Background

SERP's First Collaboration with District of Columbia Public Schools

Through its partnership with Boston Public Schools, SERP had developed an adolescent literacy program, STARI, that showed positive findings in a study in 4 Massachusetts Districts. With an EIR mid-phase grant, SERP had the opportunity to engage four new districts outside of Massachusetts in an implementation and evaluation of STARI. DCPS joined that study.

2018

Field-site partnership formed.

DCPS indicated an interest in becoming a SERP field site—which would allow the district to nominate its own problem of practice. 

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SERP & DCPS apply for an IES Partnership Grant

2019

IES partnership proposal funded.

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2019-2021

Observations done in two waves.

2019-2020: Principal selected K-2 teachers in 6 schools; two researchers taking detailed notes to establish sources of variation to inform observations in year 2. Observations limited when Covid hit.

2021-2022: All K-2 teachers in 5 schools, and principal selected teachers in the 6th school, observed for 120 minutes according to a detailed protocol.

2021

Development grant proposal submitted to IES.

This would develop courses for new and novice teachers targeting practices that were highly variable during observations. Proposed courses would be designed for ongoing use as district standard practice, and would use only district measures of teachers’ practice and student learning (include text from the grant).

2022

Development grant funded.

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2022-2023

Eight teachers' classrooms recorded on video.

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2023-2024

Two professional learning courses created.

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2024-2025

Randomized control trial conducted.

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Effective Literacy Workstations course piloted in a random 1/3 of DCPS elementary schools in the fall.

Developing Student Discourse piloted in a randomly selected 1/3 of DCPS elementary schools in the spring.

Feedback informed revisions to both courses.

2025-2026

Rerandomized schools introduced to course.

Both courses introduce to a rerandomized 1/3 of schools for each course.