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June 18, 2024 Board Meeting
Agenda Item 6.

Title
APPROVAL OF THE PURCHASE OF COMMONLIT 360 ESSENTIALS PRO PLUS FOR GRADES 6-8

Description

CommonLit 360 Essentials Pro Plus is used to provide high interest engaging text to our striving readers with on grade level text. Teachers can scaffold and provide the “just right” amount of productive struggle to accelerate growth in comprehension and vocabulary while building reading stamina.

 

Common Assessments allow for progress monitoring across all middle schools and guide professional learning needed, including how/when to release/adjust scaffolds leading to independent readers.



Gap Analysis

Struggling readers in grades 6-8 require targeted intervention and curriculum to support their learning needs through an Intensive Reading intervention course. The CommonLit 360 curriculum is organized into a coherent and logical scope and sequence, ensuring that each grade level builds upon prior knowledge and skills. Divided into units focusing on a specific topic or theme relevant to student’s lives and experiences, the curriculum builds teacher and student proficiency and fluency through high-leverage, repeatable reading structures and routines. Each Lesson is associated with the reading and analysis of a selection of text and includes questions and tasks to support students in engaging deeply with the text and unit content. Additionally, CommonLit 360 includes active student discourse around ideas and texts, helping deepen comprehension; vocabulary development that is both embedded and explicit within the lessons; and research skills that build agency and autonomy to enhance their understanding of the world around them and empower them to engage in their local and broader communities. All these work to supplement, support and build upon the currently adopted instructional materials in core ELA courses.



Previous Outcomes 
We are in our 2nd year of implementing Common Lit and upgraded in 23-24 to include the Pro version which has allowed us to have common assessments across the Intensive Reading classrooms in the district. Our data has been flatlined for some time now in moving the lowest 25%.  18-19 we were 1t 52% Learning Gain of lowest 25%, 20-21 46%, and 21-22 42%. 

Expected Outcomes 

Students will continue to use the CommonLit 360 program to differentiate lessons with the current content to help meet the needs of individualized students. CommonLit 360 data will assist all stakeholders with the ability to monitor, address student progress and needs, and move the growth of the lowest quartile towards proficiency.



Strategic Plan Goal

Pillar 1 - Every Student Achieves

Priority 1.2 - Expect Literacy for All

 

Pillar 2 - Every Student Supported
Priority 2.2 - Respond to Student Needs


Recommendation

That the purchase of CommonLit 360 at a cost of $104,000 for a two (2) Year Agreement be approved as presented. 



Contact Information

SUE  MECKLER   sue.meckler@sarasotacountyschools.net

BRANDON JOHNSON   brandon.johnson@sarasotacountyschools.net

RACHAEL O'DEA   rachael.o'dea@sarasotacountyschools.net



Financial Impact

The total fiscal impact is $104,000.

Funding Source: Grant (ESSER)



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APPROVAL OF THE PURCHASE OF COMMONLIT 360 ESSENTIALS PRO PLUS FOR GRADES 6-85/29/2024Cover Memo