Ashley Kitt and Liz Phillips are special education teachers at Churubusco Middle School who service 28 students with disabilities. They created a Classroom Literacy Profile (CLP) to better organize their assessment of students and monitor progress more accurately and efficiently. The school has approximately 300 students in grades 6-8, with 30% receiving special education services. The teachers' goals are to monitor student progress more efficiently through better organization and incorporate additional assessments in literacy. Their CLP outlines current and new assessments they administer, as well as their organization and implementation plans to assess students at the beginning and end of year, and monthly.

1. Classroom Literacy ProfileAshley KittSummer 2010EdRdg 680

2. CLP TeamAshley Kitt and Liz Phillips have worked together at Churubusco Middle School for five years as special education teachers. They service twenty-eight students with varying disabilities. Ashley and Liz currently do assessment measures with all of their students. The CLP is a great tool to organize and incorporate new assessments into their current testing. They feel using the CLP will be a great way to monitor their assessments more accurately and efficiently and will benefit their students greatly.

3. School ProfileChurubusco Middle School is set in a rural community. The school has approximately 300 students between grades 6 through 8 and a special education population of about 30%. 29% of the students receive free or reduced lunch. Go Eagles!

4. Class ProfileSpecial Education Student Make-Up: Specific Learning DisabilityAutism Spectrum DisorderAttention Deficit DisorderNumber of Students6th – 6 students7th – 8 students8th – 14 students

5. ISTEPSpecial Education Churubusco Middle School

6. GoalsWe would like to monitor our students’ progress more efficiently with better organization.We would like to incorporate more assessments to monitor more areas of literacy.We would like to create more accurate and informative IEPs with the new data results.

7. Current AssessmentsISTEPAcuityScholastic Reading InventoryRead 180: Fluency Screen – words per minute Curriculum Based Measure: Maze Passage – comprehensionCurriculum Based Measure: Fluency – words perCurriculum Based Measure: Writing – correct writing sequences –

8. New AssessmentsReading Strategy Use ScaleMetacomprehensionStrategy IndexMotivation for Reading QuestionnaireStudent Reading InventoryContent Area Reading InventoryMultidimensional Fluency Scale

9. OrganizationEach grade level will have its own binder of assessment data and samples. Each assessment will have its own spreadsheet containing all of the students’ data. A calendar will be placed in the front of the binder to indicate what assessment needs to be completed on what date.

10. ImplementationBeginning and End of the Year AssessmentsThese assessments will be spread out through the first week of school. Each assessment will be discussed with the students and how they can benefit their progress.Monthly AssessmentsOne fluency, comprehension, and writing assessment will be given one time a month. Each assessment will be spread out through the month so students are not overwhelmed with testing. If there is more than one assessment per area (ex. fluency) the tests will be rotated and given every other month.

11. Final ThoughtsThrough the creation of our Classroom Literacy Profile we feel that we have a better way to track student progress and monitor growth. We are also excited about incorporating new assessments and plan on reviewing them at the beginning of the following school year and adding new assessments as needed.