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In spring 2020, the Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) administered an end-of-year survey to the 38 SDP Reading Specialists. ORE received 34 completed surveys (a response rate of 89%), and the surveys included 268 open-ended comments. This 17-page brief provides an overview of findings, including representative open-ended comments, from that survey.
In 2019-20, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) implemented the QTEL initiative with 115 teachers in grades 6-12 from 29 SDP schools. This 45-page report reviews all components of SDP’s QTEL implementation in 2019-20.
The data included in this 21-page brief are a system-level summary of school performance according to the modified 2019-20 End-of-Year Reports.
This 38-page report examines the literacy performance of K-3 students receiving the T3 Teach Plus intervention prior to implementation (2016-17) and two years after implementation (2018-19). It also compares the performance of students in T3 schools to that of students in matched comparison schools.
This slide deck outlines the perceptions and experiences of ESOL teachers and their utilization and satisfaction with SDP’s collaborative English Language Development (ELD) model of instruction.
This six-page brief reviews feedback collected from a survey about digital learning administered to non-instructional school-based staff.
The final evaluation report on Academic Parent-Teacher Teams, a family engagement program aimed at addressing family-school partnerships by improving parent-teacher conferences in a way that expands collaboration between school and home.
This report focuses primarily on the implementation and outcomes of the TIB program at the two schools who participated in the program for both implementation years.
During summer 2020, SDP offered a variety of online programs to support student learning. This report summarizes findings from an evaluation of four offerings: Summer Opportunity for Academic Review (SOAR), English Learner Summer Program for Newcomers (ELSP), Extended School Year (ESY), and Credit Recovery.
A short summary of research that supports shifts in SDP’s revised early literacy framework (PreK-Grade 3).