Upcoming webcast: It's Time to Learn: Maximizing Instructional Time to Support Learning

The SIGNALS community on SRADirectInstruction.com is pleased to announce an upcoming complimentary webcast on Monday, October 26 2009 at 12:00PM and 5:00PM Eastern time.

Title: It's Time to Learn: Maximizing Instructional Time to Support Learning (click to register)
Time and Date: Monday, October 26, 2009. 12PM and 5PM Eastern
Presented by: Ed Schaefer and Dr. Molly Blakely of Educational Resources, Inc.
Topics addressed include:
- How time is spent in typical schools vs. effective schools and classrooms.
- How Direct Instruction programs support the efficient use of each minute of classroom time.
- How classroom coaching helps maximize the time spent learning.

A brief Question and Answer session with the presenters will immediately follow this presentation.

This webcast will be recorded and archived on the Signals Webinars page on SRADirectInstruction.com.

For more information about this event please contact Ed Schaefer of Educational Resources, Inc.

To register for this event now, click here.

Bronx Schools to Expand Use of SRA Reading Mastery

In the 2008-2009 school year the Bronx, NY Public School 396 (PS 396) ran a pilot of Reading Mastery - a direct instruction reading intervention program published by SRA/McGraw-Hill. After seeing New York English Language Arts (ELA) test scores jump over 50% for groups using the program, PS 396 is expanding Reading Mastery to include grades K-1 in addition to the pilot groups started in grades 2-4.

PS 396 principal Lawrence Wright and other school officials are exteremely optimistic about the impact direct instruction programs such as Reading Mastery have had so far on struggling readers.

One teacher using the program stated:

"You have given us a gift. I'm a third grade teacher and when six struggling students who couldn't get past level K sail into the first and second grade reading levels, I've been given a gift."

Source: Yahoo Finance article, August 19, 2009

The incorporation of Reading Mastery Signature Edition into the PS 396 curricula provides the school with a proven solution for reading/language arts Response to Intervention (RtI).

- View the complete report of the PS 396 pilot of Reading Mastery (.pdf)
- More about the direct instruction teaching method
- More information about PS 396

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