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The Ohio Educational Development Center has many services to help your school.

Administrative Training: A basic tenet of the Ohio Educational Development Center, proven many times across a variety of Appalachian and urban districts, is that administrative support for the CLLIP and the participating teachers is essential to maximize teacher and student success. The Ohio Education Development Center provides a series of Administrative Trainings in which model lessons on DVDs are reviewed by the coaching staff in conjunction with district administration to provide a hands-on approach to coaching as a building principal. Using checklists designed by the OEDC, specific to each professional development module, administrators are asked to review various types of lessons and cite evidence and/ or lack thereof, to provide written/oral feedback on the lessons they review.

Ohio Department of Education Achievement Test Support: The Ohio Education Development Center is aware of the ever growing concern over high-stakes testing across the state of Ohio. One service offered by the OEDC is a daylong training to look specifically at the Ohio Achievement Tests for grades 3-6, analyzing questions for student requirements, Ohio Academic Content Standards alignment, and specific teacher recommendations pertaining to targeted instructional strategies to address the needs of their individual school district.

On-site Coaching: It is the belief of the Ohio Education Development Center that teachers need to be provided scaffolded and supported during the implementation of the CLLIP in their classrooms. In the spirit of offering such support, the OEDC provides weekly coaching visits by highly trained literacy specialists. These individuals, while building rapport and professional relationships with the CLLIP participants, meet with each teacher on a weekly basis providing a range of services including: co-planning and co-writing lessons, conferencing over lesson plans or lessons in progress, and observation of lessons that result in oral and/or written feedback. CLLIP teachers have been very positive concerning this experience and cited the weekly coaching visits as the 'effective support they needed' for successful implementation of the CLLIP best practice instructional strategies. The understanding for all stake-holders is that not only are "teachers held harmless", but often celebrated by the literacy coaches that visit their classrooms.

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