Students execute transitions, routines, and procedures in an orderly and efcient manner. Students are engaged in the work of the lesson from start to fnish; there is a sense of urgency about how time is used. Students and their teacher(s) demonstrate a joy for learning through positive relationships and strong classroom culture.
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(Adapted from TNTP Core Teaching Rubric (CC BY-NC 4.0), 2017)
Appendix 8. Site Visit Memo, Observation Insight Report Summary Dear School District Educators,
In early March, researchers from Learning Experience Design (LXD) Research & Consulting traveled to the school district to observe supplemental phonics curriculum in action. Partnering with Scholastic RISE, researchers Isabella Ilievski and Destiny Riley observed fve elementary schools who have implemented this Tier 2 phonics and reading intervention program this school year. Greeted warmly at each campus, the fve RISE schools Destiny and Isabella observed showed a high level of fdelity to the program, strong organizational implementation, and the combination of expertise and warmth it takes to build lifelong readers through interventions. Each classroom featured detailed anchor charts to support student thinking and manipulatives to engage kinesthetic learners with supplies ranging from whiteboards to magnetic letters. Destiny and Isabella were delighted by the strong emphasis on both reading and writing they saw in each room. Whether students were exploring new fction texts, learning about nonfction text features, or collecting information from a text to use in a future writing assignment, these groups were highly engaged in the day’s learning. As both researchers were formerly in classroom roles themselves, they understood the work it takes to grow these learners in phonemic awareness, writing ability, and overall reading confdence; the magic they saw between educators and students in these classrooms demonstrates that the latter is well on their way to achieving success in reading and writing. LXD Research would like to thank the district for their hospitality in allowing us to observe their incredible educators during our time in Florida. We look forward to providing our Scholastic RISE efcacy report to the district in Summer 2023.
Our best wishes for a smooth end of the school year,
LXD Research -RISE and RISE UP Winter 2022-Spring 2023 Report
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