Winsor Learning provides its clients with a plan to assist in the goal of increasing student achievement in literacy. Winsor Learning clients having the most success increasing achievement with struggling students are taking advantage of the expertise of Winsor Learning trainers and coaches. Our unique training program allows educators to make use of a short, intense training session and immediately start working with their students. This introductory training gives teachers hands-on use of the materials, practical strategies to use with struggling students and how to use the instructional materials to apply these strategies in the classroom. On-going training continues from there. Winsor Learning experts visit educators in their classrooms to provide advice and coaching to optimize the use of the instructional materials.
The materials and training together enable teachers to correctly identify and deliver effective intervention to students and all level of achievement. The goal is for teachers to gain practical knowledge of how to apply intervention with the right student at the right level. Educators are also shown how to use progress monitoring tools to guide intervention.
Our consulting services support the Response to Intervention (RTI) process at the following levels:
District Level: Our consultants gather information about current programs within the District, than assist administrators with creating and communicating an RTI plan with all stakeholders and setting attainable goals for the year.
School Level: Our services focus on implementation, replication and supervision of RTI at the school level. We are involved in coordinating resources and managing logistics for a measurable outcome.
Teacher Level: Our consultants provide coaching sessions both one-on-one and small group with classroom teachers, tutors and literacy coaches to assist with translating RTI research into practice that can be used in the classroom.
Program effectiveness improves when district leaders and administrators vocally commit to improvement of reading instruction, promote the use of science-based reading research practices, set appropriate goals, and provide the resources necessary to ensure that students make adequate progress. Winsor Learning experts assist administrators communicate and implement these objectives in their schools. One effective way to do so is to schedule workshops for schools and districts.
Analysis Workshops
Assessment Design: Understanding assessments and their use is critical to data driven reform. We can help analyze your assessment needs and make recommendations that meet the goals of your literacy plan.
Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) Training: Winsor Learning offers training in the most popular CBM data management systems. In this workshop our experts show instructors: 1) how to use these tools for proper screening, benchmarking and progress monitoring; 2) how to administer CBM’s to get reliable data; 3) how to effectively administer tests to students.
Managing the Assessment Process: Our consultants help clients use their Curriculum-Based Measurement tools effectively so data is accurate and helps drive instruction. This workshop informs administrators and literacy coaches how to plan for the assessment process, from determining the assessment model and scheduling to choosing assessment management systems and summarizing reports.
Screening Data Analysis: Our clients rely on Winsor Learning experts to enter student data, create necessary reports, analyze data, and provide student grouping advice that leads to better instructional decisions. This workshop helps instructors analyze screening data, group students by skill set, and design instructional plans to meet student needs.
Planning Workshops
Intervention Design: Setting goals for the literacy program, using the data to identify which students to serve and allocating resources for implementation. Subjects include: how to use personnel, time, curriculum and assessments to meet the needs of your students. These workshops are designed for literacy coaches and administration.
Communicating the Plan: Student success depends upon clear communication of the plan to all stakeholders. Winsor consultants will share insight into how data is informing and guiding student instruction, and how the intervention plan will respond to student needs, and then create a concise presentation to inform all users.
The Student Success Model
Using Data to Drive Instructional Decisions: A Four Step Student Success Model (PDF).
Implementation Training
Installation: The Winsor Learning Installation allows educators to make use of a short, intense training session and immediately start working with their students. This introductory training (fig. 1) gives teachers hands-on use of the materials, practical strategies to use with struggling students and how to use the instructional materials to apply these strategies in the classroom. This workshop is an introduction to the Multisensory Teaching Methodology and a detailed look at the implementation of Sonday System Reading Intervention Program.
Instructional Materials & Product Installation
Let’s Play Learn® – Early Childhood Program for Early Reading
Sonday System 1® – Beginning Reading and Intervention
Sonday System 2®– Intermediate Reading and Intervention
Set-Up Day: The Set-Up Day follows the installation. A Winsor Learning training expert works in the classroom with identified learner groups and the trained teacher to ensure successful transition and implementation.
Ongoing Coaching: Ongoing training continues after Installation. Winsor Learning experts visit educators in their classrooms to provide advice and coaching to optimize the use of the instructional materials. A Winsor Learning Coach visits each school to help answer teacher questions and model teaching methods. In-Class or Group coaching sessions ensure higher success rate for program implementation (1 day/6 hours). Coaching can be delivered in groups or in-class.
Shoulder-to-Shoulder Coaching: Districts producing a high level of student success are providing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching for teachers to reinforce the use of the instructional materials. To be most effective, each session should be approximately four weeks apart.
Group Coaching: All trainees meet with a Winsor Learning coach for teacher-to-teacher practicum with Winsor supervision and implementation modeling, teacher-to-student practicum with Winsor supervision and a question and answer session to debrief and address specific student situations. The day also includes discussion about using data analysis to drive instruction.
This series of workshops bridges the gap between what is being taught and
why it needs to be taught:
Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Workshop
Fluency Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop
Comprehension Workshop
Replication of Program (Train the Trainer): To assure continuity of successful programs, site-based staff must be able to maintain the training and professional development. Winsor Learning knows the reality of budget, resources, time and teacher turnover so there is a plan in place to enable districts to replicate this program. During follow-up in-class coaching and in regular training workshops, lead teachers may have the opportunity to shadow Winsor Learning experts to observe how a coach interacts with teachers, demonstrates strategies with students, and provides corrective, non-intimidating guidance to build teacher knowledge and confidence. It should also be noted here that the video tutor that accompanies each instructional package offers correct sound production, student demonstration and teaching strategies for the teacher/user to see and hear before working with the students.
Data Analysis and Reporting: Each site/school is serviced with a minimum of three Data Analysis visits by a Winsor Learning expert. These sessions help administrators use data and online tools to make instructional decisions and allocate resources to promote success.
SearchlightTM: An online intervention monitoring software created for educators who are gathering data on student performance and have multiple schools to administer. By implementing these tools it is easier to make adjustments in grouping and instruction, increasing student achievement and freeing up valuable teaching time.
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Evaluation Workshops
Grade Level Meetings: Winsor Learning experts facilitate meetings between classroom teachers, tutors and literacy coaches with data on the table to interpret student mid-year data and make decisions about re-grouping and intervention instruction.
Tutor Observation: Along with the site literacy coach, Winsor Learning experts observe intervention instruction and provide reports of program fidelity.
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