HQIM/Core Program Implementation
Boost Your Teachers’ Confidence Implementing Curriculum
The selection of high-quality instructional material (HQIM) is one of the most impactful decisions a district can make. HILL For Literacy is your partner to ensure you make the most of your investment. We bring clarity to the selection process and build confidence in teachers and leaders using these new materials.
HQIM Implementation Goals
Our primary goals for HQIM Implementation are to support educators to:
- make judicious choices that align program components with data-informed student need
- align these HQIM choices across grade levels and vertically within schools
The HILL’s HQIM implementation support supplements and extends the initial training provided by publishers. Publishing companies often provide the “what” helping teachers know what the components are. The HILL provides the “Why” and “How” to align the materials with individual student needs.
Next, the HILL builds a scope of support in collaboration with district/school partners to focus on select components, materials and methodologies that tailor instruction to best match the program to the students. This achieves “fidelity with integrity.”
HQIM Implementation Structures
The HILL works with district and school leaders to develop tailored professional learning opportunities that meet their specific needs and challenges. We offer five essential structures designed to support the ongoing implementation of HQIM.
HQIM Leadership Collaborative Planning
We work collaboratively with district leaders to create a district-specific sequence of topics and design a learning path that meets the needs of the district and supports effective implementation.
HQIM Implementation-Coaches Meetings
Coaches Meetings provide coaches/ teacher leaders with training and tools to turnkey content to classroom teachers in their schools and provide ongoing on-site support.
HQIM Grade Level Implementation Meetings
HILL facilitators work with educators (or with a district/school coach in the ToT model) to engage directly with one focus topic per meeting determined through the Leadership Collaborative Planning process.
HQIM Direct Teacher Coaching
A HILL Facilitator works intensively with teachers to reflect on their practices, refine skills and proficiency with evidence-based strategies for teaching and learning, and set professional goals using their HQIM as the foundation.
HQIM/Core Program Self-Paced Implementation Series
The HILL’s HQIM/Core Literacy Program Implementation Series empowers educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to effectively implement HQIM, ensuring data-driven, aligned, and purposeful instructional practices that lead to improved student reading outcomes. See below for details.
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HQIM/Core Program Self-Paced Implementation Series
Our asynchronous implementation series is most beneficial to educators who have engaged in recent Science of Reading training because they will easily make connections between why an instructional practice is important, how the instructional practice is best utilized and which material(s) from the HQIM should be used to do this.
This course of study can be used as a framework to achieve “fidelity with integrity,” and is critical content and supplemental reference material for the HQIM implementation support discussed above. Our eight-session series may be used to drive sustainability of systems, structures, and processes when in person consultation services are inaccessible, internal expertise/leadership is unavailable, or when HQIM implementation is no longer a school- or district-wide focus.
Topics:
Microcourse 1: Guide for Literacy Leaders for Year 1 Program Implementation
Microcourse 2: Building and Utilizing a Pacing Guide
Microcourse 3: Whole Group/Small Group Template
Microcourse 4: Features of Effective Instruction: Foundational Skills Lesson
Microcourse 5: Instructional Routines in the Foundational Skills Block
Microcourse 6: Building Background and Vocabulary
Microcourse 7: Independent Student Work
Microcourse 8: Program Assessments
Microcourse 2 Sample
This sample includes a vignette that describes the benefits of using a pacing guide, followed by a description and visual example of the key components of an effective pacing guide.
Microcourse 5 Sample
This sample includes an introductory vignette of two teachers discussing the importance of routines, followed by an example of an embedded knowledge check.
Every time the teachers leave the session they are leaving with practical applications for their classroom. It takes the science of reading right into the science of learning.”
Kate Engledrum, ELA Program Leader, Trumbull Public Schools
This course clearly identified the how, what, and why it is important to create WG/SG templates when implementing a new core ELA program. This course would benefit any educator using a core program in their school.
Lisa Pietrzak, Molly Stark Elementary School
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