I3 Information SessionReading Recovery:

Scaling Up What WorksTeacher Leader Institute 2013

Thursday, June 13, 201312:40 – 1:00

Jerry D’Agostino Emily RodgersThe Ohio State University

How will the success of the i3 grant to scale-up Reading Recovery be defined?

• Grant goals will have been met

• Attrition (loss of teachers) will be low

• Each teacher = about 50 students

• The evaluation will be armor-proofed with large effects

Progress towards grant goalsProject

GoalTo Date Distance to

Go in 2 years

Teachers Trained 735 per year

3,675 in all

2,084 1,591

795 per year

RR children taught

88,200 26, 584 61,616

Other children taught

485, 10036 per

teacher

119, 628 207, 828

Recruitment and attritionAs of June 4, 2013…

2,084 Teachers (95% of 3rd year goal)

1,799 Active teachers

285 Teacher exits before MOA completed (14%)

2 Reasons for Attrition

• Personal or School-based

– Part time teachers moving to full time position

– Rotating the training (training all the staff)

Attrition is problematic

• Expertise increases with experience. There is a negative impact on overall outcomes when teachers leave the role after 1-2 years (D’Agostino, 2012).

• Part-time teachers increase the cost of RR–Part time teachers: 8 students a year–Full time teachers: 50 students a year

School Effectiveness as a Function of Average Years of Teacher RR Experience and

School Years with RR (D’Agostino, 2012)

1-15

-10

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Armor-Proofing the External Evaluation

• Effect sizes will be largest ever reported

• Achilles Heel:– Participation rate at 76%– Critics will say: “What schools did not participate?

Effect sizes may have been lower if they had stayed in”

Internal Audit Revealed:

• Participation rate after audit: 95% but 76% has to be reported for Year 2.

• List of schools in IDEC database incorrect– One school entered two times, two names– Teacher leader no longer with a school –

assessments sit unopened in school– A school no longer with Reading Recovery

How you can continue to help define the success of the i3 grant to scale-up

• Focus recruitment efforts on full-time teachers

• Help trainers update list of schools now (expect two waves of school lists to verify)

• Continue high level of participation in the external evaluation

Sharing Your i3 Stories

• Share your i3 story with each other! (10 minutes)

• Do you have a story to share? Send an email to rodgers.42@osu.edu

Sharing Recruitment Tools