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Practices News SARA G Direct Instruction Effective School Practices news SARA G. TARVER, Editor, University of Wisconsin, Madison that cognitive scientists have deter- Practice: A Key to Success mined beyond any shadow of a doubt that students will only remember what they have practiced extensively and that they will remember for the long The number of DI success stories con- to all members of ADI, and indeed to term only that which they have prac- tinues to grow. This issue of DI News all who seek excellence in education, ticed in a sustained way over many includes (a) the stories of two schools by writing many articles about DI and years. This article supports Zig’s long- that received Wesley Becker Excellent generously sharing his many reference standing insistence on firming, firm- School Awards at the 2004 ADI Con- lists with those who seek references for ing, firming and mastery, mastery, ference—Buford Elementary School in various purposes. When you want to mastery. It also highlights the impor- Buford, Georgia and Eisenhut Elemen- find out what is known about a particu- tance of a particular feature of all DI tary School in Modesto, California; (b) lar topic related to DI, just ask Kerry. programs—massed to distributed prac- the story of Mountain View Academy tice. Intensive massed practice of new in Greeley, Colorado; and (c) the sto- All of these success stories rest on the ries of three schools that received shoulders of a group of Oregon profes- continued on page 3 Golden Apple Awards from Educa- sors who have been instrumental in tional Resources, Inc. (a Direct the development and promotion of the Instruction company)—Tippens Ele- research-based practices that we know mentary in Cherokee County, Georgia; today as DI—Doug Carnine, Ed FALL 2004, Volume 4, Number 2 Golden Door Academy in Jersey City, Kame’enui, Zig Engelmann, Deborah In this issue New Jersey; and Franklin Academy in Simmons, and others. Their phenome- Wake Forest, North Carolina. nal success at acquiring funding and A View From Askance conducting research having to do with 3 Many additional success stories are reading, special education, and vio- inherent in the accomplishments of lence prevention is discussed in an 4 ADI News the three people who received 2004 Associated Press article reprinted in Excellence in Education Awards—Lori this issue. 2004 ADI Excellence in Education Awards Agar, Muriel Berkeley, and Karen Davis 5 (see the write-ups of their accomplish- In his ongoing column about technical Changing Their Future: ments in this issue). Time after time, matters of interest to DI teachers, Don 10 Child by Child Lori Agar has demonstrated tremen- Crawford addresses the topic of auto- dous academic growth with her stu- maticity in decoding. In his typical Eisenhut Elementary School: dents as well as the students of other clear and easy-to-read style, Don An Example of the Power 14 of Direct Instruction teachers whom she trained. As Presi- explains some of the complex relation- dent of the Baltimore Curriculum Pro- ships among automatic decoding, oral Golden Apple Awards ject, Muriel Berkeley has played a reading fluency rate, comprehension, 16 leading role in the evolution of DI and listening. In so doing, he makes it schools that now serve as national mod- clear that most reading problems are View From the Top els, for example, City Springs Elemen- decoding problems and that most of 18 tary. Karen Davis, an outstanding our attention needs to be focused on regular and special education teacher, that basic aspect of reading instruction. Automaticity in Decoding has contributed to the success stories 20 of others through her coauthorship of What we must do to ensure that our three Direct Instruction programs as students’ new skills become automatic Oregon Profs Wield Influence well as her extensive teacher-training is addressed in Daniel Willingham’s 22 With Bush endeavors. Kerry Hempenstall, the article titled “Practice Makes Per- Practice Makes Perfect—But recipient of the Wes Becker Research fect—But Only If You Practice Beyond Only If You Practice Beyond Award, has provided a unique service the Point of Perfection.” He tells us 23 the Point of Perfection Direct Instruction News Editor Sara G. Tarver University of Wisconsin, Madison Contribute to DI News: Editorial Board Kerry Hempenstall Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology DI News provides practitioners, ADI members, the DI community, and those new Victoria, Australia to DI, with stories of successful implementations of DI, reports of ADI awards, Martin Kozloff tips regarding the effective delivery of DI, articles focused on particular types of University of North Carolina, Wilmington instruction, reprints of articles on timely topics, and position papers that address Vicki Snider current issues. The News’ focus is to provide newsworthy events that help us University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire reach the goals of teaching children more effectively and efficiently and commu- ADI Board of Directors nicating that a powerful technology for teaching exists but is not being utilized Bob Dixon in most American schools. Readers are invited to contribute personal accounts of Classical Learning success as well as relevant topics deemed useful to the DI community. General Olympia, Washington areas of submission follow: Susan Hanner Co-Author From the field: Submit letters describing your thrills and frustrations, prob- Creswell, Oregon lems and successes, and so on. A number of experts are available who may be Gary Johnson able to offer helpful solutions and recommendations to persons seeking advice. Co-Author/Independent Consultant Portland, Oregon News: Report news of interest to ADI’s members. Milly Schrader Success stories: Send your stories about successful instruction. These can be Elk Grove School District short, anecdotal pieces. Elk Grove, California Timothy Slocum Perspectives: Submit critiques and perspective essays about a theme of current Utah State University interest, such as: school restructuring, the ungraded classroom, cooperative Logan, Utah learning, site-based management, learning styles, heterogeneous grouping, Regu- Don Steely lar Ed Initiative and the law, and so on. Oregon Center for Applied Science Eugene, Oregon Book notes: Review a book of interest to members. Cathy Watkins California State University, Stanislaus New products: Descriptions of new products that are available are welcome. Turlock, California Send the description with a sample of the product or a research report validating its effectiveness. Space will be given only to products that have been field- The DI News is published semiannually by tested and empirically validated. the Association for Direct Instruction. 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If Managing Editor: Amy Griffin appropriate, the article will be sent out for review by peers in the field. These Publisher: The Association for Direct reviewers may recommend acceptance as is, revision without further review, revi- Instruction sion with a subsequent review, or rejection. The author is usually notified about http://www.adihome.org the status of the article within a 6- to 8-week period. If the article is published, Layout and Design: Beneda Design, Eugene, OR the author will receive five complimentary copies of the issue in which his or her article appears. 2 Fall 2004 Practice...continued from page 1 years is essential to the generalized It is important to remember, however, use of the skill. What Willingham calls that this practice feature is but one of skills is required initially (e.g., practice “sustained practice” is very similar to the many features that make DI so of letter–sound correspondences). Sus- what Doug Carnine and his colleagues effective. To experience successes like tained or distributed practice in differ- have advocated as “judicious review.” those described in this issue of DI ent contexts (e.g., sustained practice Make no mistake about it—the kind of News, teachers must use the complete of the letter–sound correspondences in practice that Willingham advocates is DI programs and deliver all of the a variety of words) over a period of inherent in DI.
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