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TIERED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

TIERED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
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WHAT IS A TIERED MODEL?

WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY? WHAT IS A TIERED MODEL?


Good professional learning doesn't just happen. It takes planning, prioritizing, job embedded training, and on-going support. This blog is intended to help school teams streamline the process. Let's start with the Tiered Model.


“Continuous school improvement depends on high-quality professional learning that focuses on research-based strategies. Professional learning is the primary means that schools and systems utilize to strengthen the development and performance of educators at all levels in order to improve student learning and achievement.” DOE Website


The Tiered Model will be familiar to you if you have worked with RtI and the Pyramid of Intervention. Professional Learning fits into the same tiered progression.


Tier I is what you provide for everyone. Tier I starts at the system level. These are things that all LCSS educators will be offered.


Tier II is differentiated support. Tier II is not for everyone and is based on your data analysis. Tier II may be offered through the system or specifically at your school.


Tier III is intense, specific support for areas of critical need. Tier III support could happen at the system level, but will surely happen at the school level.


In order to make data-driven decisions about professional learning, it is important to understand the research and the process.


The blog pages below will allow you to learn more about this research-based format.


CCRPI INDICATORS: OCTOBER 2013

Download the CCRPI Indicators (7 pages) and have them available along with your school's CCRPI report. Remember, CCRPI is a good starting point. You will plan to look at other too.
2013 ccrpi indicators 10.11.13 from jwalts

The Link between CCRPI and Professional Learning

CCRPI is a snapshot of how your team is doing.  It is important that you bookend your decisions about professional learning with a thorough data analysis.  Prior to making decisions, look at the existing data.  Following teacher training, look at the same data to determine if there has been significant progress made.  This is all part of the PLAN ~ DO ~ CHECK ~ ACT process.  When you look conduct your follow-up data analysis, you will decide whether to accept it as it is, adapt it to improve it, or abandon it entirely.

CCRPI is a great place to begin digging into your data.  It will point out areas of need.  Included in this handbook is a current copy of the CCRPI Indicators. They give you a starting point. 

Look first at the section for CONTENT MASTERY.  Jot down anything that jumps out at you as an area of need. You may notice that your science and social studies achievement scores are low. This tells you it is time to delve deeper and determine “WHY?”.

Next, look at the READINESS INDICATORS. Are your writing scores where they need to be?  If not, start talking to staff to determine why.  What about your Lexile scores?  If they are low, you know right away that a Tier II training in reading fluently and for understanding should appear on your list of training opportunities for your ELA staff. 

Finally, look at the EXCEEDING THE BAR section of the report.  You may discover that your EL students are not scoring well on the ACCESS test.  This lets you know there should be a Tier III intervention in place for your EL teacher.


Keep in mind that CCRPI is only one indicator of your progress.  This is where you start your data analysis process.  There are many other indicators for you to examine as you dig deeper into the data.

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