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Literacy Education for Adolescent Development

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ThinkLink

EVALUATION: ThinkLink Progress Monitoring

Through providing grade 6-8 students’ subscription access to ThinkLink, a formative assessment tool, student progress can be monitored toward meeting TN standards. ThinkLink will enable teachers to build mini-assessments using a practice item bank and offers additional online professional development resources. Teachers can create mini-assessments organized by skill and subskill, which are keyed to Tennessee learning standards.

Administrators will also monitor teacher implementation through:

• Classroom observations based on the Tennessee Teacher Evaluation Model
• Progress reports from the Read 180 program
• District evaluations of professional development

ThinkLink was funded through a $50,000 award from Representative Frank Nicely through the Community Enhancement Grant Program.

Project LEAD if funded through a partnership with the Niswonger Foundation.  The Partnership Program provides schools with the resources and expertise they need to become successful. By helping schools develop and maintain strong academic programs, the Foundation seeks to enhance the educational opportunities of all children.

Under the direction of Linda Irwin, each partnership project is tailored to the particular school and community in which it is located.