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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone, </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">I’m
currently assisting a ‘failing elementary (k-5) school, as well as an ’about to
fail’ middle school in an effort to turn things around. About 7 years ago, the
school district was cursing along with B+/A- performance levels when its
leadership made a series of truly bonehead decisions that resulted in a steep
and rapid decline in performance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Avenir-Book" class=""> </font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">Basically,
the district abandoned </span><u style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">all</u><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class=""> commercial programs, textbooks, etc. and
attempted to educate its children via tablets and ipads and teacher-invented
curricula. </span><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">As you might guess,
math performance outcomes are about as low as they can get (e.g., roughly 80%
of the middle school students’ math skills are 2</span><sup style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">nd</sup><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class=""> grade level).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Avenir-Book" class=""> </font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">Due
to turnover over the years, few of the teachers have any experience using
evidence-based programs and their pedagogical skills are quite limited, to say
the least.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Avenir-Book" class=""> </font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">Thus,
I’m looking for recommendations for evidence-based math programs that are
highly structured, systematic, and incorporate on-going progress monitoring for
formative assessment… more or less synonymous with what might be used as Tier 3
intervention for math. Can you recommend any commercial evidence-based math
programs that might fit this need? If not Tier 3 in nature, then can you
recommend a really good Tier 1 evidence-based math program?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Avenir-Book" class=""> </font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">Thanks
for your advice, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Avenir-Book" class="">Ed</font></p>
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