Action Item
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Curriculum and Instruction
Action Item |
| DATE: | Tuesday, September 9, 2014 |
| TO: | School Board Members |
| FROM: | MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent |
| SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS | |
| Approve the Purchase of i-Ready Licenses, Ready Instructional Print Materials, and Professional Development from Curriculum Associates, LLC (Sole-Source Provider) (Curriculum and Instruction Division) | |
| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | |
| i-Ready and Ready are supplemental materials that provide a blended model of print materials and technology-delivered literacy assessment and instruction. The materials will be implemented in the 24 elementary extended reading time sites which are identified by the Florida Department of Education as being in the 300 lowest performing Florida elementary schools. The i-Ready program provides individualized adaptive online diagnostic assessment, progress-monitoring assessments, and automated differentiated online instruction. The program creates individualized instructional plans utilizing the Ready print materials. All materials in the blended model are aligned to the elementary Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS). Each of the 24 sites will receive for students in grades K-5 the i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction for Reading site licenses and the Ready Language Arts Florida Standards book. Every grade K-5 i-Ready/Ready teacher will receive a teacher resource book and individual access to the Tools for Instruction website that includes additional lessons aligned to the Language Arts Florida Standards. Professional development will include a school leadership kickoff session, onsite initial training sessions, onsite data/decision making training sessions, and onsite coaching and mentoring sessions every three to five weeks throughout the school year. The following elementary schools will be participating: Bryan, P.C., B. T. Washington, Clair Mel, Cleveland, Cypress Creek, DeSoto, Dunbar, Edison, James, Just, Kimbell, Lockhart, Miles, Mort, Oak Park, Potter, Reddick, Robles, Shaw, Sheehy, Sulphur Springs, Trapnell, West Tampa, and Witter.
Curriculum Associates, LLC is designated as sole-source and owns the copyright to all i-Ready licenses, training materials, and professional development. This purchase is exempt from the requesting competitive solicitations by the Florida Department of Education 6A.-1.012 Purchasing Policies (11) (b). |
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| STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES | |
| • Increase promotion rates at all grade levels and the percentage of high school graduates | |
| FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: Yes) | |
| Funds of $480,000 are available in the Comprehensive Reading Plan Grant, Project 4526. | |
| EVALUATION | |
| Review of Florida State Assessment Student Achievement Data which will be available the Summer 2015. | |
| SUBMITTED BY:
Barbara B. Hancock, Instructional Leadership Director, Elementary Lynn Dougherty-Underwood, Director, K-12 Literacy |
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| Wynne A. Tye | Gretchen Saunders | |
| Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction (813) 272-4221 |
Chief Business Officer (813) 272-4270 |
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| A 6.15 | ||
| Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20140909_640 (Board Meeting followed by Public Hearing) * Section A Item# 6.15 | ||