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TITLE:

Project VERIFY Value Added Through E-Coaching, Reflection, Instructional
Technology, Feedback, and You

CENTER:

OSEP

Award YEAR:

2021

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Michael Kennedy
University of Virginia

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Sarah A. Nagro
George Mason University
snagro@gmu.edu

Peter Youngs, Rachel L. Kunemund, Stephanie Morano, and Colby Hall
University of Virginia

PROGRAM:

Stepping-Up Technology Implementation

AWARD PERIOD:

4 years (07/01/2021 – 06/30/2026)

AWARD AMOUNT:

$2,499,676.00

DESCRIPTION:

Purpose: Project VERIFY (Value Added Through E-Coaching, Reflection, Instructional Technology, Feedback, and You) intends to deliver school leaders (e.g., principals, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders) with responsibility for providing professional development (PD) to teachers of students with disabilities a web-based suite of data-driven tools called COACHED (Capturing Observations and Collaboratively sHaring Educational Data). The goal of Project VERIFY’s technology-based PD is to help school leaders to independently support teachers’ enactment of evidence-based academic vocabulary instruction at the elementary level for students with disabilities. 
The COACHED suite of PD tools integrates five core elements created and maintained by our project team: 1) The Classroom Teaching (CT) Scan observation tool and accompanying data-driven outputs; 2) A Reflection Matrix template to guide teachers’ reflective practice following observations; 3) A feedback template that generates editable coaching notes using observation data from the CT Scan; 4) A library of on-demand multimedia vignettes focused on instructional improvement, and 5) A dashboard that allows stakeholders to access data, coaching reports, and personalized goals.