1. READ 180 vs. Literacy Common Core Standards
Presenter: Brandy Collins

2. Obsolete Technology:
READ 180
•READ 180 is a comprehensive
system of
curriculum, instruction, assessm
ent, and professional
development proven to raise
reading achievement for
struggling readers in grades 4-
12+.
•READ 180 is designed for any
student reading two or more
years below grade level. It
leverages adaptive technology to
individualize instruction for
students and provide powerful
data for differentiation to
teachers.

3. Emerging Technology:
Common Core Standards
•Common Core State
Standards for Literacy is
that all students must be
able to comprehend texts
of steadily increasing
complexity as they progress
through school.
•By the time they finish the
core, students must be able
to read and comprehend
independently and
proficiently the kinds of
complex texts commonly
found in college and
careers.

4. READ 180 vs. Common Core Standards
READ 180 Common Core
Standards
Obsolete: Common Core
Enhances: Common Core
Standards are replacing the
Enhances: READ 180 is a Standards requires that each
comprehensive system of variety of standards that are
Obsolete: READ 180 replaced the student should be reading
curriculum, instruction, assessment and traditional form of teaching reading being taught from state to
professional development that has text that grows in complexity
known as Phonics. state. Makes is so that no
proven to raise reading achievement for as the school year
struggling readers in grades 4 plus. matter what school a student
progresses, and grows in
transfers to, their school will
complexity from grade to
be teaching the same
grade.
curriculum.
Reverses: Common Core
Retrieves: READ 180 begins with Retrieves: Common Core Standards should help build
traditional whole group instruction
Reverses: Common Core Standards are
Standards brings me back to students to answer
that engages the whole class. In
quickly replacing this technology. The the days I was in school progressively more rigorous
between the whole group
instruction, the students break into
district invested several thousands of where all of the students questions about the text they
dollars in READ 180 but feel it doesn’t seemed to be taught the read, which as a result will
groups and rotate though three
correlate with the common core
stations (much like elementary
standards that are now required. basics without all of the help them develop higher
students do) for small group and various programs that are order thinking skills
independent learning.
being sold to schools. (synthesis, analysis, and
evaluation).

5. Interview:
Interviewee: Taranah Page
Position: Curriculum Coordinator
Place of Employment: Little Rock School District
Date of Interview: July 19, 2012

6. Interview Transcript
 Interview Transcript Link
Brandy Collins Taranah Page

7. Six Forces that Drive Evolutionary
Technology
1. Evolutionary Technology: when one type
technology evolves from and enhances an earlier
version, it is considered evolutionary.
2. Rhymes of History: when a technology emerges
due to an impact felt from a previous technology; or
when a technology rekindles something from the
past.
3. Science Fiction: creative forces that expand and
generate new creative technological ideas.

8. Six Forces that Drive Evolutionary
Technology Con’t.
4. Disruptive Technology: the market doesn’t change
but the product does causing disruption to existing
technology and pushes it into obsolescence.
5. Increasing Returns: one technology’s ability to
capitalize on the popularity of another technology
and rise up and become popular.
6. Red Queens: when two technologies compete for
the same market and all other competitors are left
behind.

9. Evolutionary Technology:
Literacy Common Core
READ 180 Standards
 READ 180 was implemented  Common Core State Standards
in the Little Rock School are being implemented at the
District during the 2006-2007 middle level in Arkansas during
school year. the 2012-2013 school year.
 READ 180 emerged from the  Common standards emerged
need for more minority from the need to ensure that
students to improve the students are receiving a high
academic achievement gap as quality education
reported in the state testing consistently, from school to
data. school from state to state.

10. Rhymes of History:
Literacy Common Core
READ 180 Standards
 READ 180 brought back into  Common Core Standards
the classroom the need for remind us that there needs to be
more student involvement. more consistency within the
 READ 180 reinforced the schools in each state.
need for change within the  Common Core Standards
classroom. changed the variety of standards
 READ 180 integrated the that are being taught in the
need for whole group various schools around the state.
instruction, small group No matter what school a student
instruction and independent is in, they are expected to be
learning—all within the 90 learning the exact same
minutes of class. standards for Literacy.

11. Science Fiction:
Literacy Common Core
READ 180
Standards
 When students entered a  When students enter a
classroom set up for READ classroom designed for
implementing common core
180 instruction, they standards—each classroom will
immediately noticed that probably be designed in a
something was different than similar traditional manner.
Each teacher will be teaching
the traditional classroom. the same standard—the method
They initially notice the of their teaching that standard
might be different. The
technology, but it wasn’t long common goal—is that every
before they realized the student receive the same high
classroom was set up in a way quality education, no matter the
school they attend or the state
that involved engagement. they are receiving their
education in.

12. Disruptive Technology:
Literacy Common Core
READ 180 Standards
 READ 180 was disrupted after  Common Core Standards
4 years of being implemented have been a disruption to all
in the LRSD due to the data Literacy classes across the
that was received from the state due to the new
standards being
state test. The low achieving implemented.
students did not decrease the
 There will not be any new
achievement gap among technology implemented to
minority students as the correlate with the common
district had anticipated when core standards—each teacher
implementing this program will teach the same standard
in the Literacy classes. using their own method.

13. Increasing Returns:
Literacy Common Core
READ 180 Standards
 READ 180 experienced  Common Core Standards
increasing returns in other were implemented in the
districts that implemented elementary schools in the
this program across the state of Arkansas during the
United States. 2011-2012 school year. Based
on the state test, there was an
increase in the performance
of students in the LRSD due
to the implementation of
these standards.

14. Red Queens:
Literacy Common Core
READ 180 Standards
 READ 180 took the role of the  Common Core Standards has
Red Queen when compared taken the role of Red Queen
to the Literacy curriculum when compared to READ 180.
that was being taught in the The two curriculums competed
for their place in the educational
regular classrooms in the
setting, with common core
LRSD. The other programs standards winning in the end.
became obsolete once READ Common Core Standards reach
180 was adopted by the more students and makes more
district. sense with the high mobility rate
in the LRSD and within the
state.

15. What’s Next?
 Will there be a technology/curriculum that will
replace Common Core Standards the way they
replaced READ 180?
 My theory: there will always be individuals out there
that are trying to create or implement a new technology
or curriculum to replace what is in place. When we look
back a few years when NCLB was implemented—
educators all knew it was an impossible goal for our
students. After the federal education system seeing they
had created the impossible, the idea of common core
standards have now been created and implemented.

16. What’s Next?
 What kind of technology/curriculum might obsolete
common core standards?
 My theory: Common Core Standards will be in
place, the date from test results compared and if the
states aren’t seeing the increase in student achievement
then another form of technology/curriculum will be
adopted. There is always going to be a new and
improved technology out there that is trying to be “sold”
to the education system.

17. Interview Consent Form

18. References:
 Common Core State Standards Initiative (2012). Preparing America’s Students for College & Career. Retrieved from
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards.
 CREP: Center for Research in Educational Policy (2006). Little Rock School District READ 180 Evaluation. Retrieved from
http://clifmims.com/site/documents/READ180-FINAL-VERSION.pdf
 READ 180: The Next Generation (1996). Retrieved from http://read180.scholastic.com/reading-intervention-program
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