving children

• Closing the achievement gap between high- and low-performing children;

• Holding schools, local educational agencies, and States accountable for improving the academic achievement of all students;

Federal Action Steps

• Distributing and targeting resources sufficiently;

• Improving and strengthening accountability, teaching, and learning by using State assessment systems designed to ensure that students are meeting challenging State academic achievement and content standards;

• Providing greater decision-making authority and flexibility to schools and teachers;

Federal Action Steps

• Providing children an enriched and accelerated educational program;

• Promoting school-wide reform and ensuring the access of children to effective, scientifically based instructional strategies and challenging academic content;

• Significantly elevating the quality of instruction by providing staff in participating schools with substantial opportunities for professional development;

• Coordinating services; and• Affording parents substantial and meaningful

opportunities to participate in the education of their children.

2013 – 2014 Action Steps for Improvement

1. Continue to collaborate with classroom teachers to align instruction

2. Work with classroom teachers to regularly use assessment data to drive decision-making

3. Use developmentally appropriate strategies to increase level of performance in the area of fluency

4. Consider tracking 3rd grade students (served by Title I in 2nd grade) to determine growth

Program Goal #1

• 75% of Title I students will meet or exceed their spring growth target on the MAP (Measures of Academic Progress).

Program Goal #1 Results

Program Goal #2

• 80% of Title I students will meet or exceed grade level targets for fluency and comprehension as measured by the spring BRI (Basic Reading Inventory).

Program Goal #2 Results

Program Goal #2 Results

Program Goal #3

• 90% of Title I Parent Survey responses are positive towards the Title I program in the areas of student services provided, communication, and opportunities for family/parent support.

Program Goal #3 Results

• Goal Met: 97% of parents responded positively on the Spring Title I Survey- “The

Title I Program is Helpful/Extremely Helpful to my Child.”

District: 97% (73/75)

Program Goal #3 Results

• 53% of Title I parents completed the survey:

• 71% for Crest (24/34)*• 34% for Heights (14/41)*• 77% for Ridge (30/39)*• 30% for View (9/30)*

 • System Total: 53% (77/144)

Program Goal #3 Results

Other Parent Survey responses included:• In what ways has the Title I program helped your child? Mark all that

apply.• My child can use decoding skills to figure out unknown words.

• (66/75 = 88%)• My child can understand what they read.

• (55/75 = 73%)• My child has moved from word-by-word reading to reading in phrases and chunks.

• (55/75 = 76%)• I notice my child’s vocabulary is expanding.

• (40/75 = 53%)• What changes have you seen in your child’s confidence about reading and

school? • My child picks up and reads books independently.

• (57/75 = 76%)• My child reads from a variety of books with a broad range of topics.

• (36/75 = 48%)

Parent Advisory Council MeetingMay 27, 2014

Parent Policy/Compact Feedback:• Compact (no change): • More feedback throughout the year• Mini workshops for parents

• Parent Policy (no change):• Communication-technology (e-mail), PTC-meet, data

binders, goal setting in initial meeting (Sept.-Nov.), shared prompts for learners,

Parent Advisory Council MeetingMay 27, 2014

Parent Involvement Ideas:• More feedback throughout the year• Communication-technology (e-mail), PTC-meet,

data binders, goal setting in initial meeting (Sept.-Nov.), shared prompts for learners

• Mini workshops for parents• Target goals for Title I students• Surveys-Paper/Electronically

Parent Advisory Council MeetingMay 27, 2014

Ideas to Improve our Title I Program:• Virtual Classroom as a support mechanism to continue

working with 3rd grade and up (parents) • We need additional supports for 3rd-4th grade (parents)• Restructure Core (staff group), system alignment between

classrooms and interventionist (staff group)• Title I groups in the classrooms rather than pull out• Increasing interventionist FTEs (staff group)• Utilize Data Teams process to collectively communicate

standards/strategies (staff group)• Change role of strategist (staff group)

Future Considerations

1. Implications for new FAST Assessments (State Literacy Assessments) for all elementary schools in the 2014-15 school year

2. Considerations regarding number of students on Title I Teachers’ rosters

3. Consider additional FTS for interventions4. Additional Support for Title I students

through Multi-Tiered Systems od Support/Response to Intervention (MTSS/RTI)

Questions???