<div dir="auto">Pretty remarkable. I stumbled across DI and it allows me to continue to homeschool. It is time consuming but my children appreciate the one on one. My six year old even enjoys using the guide to pretend to teach me. I only wish it was more affordable to homeschooling families. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 11:59 AM <<a href="mailto:di-request@lists.uoregon.edu">di-request@lists.uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send di mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Direct Instruction data shows learning growth (Kerry Hempenstall)<br>
2. Opposition to SB 614 / CA Association for Parent-Child<br>
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:45:29 +0000<br>
From: Kerry Hempenstall <<a href="mailto:kerry.hempenstall@rmit.edu.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kerry.hempenstall@rmit.edu.au</a>><br>
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Some good news from Oz:<br>
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Direct Instruction data shows learning growth. THE AUSTRALIAN 3/8/20<br>
<a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/direct-instruction-data-shows-learning-growth/news-story/4d04b37bf6347d8d75bb0c169cf2d7eb" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/direct-instruction-data-shows-learning-growth/news-story/4d04b37bf6347d8d75bb0c169cf2d7eb</a><br>
Direct Instruction data shows learning growth At university in Ballarat, Colin Kiel was immersed in the theory of ?student-led? learning, a teaching method sometimes described as belief in a child?s ability to share in decisions about what happens next in the classroom. What he learned as a teaching graduate on arrival at Ali Curung, 1100km down the Stuart Highway from Darwin, could not have been more different. Mr Kiel is now the principal at Ali Curung?s Alekarenge School, where the rigid Direct Instruction method was rolled out as part of a program funded by the Australian government in 34 schools in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia between 2015 and 2019. He said students? families were itinerant, which presented challenges. According to the MySchool website, only 4 per cent of students enrolled at Alekarenge attended there 90 per cent of the time or more in 2019. However, Mr Kiel said Direct Instruction had helped students who were now in Years 5 !<br>
and 6 to make steady gains. He said thanks to Direct Instruction, a girl who could match only five sounds to letters as a Year 6 student four years ago was now a fluent reader. Direct Instruction has critics and supporters in academia. A parliamentary inquiry is being asked to consider the program?s success in very remote schools in terms of growth ? that is, the improvements the students made over time ? rather than snapshot comparisons with other students.<br>
This follows a critique of Direct Instruction in the Journal of Indigenous Education by John Guenther and Samuel Osborne that found the program ?has a potential to be associated with educational harm to at least some students?. Education expert Jennifer Buckingham described that criticism as flawed, in part because it included data from the first four months of 2015 when Direct Instruction was just beginning. The parliamentary inquiry into education in remote and complex environments is considering an alternate analysis of Direct Instruction by Good to Great Schools Australia, which implemented the program for the commonwealth. Good to Great Schools analysed the same school data for reading, writing, spelling and grammar and punctuation scores and found in all areas that Direct Instruction schools showed significant growth compared with others. In reading, Direct Instruction schools averaged 124 per cent growth between 2015 and 2017. The average growth for comparable ages wa!<br>
s 34 per cent for very remote Indigenous schools. Good to Great Schools co-chair Noel Pearson said one of the strengths of Direct Instruction was that each child was thoroughly assessed before being placed in a lesson that allowed them to have some success immediately. ?You have to start where they are at,? he said.<br>
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Dr Kerry Hempenstall,<br>
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Subject: di: Opposition to SB 614 / CA Association for Parent-Child<br>
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California?s Assembly Education Committee is holding a hearing Monday, August 3, on SB 614, a very bad bill. It passed the Senate with a different subject last spring, and was then gut-amended to remove California requirements for research-based reading instruction and eliminate the test that teachers must pass in reading instruction. This would remove the leverage that we currently have, such as it is, to demand comprehensive, research-based reading instruction for students with disabilities. It would create more ?instructional casualties??students who are deemed learning disabled, or even intellectually disabled, because they do not intuitively pick up reading with whole language instruction, and need systematic, phonics-based instruction instead. After much opposition, this bill was dropped last summer, but is being revived in the strange session that is occurring this summer.<br>
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It is very important that as many people as possible be watching the hearing, and request to speak in opposition to the bill. The legislature needs to know that people are watching this. The hearing is Monday, August 3, at 1 p.m. PST.<br>
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Here is a link to see, or get to the link to see, the Education Committee. <a href="https://www.assembly.ca.gov/todaysevents" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.assembly.ca.gov/todaysevents</a><<a href="https://edvoice.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a14631e5cc51cfa1714672da0&id=411dee385e&e=d0bf494300" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://edvoice.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a14631e5cc51cfa1714672da0&id=411dee385e&e=d0bf494300</a>> I think that a few people will be able to speak substantively and others will be able to say their name and roles/positions, and say that they oppose SB 614.<br>
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Also, please contact members of the Education Committee Monday morning and let them know that SB 614 would seriously weaken California reading instruction. The problem with research-based instruction is not that it doesn?t work; it?s that too often it does not occur. We need to strengthen access to research-based instruction, not give in to its opponents, who are taking advantage of this moment to weaken public school reading instruction. That would encourage parents to leave the public school system, reduce support for public education, and hurt all students, particularly students with disabilities and students whose families cannot supplement whatever reading instruction they receive in school with on-line programs and private tutoring.<br>
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Here is a link to the bill and related information: <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB614" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB614</a><br>
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Below is a link to the letter submitted by the California Association for Parent-Child Advocacy:<br>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ki5DMpXm139_tge4L6jE74jKCHLDbUuq/view?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ki5DMpXm139_tge4L6jE74jKCHLDbUuq/view?usp=sharing</a><br>
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Here are members of the Assembly Education Committee:<br>
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Committee Members<br>
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Office & Contact Information<br>
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Patrick O'Donnell (Chair)<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a70" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a70</a>><br>
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Dem - 70<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Patrick O'Donnell<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD70" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD70</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 4001<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0070; (916) 319-2070<br>
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Kevin Kiley (Vice Chair)<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a06" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a06</a>><br>
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Rep - 06<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Kevin Kiley<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD06&inframe=Y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD06&inframe=Y</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 5128<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0006; (916) 319-2006<br>
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Megan Dahle<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a01" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a01</a>><br>
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Rep - 01<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Megan Dahle<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD01&inframe=Y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD01&inframe=Y</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 4208<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0001; (916) 319-2001<br>
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Ash Kalra<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a27" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a27</a>><br>
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Dem - 27<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Ash Kalra<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD27&inframe=Y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD27&inframe=Y</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 2196<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0027; (916) 319-2027<br>
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Kevin McCarty<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a07" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a07</a>><br>
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Dem - 07<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Kevin McCarty<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD07&inframe=Y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD07&inframe=Y</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 2136<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0007; (916) 319-2007<br>
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Christy Smith<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a38" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a38</a>><br>
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Dem - 38<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Christy Smith<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD38&inframe=Y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD38&inframe=Y</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 2158<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0038; (916) 319-2038<br>
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Shirley N. Weber<<a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a79" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assembly.ca.gov/a79</a>><br>
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Dem - 79<br>
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Contact Assembly Member Shirley N. Weber<<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD79&inframe=Y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD79&inframe=Y</a>><br>
Capitol Office, Room 3123<br>
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0079; (916) 319-2079<br>
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