(a) Programs made available to students for summer school and extended day instruction under this authority shall meet the following requirements: - (i) At a minimum, remediation, intervention, and credit recovery shall be made available in mathematics and reading/language arts, dependent upon the student's need as identified in the student's individual learning plan;
- (ii) Intervention strategies used by instructors shall be challenging, relevant, match the student's needs and learning style, engage the learner, and be dynamic, changing as a student responds to a specific strategy.
- (iii) Remedial instruction shall be tailored to the individual needs of each student with the goal of mastering identified deficiencies to improve the knowledge, competency, and skill of the student. Remedial instruction focuses on areas specifically targeted for each student, incorporating various and multiple effective education strategies and is diagnostic, prescriptive, and intensive.
- (iv) To the extent practical and reasonable, class size shall be limited to ten (10) students in elementary and to fifteen (15) students in junior high/middle and high school classes;
- (v) Student individual learning plans must be developed, implemented, and evaluated for each student. The learning plan shall be prepared by the certified teacher or team referring the student to summer school;
- (vi) Summer school teachers and persons providing extended day instruction shall receive seven (7) clock hours of training yearly in research-based instructional strategies that focus on individualized instructional approaches for teaching at-risk students;
- (vii) The school principal, district superintendent, or designee with administrative certification or any other professional supervising summer school or extended day programs shall receive training yearly in research-based instructional strategies that focus on individualized instructional approaches for at-risk students;
- (viii) To assure effectiveness of teaching and program quality, instruction delivered shall be monitored regularly by a district superintendent, school principal, or designee with administrative certification trained in research-based instructional strategies that focus on individualized instructional approaches for at-risk students;
(b) Summer school programs must additionally assure: - (i) Teachers providing summer school instruction under this authority shall meet the certification standards set forth under the rules and regulations of the Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board as created by W.S.§ 21-2-801;
- (ii) Delivery of a minimum of sixty (60) instructional hours over a period of at least fifteen (15) school days to each elementary and middle or junior high school student. These total hours may or may not include a combination of instruction in mathematics and reading/language arts, dependent upon the student's need as identified in their individual learning plan;
- (A) , Instruction to students in grades K-8 shall be direct, hands-on instruction delivered by appropriately certified teachers rather than instruction delivered through computer-based learning programs not associated with a distant certified teacher. This requirement is not meant to preclude the use of computers or computer programs to aid or supplement instruction.
- (iii) Availability of a minimum of sixty (60) instructional hours per subject to each high school student unless the student can demonstrate proficiency prior to concluding the full sixty (6G) hours of instruction.
- (A) High school students utilizing computer-based education learning programs not associated with a distant certified teacher to recover credits. in failed subjects must do so in an environment supervised and attended by a certified teacher.
(c) Extended day programs must additionally assure; - (i) The availability of an adequate number of instructional hours to assure the student has met the goals identified in their individual learning plan, can demonstrate proficiency, or their needs are addressed by another intervention.
- (ii) Students utilizing computer-based educational learning programs to supplement instruction being received in the classroom shall do so in an environment supervised and attended by a person with at least the minimum credentials of an instructional paraprofessipnal as defined in these rules, who is under the direction of the extended day teacher of record.
(d) Upon completion of summer school and extended day programs, each district shall report to the Department statistical, expenditure, programmatic evaluation, and student achievement data, and provide evidence of appropriate staff development as required by the Department in guidelines.
(e) As of the FY11 grant cycle (May 1, 2010), districts applying for grant funds under this authority must provide assurances to the Department of their ability to participate in statewide data analysis of student academic growth as measured by Northwest Education Association's Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP). Deadlines and instructions for submittal of student assessment data will be set forth by the Department in guidelines and will require; - (i) Spring and fall raw Rausch Unit (RIT) score data in reading and math from students the spring of second grade through the fall of ninth grade inclusive;
- (A) Fall and spring assessment of students must be accomplished using MAP'S Survey with Goals; -
- (ii) Student WISER identification numbers;
- (iii) Identification of students who completed summer school in which subjects for the data year requested.
206-33 Wyo. Code R. § 33-7