T3I: Teachers Testing Transformative Interventions
Project Description
Teachers Testing Transformative Interventions (T3I) is an exciting project sponsored by the University of Kansas (KU) Center for Research on Learning, Southern Connecticut State University, and the KU Beach Center on Disability. T3I’s mission is to engage in partnership with teachers to evaluate research-based programs. Our goal is to support high school students with learning disabilities successfully transition to college, technical school or enter a career of their choice.
Participating schools are randomly selected to participate in one of three T3I program tracks. Instructional coaches support teachers as they implement new programs in order to find out the effect of the programs on student outcomes. Our primary goal is to find out, with our learners, what is truly possible! Read more about T3I tracks below.
T3I TRACK 1: A program designed to guide high school students through a journey to identify their hopes, expectations, and fears. Teachers mentor students in the development of a meaningful transition plan crafted to support future goal attainment.
T3I TRACK 2: An instructional program created to support instruction and student learning through organizing curriculum content in an understandable and easy-to-learn manner. Organizational structures promote accessibility and higher order reasoning.
T3I TRACK 3: A program designed to guide students through a personal goal identification process while strengthening student problem solving skills. Teachers model and practice skills with students that foster self-determined behaviors.
T3I partnership approach: T3I is built upon the idea that testing theoretically sound educational approaches with qualified and enthusiastic teachers equals the opportunity to birth proven methods to facilitate student growth! T3I researchers hold that research-based approaches are only as good as the capacity to be immediately adopted and implemented by the classroom teacher. Our researchers leverage teacher expertise and their innate ability to recognize when approaches used with students prove beneficial to ensure relevance in the real-life classroom. Thus, T3I relies on teacher feedback throughout the implantation and data gathering process. As a result, by the end of the treatment phase of the project teachers will be experts in one of the three T3I tracks.
Timeline
T3I researchers are looking for partners starting the 2022 school year through 2024.
Teacher Support
In addition to a $750 per year honorarium, teachers will be provided materials, group and individual coaching, professional development and just in time feedback.
School Incentive
Each school will receive $300 for each year of participation in the project. To be used at the school’s discretion.
Partners
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning
University of Kansas Center on Developmental Disabilities
Southern Connecticut State University Center of Excellence for Teaching and Learning
Funder
The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant #R324A190011 to the University of Kansas. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.