Insights Alberta - Agenda - The Learning Bar

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OurSCHOOL Pre-Survey Strategy Session
OurSCHOOL Data Deep Dive
OurSCHOOL Assessing Your Impact
OurSCHOOL Building a Thriving School
OurSCHOOL Parent Survey Debrief
OurSCHOOL Teacher Survey Debrief
OurSCHOOL Data Deep Dive for School Teams
EYE-TA Data Deep Dive for Districts

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Make literacy your bottom line

Efficient reading instruction is at the center of community transformation, and children’s future opportunities. Learn about the financial benefits of reading success, or access resources to understand the literacy needs of your community now.

How much could grade 3 reading success save you in the next

Education system costs

What do you pay annually for reading interventions and interventionists in grades 3+ ?

How much does an additional year of schooling cost per student?

How many students take an additional year or more to complete high school?

Community costs

How many students drop out of school each year?*

EFFICIENT READING INSTRUCTION ADDS UP

* 20,000$ per student - Estimate based on Canadian Council on Learning (2009). No “drop” in the bucket: the high costs of dropping out.

The Confident Learners program provides a rigorous curriculum aligned with teaching activities, assessments and quality professional development. The program covers all pre-literacy to literacy skills required to achieve reading fluency by the end of Grade 3. The foundational model of literacy and language development that the Confident Learners Literacy Program uses, draws upon is the widely recognized and validated ‘Simple View of Reading.’ This model has two critical and complementary dimensions:

Code-related skill: Concepts about print, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and reading fluency (decoding and spelling, recognition and spelling, speed and prosody).

Language skill: Vocabulary, receptive language, expressive language, and written language.

Children must master both to read proficiently.

Click to view a Code-Related Instructional Activity or Language-Related Instructional Activity.

Measures versus single questions – what’s the big deal?

The OurSCHOOL survey only uses multi-question measures, as opposed to single questions as found on most other school surveys. When developing our measures, we take steps to ensure they are the most representative of the construct under investigation. We begin with the broad construct (or domain) – for example, the concept of Anxiety – then we conduct a thorough examination of the existing literature and consult with subject matter experts.

A bank of questions is then developed that are intended to reflect the construct and are rigorously tested. We know that measures are more reliable when they include a number of well-formulated questions as this allows us to more accurately differentiate between students.

8:00-8:45	Registration / Check in / Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Welcome
9:00-10:00	Educational Prosperity in Canadian Schools: What We Have Learned So Far Dr. Doug Willms, President & Founder, The Learning Bar
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:15	System Leadership: Finding Possibility and Purpose Through Data Joanne Pitman, Superintendent, School Improvement, Calgary Board of Education
11:15-11:30	Break
11:30-12:15	Knowing Your Impact as an Instructional Leader Karen Power, Leadership Development Consultant, The Learning Bar
12:15-1:15	Lunch
1:15-2:00	Building Leadership Capacity Jonathan Kaiswatum, Director of Education, Tsuut’ina Nation
2:00-2:15	Break
2:15-3:00	Breaking Habits and Building Trust: Humanizing the process of gathering and using data for school improvement Andrea Sarson, System Principal, Calgary Board of Education
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-4:00	Reframing the Conversation Around Equity to Bridge the Early Literacy Gap Neil Debassige, Indigenous Education Consultant, The Learning Bar
4:00 – 4:15	Close

Insights Alberta – Agenda

Leveraging data to support equity and well-being

Agenda

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Make literacy your bottom line

Efficient reading instruction is at the center of community transformation, and children’s future opportunities. Learn about the financial benefits of reading success, or access resources to understand the literacy needs of your community now.

Click here for a more detailed breakdown of how are measures are constructed.