[Simtrainer-l] Invitation to Participate in the KUCRL Possible Selves Study

Tue May 5 12:53:04 CDT 2020

Good afternoon SIM colleagues,

As you may know, KUCRL was awarded a grant from the IES division of the U.S. Department of Education to design a student online learning experience for Possible Selves and combine this strategy with a self-determination strategy. I am reaching out to see if you know of 1-2 10th grade teachers of students with learning disabilities who may want to implement this new version of Possible Selves by participating in the study. Attached are two information sheets: One that describes the invitation to participate, and one that gives insight on the interventions. Feel free to share this email and the attached overview flyers with anyone who you think may be interested.

The study is designed to improve transition outcomes by providing resources that promote self-identity and self-determination. It proposes to document how these critical areas of adolescent development improve academic and transition outcomes. We are in year one of the grant which allows for an eight-month recruiting window, so we are on track to conduct a few webinars this later this spring, and then we will officially start the study in the fall after onboarding teachers with a short series of one-two hour virtual professional development sessions.

Also, below is a brief timeline and description of activities that may be helpful to you.  Please let me know if I can answer questions for you, for school administrators, or for potential 10th grade teachers. Also, please note the webinar next week to talk about how best to begin the implementation part of the study.

Thank you for considering how you may be able to help us recruit teachers!
Jocelyn

BRIEF TIMELINE AND DESCRIPTION OF THE G3 ONBOARDING PROCESS AND KICKOFF

SPRING 2020
Depending on how the virus behaves, we have a few options for moving forward. One includes the opportunity to get underway this fall as planned if your district plans permit. Additional options (starting the project in 2021 or starting with some schools in 2020 and adding others in subsequent years) are under consideration with the federal Department of Education. We will be discussing this on a webinar and would value your best thinking on what will work well for your staff and students. Please let me know which date and time will work best for you to attend via Zoom: May 14 @ 2:00 PM Central time or May 19@ 8 AM Central time, and we will send you an invite.

The great news about this project is that the content lends itself well to be delivered as online activities for your teachers and students, so if we aren’t back to normal operations in the fall, it can still be a meaningful, yet easy option to implement for all types of learners. All in all, the project is currently non-intrusive. That is, researchers are not in your schools, project assessment is all online, and professional development and coaching are all virtual. Also, teachers and student access much of the material online.

FALL 2020
Early August and Late August - The decision has been made to have our kickoff online.  We want everyone to be able to access from their own computers.  We will be offering two professional development kickoffs to accommodate schedules.

September - Intervention gets underway - reminder that the intervention is not considered to be an entire curriculum; it is perceived as a lighter lift - a motivator and accelerator for engagement to current content that students are tasked with learning.

INCENTIVES
We know that engagement may look different depending on the size of the school and the structure of who will be delivering the intervention, (country specialist, resources teacher, or classroom teacher) so the inventive is set up to accommodate some flexibility especially since we will be following the same cadre of students across the study:  Year two we are targeting 10th grade, year three targeting 11th grade, year 4 targeting 12th grade, and year 5 we will follow up with their post-graduation transition.

Year One - no incentives as we are just identifying schools.

Year Two - $1,000 for the school and $500 for the teacher
(max two teachers per site, yet one teacher is fine so either one teacher @ $500 or two teachers @ $500 each)

Year Three - $500 per teacher
(max two teachers per site, yet one teacher is fine so either one teacher @ $500 or two teachers @ $500 each)

Year Four - $500 per teacher
(max two teachers per site, yet one teacher is fine so either one teacher @ $500 or two teachers @ $500 each)

Year Five - no incentives as grant staff will be working with you to follow up with students that have graduated.

We will send you the consent forms under separate cover once you decide to participate, and we will also need a letter of commitment from you.

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Jocelyn Washburn
Director of Professional Development
Senior Associate Researcher
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning
1122 West Campus Road, Room 708
Lawrence, KS 66045
https://sim.ku.edu
785-864-0622

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