ACTION 100 RtI Accountability System
ACTION 100 is a 12-step Response to Intervention (RtI) school transformation model designed to aggressively transform school cultures for sustainable student achievement. This framework, built on the architecture of the Common Core Standards, jump-starts low-performing schools in their move toward accelerated and continuous reading improvement.
This system delivers these key benefits:
- Every K–2 student to grade level reading proficiency
- Every 3rd- through 8th-grade student to gain 30 points on state test
- Keyed to Common Core State Standards
12 Steps
- Principal Leadership
- Teacher Expertise
- Independent Reading Levels Determined
- Integrated Literacy Block
- Home Reading Routines
- Data Management
- Conferencing & Formative Assessment
- Direct Systematic Instruction Using CCSS Rubrics: Reading
- Direct Systematic Instruction Using CCSS Rubrics: Writing
- Small-Group Intervention
- Intensive One-to-One Intervention
- Reading and Writing in Social Studies and Science
1
Preparation
Principal Leadership
The principal is the instructional leader, taking personal responsibility for the grade-level reading success of every student.
Using the gradual release model, the principal provides the scaffolding needed to build teacher capacity.
2
Preparation
Teacher Expertise
Every teacher is an expert in the teaching of reading and writing, prepared to ensure that every student receives high-quality, research-based instruction.
3
Month 1
Independent Reading Levels Determined (100BC)
Every student is assessed to determine baseline reading proficiency level using Common Core State Standards for Language Arts. Levels are entered into SchoolPace™ Student Data Tracker.
4
Month 1
Integrated Literacy Block
30 minutes of structured independent reading is part of the literacy block every day. Students who are absent make up the reading time when they return.
5
Month 1
Home Reading Routines
30 minutes of supervised independent reading is part of the Home Reading Routine every night. Students who do not complete their home reading make it up during school time.
6
Month 2
Data Management
Action Plan Cards for every student reading below grade level are posted on the school RtI Data Wall and include the name of the adult responsible for progress. Student progress is monitored weekly by the RtI Collaborative Team.
- 4 Steps
- 1 hour a day
- 800 Steps
- 200 hours a year
7
Month 2
Conferencing and Formative Assessment
Teachers confer with individual students during independent reading. Teachers use the Common Core State Standards as a formative assessment framework, closely monitoring individual student reading progress, re-teaching where necessary.
8
Months 3 & 4
Direct Systematic Instruction: Reading
- Teachers model application of Common Core State Standards using shared reading, exemplar text, and rubrics.
- Students have guided practice with frequent checks for understanding.
- Students apply to independent reading.
- Teachers re-teach where necessary. Literacy Block
9
Months 3 & 4
Direct Systematic Instruction: Writing
- Teachers model application of Common Core State Standards using modeled writing, exemplar text, and rubrics.
- Students have guided practice with frequent checks for understanding.
- Students apply to independent writing.
- Teachers re-teach where necessary. Status of the Class
10
Months 5–10
Small-Group Intervention
Teachers gather students with similar needs into temporary small groups for targeted instruction. Below-level readers and writers receive more time and intensified instruction in small groups than on-level students.
11
Months 5–10
Intensive One-to-One Intervention
One-to-one expert coaching provides intensive instruction for students who are not making adequate progress.
Community support networks are tapped to bring additional resources to students, teachers, and families, ensuring all students are making adequate progress.
12
Months 5–10
Reading and Writing in Social Studies and Science
Student success systems are extended into content areas using informational text, where reading rigor and academic language demands increase substantially.
Teacher Handbook
The Teacher Handbook is a vital and comprehensive resource for any teacher using 100 Book Challenge. The handbook provides blackline masters, instructions for implementation of every aspect of the program, tips for addressing common concerns, detailed descriptions of the book leveling system, and materials to encourage parent participation. Spanish translations of many of the materials for students and parents are also included.
IRLA: Independent Reading Level Assessment Framework
Formative Assessment Built on the Common Core State Standards for Reading
A unified standard-based framework for student assessment, text leveling, curriculum, and instruction. The IRLA includes every Common Core State Standard for Reading, both in literature and informational text, as well as those Language standards which are key to reading success.
The IRLA allows educators to determine a student’s current level of reading proficiency, diagnose areas of strength and weakness, formulate an Action Plan for next steps, and track progress on a daily basis using books the student has chosen to read because he or she wants to read them.
SchoolPace
SchoolPace is a web-based student achievement dashboard that allows educators to monitor growth and performance in real-time. With SchoolPace, you’ll have out-of-the-box access to reports including:
- District Dashboards
- School Dashboards
- Classroom Dashboards
- Growth Reports
- Performance Reports Based on Custom District, School, and Grade-Level Targets
Reading Skills Cards
Identify what a student needs to know and be able to do at each reading level
Written in student and parent friendly language, the Reading Skills Cards travel between school and home daily providing guidelines for teachers, parents and students as to the skills and strategies (standards) that must be mastered at each level. Comprehension questions are keyed to the higher order thinking skills required by high stakes tests.
100 Book Challenge Smart Start modules include 250–340 cards reflecting the reading levels of your students.
On-Target Badge
Each 15 minutes of reading practice counts as one Step. Students are expected to read for 11 Steps a week, for a minimum of 400 Steps (100 hours) per year. Teachers, administrators, and office staff, wear the weekly target number of Reading Steps around their necks. This simple gesture makes it clear that every student in the school is expected to do enough reading practice every day to get good at it. It is soon very clear which students in the school are not getting enough reading practice in time to do something about it.
Conference Notebook
The Conference Notebook is the heart of the 100 Book Challenge standards-based formative assessment system. The teacher maintains a standards-based assessment/coaching guide appropriate to that student’s current level of reading proficiency. Teachers learn to assess, diagnose, and instruct each student using a standards-based formative assessment framework while the student reads books he or she has chosen and wants to read.
Student progress is monitored, coached, and documented as they increase their mastery of the reading standards required by state testing. All instruction is differentiated to match individual student needs and interests. Teachers learn to be diagnosticians, expert coaches, and reading friends to their students. The Conference Notebook supports both student and teacher learning through daily classroom practice.
Action 100 Professional Development
Action 100 includes 30 professional development sessions throughout the school year.
Step-by-Step Professional Development
- Principals learn to be instructional leaders.
- Teachers learn to be reading specialists.
- Parents learn to be home coaches.
- Students learn to be readers.
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