Special Education Literacy Agreement Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA) This agreement between Highland Commun. scwoot Distict and GWABA sateen Ap BIZ 0 Ain at Schools) involved Baw d Ee (OORT Se PEGOEOE LOO GES IEG SSOTE DOES LOD ERATOR E YOO ELE OEE DERE EE LEE E EEE Purpose of the project: A highly skilled AEA consultant will assist teachers in working with students who have reading challenges in order to accelerate the reading proficiency of students receiving special education services. Intended Outcomes: + To.coach teachers, staff members, and/or parents on how to use the tools needed in order to design quality reading instruction for students who have reading challenges. + Decpen understanding of how to accelerate student leaning in the area of reading achievement. + Deepen understanding and implementation of how to use diagnostic assessment and processes to pinpoint and prioritize skill areas for explicit instruction, + Deepen understanding of how to write effective reading goals + Deepen understanding of how to use progress monitoring tools to monitor the effect of instruction on student performance. + Deepen understanding of how to collaborate with other professionals to provide coherent, accelerated instruction to students who have reading goals on their IEPs. + Provide job embedded professional learning among LEA and AEA staff while working with students with intensive reading challenges in order to build capacity to effectively meet the needs of these students (capacity building and sustainability of effort) LOEOEPEGSDEGEDELELE LOO DED IDET EG SESE EL EDEL EDEL ELDER EEE E GOED District/Building commitment: Ensure active principal involvement, Name(s): Ey-ie Ewa, y, Requite participation of identified instructional staff. Provide opportunities for job-embedded professional learning. Ensure summative student achievernent data/behavioral data is collected, organized & analyzed, Require special education teachers to implement learned strategies/interventions with targeted students, Require special education teachers to collect and analyze formative student achievement data on targeted students. Provide support for teachers of special needs students to modify their current responsibilities/schedules to align with the responsibilities and commitments that accompany this work, Allow access to students with IEPs, o co cococo‘The following teachers in Lerrersy te Elen then School District are participating in the Grant Wood AEA Special Education Literacy Project effective Ass 70/3 from Tune JOA. ‘A copy of the Special Education Literacy Agreement has been provi Building teacher(s) wherenas Atari Building teacher(s) Building teacher(s) GWAEA Staff Member(s): Bt fsa Grant Wood Project Manager: Lo va 24/5 District Superintendent or Superintendent Representative: Signature Date‘The following teachers in High and Comin. schoot District are participating inthe Grant Wood AEA Special Educatton Literacy Project effective from __Ay i B6yd to _ June Aly A copy of the Special Education Literacy Agreethent has been provided. ) Building teacher(s) J Ls Building teacher(s) Building teacher(s) GWAEA Staff Member(s): Grant Wood Projeet Manager: District Superintendent or Superintendent Representative:(please see back side) June, 2011 GWAEA Commitment: a professional learning for the purpose of releasing the respor Provide consultant to actively guide and support the special education teacher through job embedded y for effective reading/literacy instruction to LEA staff members. a Provide consultant to mentor and coach special education teachers and/or parents of identified students, receiving special education services in the area of reading for the purpose of accelerating the reading achievement of students with IEPs. a o oo oo Align resources (people, time) to provide the service, To maintain the fidelity of the project, our ‘number of teachers supported by each team member will be an ongoing consideration, Resources/materials recommended will be researched-based and best practices will be suggested. Consultants will support special education teachers in using materials readily available to them if appropriate. Provide Regional Administrator to serve as liaison to the district/building for this work. Gather and analyze data regarding impact of job embedded initiative on teaching practice and student learning. Ongoing - Work with LEA teachers and administrators to develop a plan for sustaining the changes in instruction, assessment, and content with more limited support, resources and accountability provided by GWAEA consultants Authorized district representative: ¢ LZ Cid it Simmaare hie GWAEA Regional Administrator: Sigua GWAEA Staff Member(s): pees q/5 } 12 Sigmaire Dapccaaeceeacae Building teacher(s) e J qi6lt Simatare Date Building teacher(s) Brenda K Ban q- 6 Apieed Building teacher(s) Zz dan Sfiofi3 Lencyn rrvclletien 9 fho] (3 . Dae