Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Homeschool Families in a Home School Assistance Progra

Systematic, explicit reading instruction including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension has been shown to be effective at teaching nearly all children to read. The Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework is used in schools for identifying students who need supplemental instruction and ascertaining their areas of weakness. It is also used for monitoring the progress of students and facilitating ongoing instructional decisions. Homeschool families typically do not have access to scholarly research about effective reading instruction or to tools for determining if their children are making adequate progress or if a change in instruction is needed. The Knoxville Home School Assistance Program (KHSAP) serves approximately 60 students in Knoxville, Iowa. Parents in the program seek confirmation their children are making adequate progress, but KHSAP staff are not in a position to definitively give affirmation. The purpose of this program improvement plan is to create an MTSS framework within KHSAP to provide families in the program with access to education about evidence-based reading instruction, universal screening, progress monitoring, and the support of KHSAP staff in making instructional decisions

Five Lenses on Team Tutor Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach

This chapter describes five disciplinary domains of research or lenses that contribute to the design of a team tutor. We focus on four significant challenges in developing Intelligent Team Tutoring Systems (ITTSs), and explore how the five lenses can offer guidance for these challenges. The four challenges arise in the design of team member interactions, performance metrics and skill development, feedback, and tutor authoring. The five lenses or research domains that we apply to these four challenges are Tutor Engineering, Learning Sciences, Science of Teams, Data Analyst, and Human–Computer Interaction. This matrix of applications from each perspective offers a framework to guide designers in creating ITTSs

Sea2Cloud: from biogenic emission fluxes to cloud properties in the South West Pacific

International audienceThe goal of the Sea2Cloud project is to study the interplay between surface oceanbiogeochemical and physical properties, fluxes to the atmosphere and ultimately their impacton cloud formation under minimal direct anthropogenic influence. Here we present aninterdisciplinary approach, combining atmospheric physics and chemistry with marinebiogeochemistry, during a voyage between 41 and 47°S in March 2020. In parallel to ambientmeasurements of atmospheric composition and seawater biogeochemical properties, wedescribe semi-controlled experiments to characterize nascent sea spray properties andnucleation from gas-phase biogenic emissions. The experimental framework for studying theimpact of the predicted evolution of ozone concentration in the Southern Hemisphere is alsodetailed. After describing the experimental strategy, we present the oceanic and meteorologicalcontext including provisional results on atmospheric thermodynamics, composition, and fluxmeasurements. In situ measurements and flux studies were carried out on different biologicalcommunities by sampling surface seawater from subantarctic, subtropical and frontal watermasses. Air-Sea-Tanks (ASIT) were used to quantify biogenic emissions of trace gases underrealistic environmental conditions, with nucleation observed in association with biogenicseawater emissions. Sea spray continuously generated produced sea spray fluxes of 34% oforganic matter by mass, of which 4% particles had fluorescent properties, and which sizedistribution ressembled the one found in clean sectors of the Southern Ocean. The goal ofSea2Cloud is to generate realistic parameterizations of emission flux dependences of tracegases and nucleation precursors, sea spray, cloud condensation nuclei and ice nuclei usingseawater biogeochemistry, for implementation in regional atmospheric model