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Big News Coming to Iowa!!!

We are excited to announce that Cultivate Education has been selected to as a Grant Support Provider (GSP) for the Iowa Department of Education’s Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant! We are one of only a few organizations that are eligible to serve as both a Literacy and Leadership GSP, to help schools build and sustain successful teams in addressing the literacy needs of their students. 

With our expertise in the Science of Reading, literacy programs, evidence-based practice implementation, and Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) frameworks, Cultivate Education’s Implementation Specialists are ideally suited to provide supplementary roles tailored to each school’s literacy implementation needs. Rather than a cookie-cutter approach, partner schools contract only for the supplemental support they require (content expertise, facilitation, data analysis, coaching, etc.) in order to strengthen local capacity, adapt evidence-based practices, and sustain literacy improvement. Research underscores that even this type of fractional coaching allocation creates and sustains implementation momentum, fosters professional learning, and aligns practices with effective interventions – which ultimately enables schools to develop local independence and long-term success.

Please visit our dedicated webpage for more information at https://www.cultivateeducation.org/clsd/

Now updated for the 2025-26 school year, check out our Professional Learning Menu at https://www.cultivateeducation.org/professional-development/

 

What is the Inclusive Classroom Framework?

    • A collection of 50 evidence-based practices broken down into straightforward, daily implementation plans

    • These 50 practices have been selected to prioritize meaningfully representing and including all students in their classrooms

    • This Framework works to streamline four implementation questions that educators face:

        1. What instructional and classroom management practices have evidence to support their efficacy in supporting and including all students?

        2. How can I coherently organize these practices to best support all student learning and development?

        3. How do I narrow down the list of practices from that which I could use to the list of practices that I should use?

        4. Once I’ve selected specific practices, what are the steps I should take to successfully implement and measure the impact?

How can I learn more about the Inclusive Classroom Framework and find implementation resources?

Spotlight Resource: 

Inclusive Classroom Framework – The Workbook 

 

Struggling to implement best practices in your classroom? You are certainly not alone!

At long last help is on the way, as we’ve finalized the Implementation Workbook that corresponds to the popular Inclusive Classroom Framework. Available for purchase as a pdf through Gumroad, this Workbook has implementation templates for each of the 50 instructional practices highlighted within the Inclusive Classroom Framework. Implementing best practices in your classroom has never been easier! Go to our Gumroad page at  https://cultivatechris.gumroad.com/l/yyopok

Previous Spotlight Resource: Addressing Chronic Absenteeism 

Absenteeism continues to be a troubling issue for schools to comprehensively address. Check out our “Absenteeism” tab for ideas and resources on how your school can begin tackling the issue.

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Are you tired of having your school improvement efforts fail to improve anything?

Cultivate’s Implementation Coaching Services are custom built for each partner school to leverage existing implementation strengths, and supplement implementation gaps. Coaching can address academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional needs, and is provided by Implementation Specialists with extensive classroom, coaching, and leadership experience. Coaching sessions will target current student learning needs, as well as building long-term sustainable capacity for your initiative. Click here for more information on Implementation Coaching.

 

Previous Spotlight Service

The Cultivate Achievement Series are a set of customized tools which enable school districts to more deeply analyze state assessment data to track group performance over time by cohorts, grade levels, subgroups, and many more. For more information, go to the Cultivate Achievement Series page.

Spotlight on Ruidoso Municipal Schools – Ruidoso, NM.

The high powered Cultivate Achievement tool enables state assessment data to be viewed much more dynamically than your typical state issued report. By viewing the data more dynamically, exceptional outcomes are more easily seen, and lead to the identification of outlier districts where best practices are occurring. 

 

One such district is Ruidoso Municipal Schools, a district of about 2,000 students in New Mexico. What sets Ruidoso apart from most other districts in New Mexico is how over the last 5 years they have simultaneously increased the percentage of student scoring at proficiency in both English Language Arts (ELA) and Math State Assessments. Additionally, over this same time period, they have drastically increasing their graduation rates for all subgroups of students, including English Language Learners (ELL), Students with Disabilities (SWD), and American Indian students.

 

Ruidoso State Assessment Chart

Dr. George Bickert, Superintendent from Ruidoso Municipal Schools was gracious enough to talk with Cultivate Education about how they have systemically reached these exceptional outcomes for their students. To read more about their journey, view the Spotlight on Ruidoso Municipal Schools.

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