Collaborative Classroom continuously learns and evolves alongside our school, district, and community partners. For more than 40 years we have conducted research, analyzed data, and worked in classrooms to create and revise programs and services that support both students’ academic and social development and teachers’ ongoing professional learning.
We are committed to ongoing research on the efficacy of our resources and to the study of the effects of our work on students’ growth and achievement.
Programs
ESSA Evidence for Our K–12 Programs
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) emphasizes state and local control, providing school districts with the flexibility to determine appropriate curricula and interventions for their schools. The levels of evidence define the study criteria.
The chart below identifies the ESSA Evidence level for each of our programs.
Click the link for each program’s evidence.
| Program Evidence | Level 4 Demonstrates a Rationale | Level 3 Promising Evidence | Level 2 Moderate Evidence | Level 1 Strong Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative Literacy evidence | ✔︎ | |||
| Being a Reader evidence | ✔︎ | |||
| SIPPS evidence | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | |
| Being a Writer evidence | ✔︎ | |||
| Caring School Community evidence | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
Level 1: Strong Evidence
A well-designed, well-implemented experimental study with randomized control groups
Level 2: Moderate Evidence
A well-implemented quasi-experimental study with matched treatment and control groups
Level 3: Promising Evidence
A well-implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias
Level 4: Demonstrates a Rationale
A program or practice, under evaluation, that is informed by research
Professional Learning
Evidence for SEEDS of Learning
SEEDS of Learning™ is a a professional learning framework for adults who care for and teach young children.
SEEDS of Learning uses a unique combination of training, coaching, and professional learning communities (PLCs) to empower adults with the knowledge to develop oral language, emergent literacy, and social and emotional skills in all three- to five-year-olds, setting them up for success in kindergarten and beyond.
A randomized control trial – the gold standard in social science measurement – proves that a single year of SEEDS training for educators produces statistically significant, positive gains in children’s early reading skills, of up to 8 months of additional learning within one single year.
