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eMINTSPD That Works
Ten years of experience in developing high quality professional development for teachers.
Cathie LoesingProgram Coordinator
eWHAT?
eMINTS was a grass-roots program designed by teachers.
1997 St. Louis Schools
2003 Utah
2008 Australia
Today eMINTS teachers are in over 4000 classrooms in the U.S. and
Australia
The eMINTS model is not traditional teaching.
Skill MasteryComprehension
Text-basedStandards-based
SeparateIntegrated
TestsVariety of Projects
Focus
Scope
Subjects
Assessment
eMINTS professional development is based on active learning.
eMINTS Partners
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Tenth Anniversary
The lessons and how to use them.
2. Effective professional development experiences are sustained and ongoing.Disimone, 2001
= more than 200 hours over a two year period.
3. Support and modeling are necessary for teaching strategies to be successfully integrated into practice.Joyce and Showers, 2002
= purposeful in-classroom support and coaching are provided by eIS.
4. Effective staff development is deeply embedded in teachers’ classroom work with children.Russo, 2004
= closely related to daily teaching with the teacher as the decision-maker.
5. Schools with successful professional development initiatives have strong administrative support.Joyce and Showers, 2002
= 4Admin program
6. Professional development is more successful when teachers participate as a school, grade, or department.Porter, 2000
= whole school implementations
Align strategies to the curriculum and standards
Plan very different teaching strategies
Commit to PD
What do eMINTS teachers do?
What do eMINTS students do?
Prepare for the future
Direct Personal Learning
Become Responsible
Get excited about learning
Read/Scan information
Work Together
1. Students enrolled in eMINTS classrooms scored higher on state tests than students in traditional classrooms.
Up to ½ year additional growth in CA and Math.
The Results:
2. eMINTS classrooms show reduced deficits for low-income and SpEd students.
In fact, the effect of eMINTS was greatest for these students.
The Results:
3. High-quality professional development can change teaching practice.
The Results:
eMINTS professional development has been shown to maintain an effect up through three years following completion.
4. Program fidelity contributes to successful professional development
eMINTS Instructional Specialists exhibit a great degree of fidelity to the core program. There is a significant positive correlation between PD Fidelity and student achievement on state tests.
The Results:
In Race to the Top
1.Delaware2.Tennessee
What’s Next?
Investing In Innovation
2010-2015
Validation
Randomized Control
62 Missouri schools
Rural and low-income
Poor academic performance
7th and 8th grade
What Else?
