CONTRACT SERVICES
- Title I Service Provider
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Title I Service Provider Program
Summaries and Web Sites - Learning Exchange Primary/Elementary Small Group Model
- Professional Development for Teachers of Title I Students
- Parent Involvement Activities Counseling
- Milwaukee Non-Public School Title Program
- Learning Exchange Advantages to Success
Title I Service Provider - download section pdf / download complete pdf
When choosing Learning Exchange as your Title I service provider, you can expect...
- Learning Exchange School Consultation & Collaborative Work Process
- High Quality & Effective Title I Service
- Local Ownership
- Involvement in the Community
- Responsiveness (Timely, Accurate, Reliable)
- Value Added Services
Learning Exchange School Consultation & Collaborative Work Process
| • Strategic Planning | • Student Motivation |
| • Thorough Diagnostic Testing | • Quality Control |
| • Targeted Skills Instruction | • Conferences, Consultation and Collaboration |
| • Certified Teachers | • Written Reports and Assessments |
High Quality & Effective Title I Services
| • Instruction | • Parent Involvement |
| • Professional Development | • Counseling |
Local Ownership Involvement in the Community
| • Networking | • Resource Development |
| • Connection, Engagement and Linkage to the Community | |
Responsiveness
| • Timely | • Accurate |
| • Reliable |
Value Added Services
| • Leadership Development | • Strategic Planning |
| • Team Building | |
| • Individual and Organizational Productivity Development | |
| • Building Family Recruitment and Engagement Program | |
Title I Service Provider Program
Summaries and Web Sites
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Learning Exchange Small Group Model - download section pdf / download complete pdf
Small Group Basic Skills Model for Primary and Elementary Students
Learning Exchange utilizes a proven research-based program with exceptional results in both reading and math. The program content is skill-based and is in alignment with Wisconsin Model Performance Standards in both reading and math. Learning Exchange also aligns with the five crucial early reading skills identified by the Reading First initiative. LE employs a basic skills approach to the development of math abilities. Concepts of numeration and operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percent are organized into 40 sub-skills that students practice and work toward mastery. Problem-solving applications of these sub-skills are part of the small group math program.
Both Reading and Math Small group instruction follows the above instructional model. Students sharing similar characteristics determine grouping. Diagnostic tests determine common areas of concern that form goal-oriented instructional plans for each group.
Each session focuses on at least three common skill areas with breakout activities that address individual needs. Students benefit from group interaction as well as individualized opportunities for practice. Instruction is in a maximum 6:1 ratio with a certified teacher
for a minimum of 120 minutes per/week. Multisensory materials and activities are
chosen based on student needs. Evaluation is ongoing.
Middle and High School Students - download section pdf / download complete pdf
Small Group Basics-Plus Skills Model
This model is designed for Middle and High School students. The foundation of this model is the same as the Basic Skills model described earlier that focuses on developing competency in the basics of reading and math, but also weaves a package of skills that are different from those needed ten to twenty years ago to help students now succeed in school and life in the 21st Century.
Title I Middle School / High School Basics-Plus Program - download section pdf / download complete pdf
Strategic Reading / Learning / Study Skills
GOALS
Build Student Achievement in Middle and High School Curriculum and form collaborative networks among school personnel.
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
- Study Skills
- Build learning teams in thematic units
- Explore, practice, discuss, evaluate
- Strategic Reading / Learning / Study Strategies
- Basic skills review
- Vocabulary Development
- Strategies tailored to content area subjects and literary genre
- Practical Tools
- Evaluation
- Specific intervention activities
- Identified by GRADE diagnostic testing
- Correlated reinforcement using GRADE Resource library materials
- Title I growth measurement – pre/post GRADE tests
- Small Group Math Program: Middle and High School Students
- This program focuses on Basic MS/HS Math Skill Development
- Critical Math learning, thinking and problem solving skills
- Incorporates Financial Literacy and Consumer skills
Professional Development for Teachers of Title I Students - download section pdf / download complete pdf
Initial strategic planning will identify topics and schedules for staff professional development. Learning Exchange collaborates with schools to design T-I Professional Development that will help teachers build student achievement in their classrooms through PD that has depth, breadth and follow-through in the classroom. In addition to T-I PD planning, Learning Exchange will also work with interested schools to design and implement a Title II PD plan. Through Leaning Exchange Professional Development, T-I teachers have had the opportunity to:
- Participate in customized PD aligned with their school's vision and mission.
- Take a wide variety of graduate/undergraduate credit or non credit courses through Sally Ride Academy/Cardinal Stritch.
- Attend T-I oriented conferences around the city and state.
- Attend workshops and courses to learn Strategies to help students with ESL and Special Education needs. The following are some examples of Learning Exchange sponsored Professional Development opportunities for Title I classroom teachers:
- A variety of Classroom Management Strategy courses
- Best Practices for Teaching Elementary Math courses
- Standardized Test Prep Strategies for Struggling Learners
- Classroom Practices that Reinforce Vocabulary and Comprehension Skills for the
Struggling Learner - Differentiated Instruction with Emphasis on the Child with Special Needs
- Differentiation Strategies for Meeting the Needs of a Wide Range of Learners
- Discipline and Learning With Love and Logic
- Early Interventions in Mathematics
- Direct Instruction Training for Classroom Teachers - focused on struggling learners, particularly ELL
- Six Traits for the Struggling Learner
- Receive Classroom Coaching support
- Take T-I oriented on-line courses
- Attend workshops on Ruby Payne's Framework For Understanding Poverty
Parent Involvement Activities - download section pdf / download complete pdf
Initial strategic planning will include ways to include Title I services in overall school efforts to include parents. The following are some of Learning Exchange sponsored Parent Involvement activities:
- Open Houses, Conferences, Parent visits
- Sally Ride Parent Series - Discipline and Learning with Love and Logic, Family Science Night
- Parent ESL classes
- Participation in organized school/parent activities and award ceremonies
- Monthly parent newsletters w/activities to work on at home with their children
- Models for annual family recruitment and engagement planning
- Sight Vocabulary Building activity for parents to use at home
- Parent Anger Management Seminars - New Concepts
- Proactive Career planning for Today's MS/High School student
- Skill based review/practice packets given to T-I parents to work on over the summer with their children
- T-I Parent Coffees - Parents sharing on ways to help their students at home
- Basic computer classes for T-I parents
- Title I Awards Dinner held at the end of the year
In addition to Instructional services, Professional Development and Parent Involvement activities, Learning Exchange offers interested schools another important service for students, teachers and parents:
COUNSELING
Learning Exchange partners with S.E.T. Ministries to offer several models of T-I counseling to accommodate a school's needs and allocation amount:
- Four full days a week (replaces some instruction time)
- Two full days (replaces or complements some instruction time)
- One full day / 2 half days (complements instruction time)
- Several hours per week (complements instruction)
LE TITLE I COUNSELORS ARE EITHER LICENSED SOCIAL WORKERS OR LICENSED SCHOOL COUNSELORS
S.E.T. Ministries can offer high quality Professional Development and Parent Involvement activities for your teachers and parents using Title I and/or Title II funds.
Learning Exchange Advantages to Success! - download section pdf / download complete pdf
Strategic Planning with School Leadership
Learning Exchange will work with school personnel to:
- Identify students in greatest need.
- Align Title I activities (student instruction, professional development, parent involvement activities and other events, like counseling) with the school calendar.
- Align communication and consultation systems with the requirements of school curriculum, teachers and parents.
- Work with school Leadership on strategic planning, annual family recruiting and engagement, school resource deployment, building meeting productivity and building a team based environment.
Thorough Diagnostic Testing
- Reading diagnostic testing includes a 1:1 assessment of phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
- Math diagnostic testing includes a 1:1 assessment of basic math skills: numeration, place value, basic operations of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions. Math problem solving and communication of math concepts are also assessed.
- Because of time restrictions, MS/HS students will be exposed to 21st Century Basics-Plus Learning Skills but mastery is not expected.
Targeted Skills Instruction
- Learning Exchange works with children to improve skills at whatever level they are at in order for them to build competence and confidence in their abilities.
- Program design is aimed to meet small-group instructional goals.
- Some multi-sensory materials are included to maximize opportunities and address individual learning styles.
- A minimum of 120 minutes of instruction is scheduled weekly for small-group instruction.
- The student/teacher ratio for the small group model, maximum 6:1.
Certified Teachers
Learning Exchange hires only certified teachers who have a proven background of experience.
Motivation
A generous supply of praise and certificates of achievement are an essential part of our program.
Quality Control
- Student group plans are evaluated on a daily basis.
- Supervisory personnel monitor instructional systems.
- Regular visits by the Directors of In-School Services are conducted throughout the school year to assure quality control of all aspects in our Title I services.
Conferences and Consultations
Learning Exchange participates in all scheduled parent conferences and arranges other appointments upon request. Conferences with teachers are on a scheduled basis or by appointment about testing, student programs and classroom connections. Communications are face-to-face, by phone, by email, or in print. Home visits to meet with parents are done at a few schools by the T-I Licensed Social worker. Consultations can be scheduled or conducted as a need arises.
Written Reports and Assessments
As part of on-going communications with administration, teachers, and parents, Learning Exchange provides:
- Individual student reports of diagnostic testing
- Individual quarterly instructional progress reports
- Mid-term reports of all Learning Exchange T-I services
- End-term summary reports of all Learning Exchange T-I services
Milwaukee Non-Public School Title Program
This Nonpublic School website is designed to facilitate consultation under both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known in its latest reauthorization as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) and to provide information about the ESEA and IDEIA programs in general and about Milwaukee Public School (MPS) programs in particular.
click here to visit site - (you will be directed away from the Learning Exchange site)