Cohort A Professional Development

Institutes on Beginning Reading (IBRs)

IBR I: Science of Beginning Reading and Student Assessments
(June 16-20, 2003)
  • Introduction to IBR and the Schoolwide Model
  • Evaluating Performance: Schoolwide Assessment of Student Performance
  • Core Instruction: What Are the Critical Components That Need to Be In Place to Reach Our Goals?
  • Instruction: Time, Scheduling and Grouping, Reading Acton Plans

IBR II: Enhancing Core Instruction (September 29-October 2, 2003)
  • Reviewing Assessment Results: Using Data to Improve Outcomes for Each Student
  • Enhancing the Core: Phonological Awareness
  • Enhancing the Core: Alphabetic Principle
  • Enhancing the Core: Fluency
  • Enhancing the Core: Vocabulary and Comprehension (K/1)
  • Enhancing the Core: Vocabulary (2/3)
  • Enhancing the Core: Comprehension (2/3)
  • Enhancing the Core to Support English Language Learners (K/1)
  • Enhancing the Core to Support English Language Learners (2/3)
  • Planning Core/Benchmark, Strategic, and Intensive Interventions from Fall to Winter
  • Overview of Advanced DIBELS Reports

IBR III: Differentiating Instruction Through Supplemental and Intervention Programs (February 2-3, 2004)
  • Projectwide Reading Results
  • Instructional Implications: Interpreting Student Performance Data
  • Review of Supplemental and Intervention Programs
  • S & I Breakout Session: Phonemic Awareness
  • S & I Breakout Session: Phonics
  • S & I Breakout Session: Fluency
  • S & I Breakout Session: Vocabulary
  • S & I Breakout Session: Comprehension
  • Planning Core/Benchmark, Strategic, and Intensive Interventions from Winter to Spring

IBR IV: Evaluation and Planning (Spring 2004)
  • Evaluating and Planning
  • Breakout Activity: Kindergarten
  • Breakout Activity: First Grade
  • Breakout Activity: Second Grade
  • Breakout Activity: Third Grade
  • PD Needs Assessment

IBR V: Various Sessions (October 4-5, 2004)
  • Aligning Reading Programs to Meet the Needs of All Students
     • Breakout Activity: Skills Trace (blank)
     • Breakout Activity: Scope & Sequence Analyses (blank)
     • Breakout Activity: Strategy & Instruction Analyses (blank)
  • Classroom Management Strategies for Reading Teachers (Chris Borgmeier)
     • Classroom Management Checklist
     • Teaching Behaviors and Social Skills Lesson Plan
  • Vocabulary Building & Oral Language Instruction: Helping English Language Learners and Students with Language Disabilities Learn to Read and Read to Learn (Lupina Vela)
     • Vocabulary Research
  • Automaticity and Fluency With the Code: Planning for Instruction (Sarah McDonagh)
     • Application Activity: Assessing AP with NWF Case Scenarios
     • Application Activity: Assessing Fluency with Connected Text with ORF Case Scenarios
     • Application Activity: Using Your Data to Plan Automaticity and Fluency Instruction
     • Application Activity: Identifying SBRR in Practice

IBR VI: Various Sessions (February 3-4, 2005)
  • Automaticity and Fluency With the Code: Planning for Instruction (Beth Ha rn)
     • Application Activity: Assessing AP with NWF Case Scenarios
     • Application Activity: Assessing Fluency with Connected Text with ORF Case Scenarios
     • Application Activity: Using Your Data to Plan Automaticity and Fluency Instruction
     • Application Activity: Identifying SBRR in Practice
  • Behavior and Classroom Management Strategies with Reading Teachers (Chris Borgmeier)
     • Classroom Management Checklist
     • Teaching Behaviors and Social Skills Lesson Plan
  • ELL Strategies (Lupina Vela)
     • Vocabulary Research
     • Language and Vocabulary
  • Reading Fluency (Marcy Stein)
     • Fluency Handouts

IBR VII: Evaluation and Planning (Spring 2005)
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Schoolwide Systems Worksheets (K-3)
  • How Do We Get There?
  • Grade Level Reading Action Plan
  • Professional Development Needs Planning Document

IBR VIII: Evaluating and Planning (Spring 2006)
  • What Are Our Goals?
  • How Are We Doing?
  • How Do We Get There?
  • Breakout Activity: Kindergarten
  • Breakout Activity: First Grade
  • Breakout Activity: Second Grade
  • Breakout Activity: Third Grade
  • Grade Level Action Planning Tool

IBR IX: Grade Level Team and Early Reading Team Meetings
(Spring 2007)
  • Spring 2007 IBR Preparation: Preparing for GLT and ERT Meetings
  • Grade Level Team Worksheet
  • Grade Level Team Activity Example
  • Early Reading Team Worksheet
  • Summary of Effectiveness Cheat Sheet
  • Summary of Effectiveness Highlighted Cheat Sheet
  • 2007-2008 School Action Plan
  • 2007-2008 Sample Action Plan: Middlebury Elementary
  • Spring 2007 IBR Materials List