BAIP News

BAIP is Growing: When the Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP) began, the "P" stood for project. It soon became apparent that while the first development effort would be in a single subject area, such as mathematics, BAIP was a concept that generalized across other subject matter fields and it was in fact a supplemental instructional program model. As teachers and other educators became aware of BAIP, we began to receive suggestions on other content areas where a BAIP version would be helpful to teachers and enhance the performance of students. Reading, science, and social studies were among the subjects suggested for consideration. While no subject has been eliminated from consideration, the decision was made to move into science at grades 3 through 7. On February 2nd, a group of 18 science teachers and coordinators spent the day at the e-Learning Design Lab working on the lesson design for a science version of BAIP. The goal of the design is to adhere to the basic features of the math lesson, but to make essential changes to accommodate science. It was a productive session. Most of the participants were already familiar with BAIP and some teachers were using the math version in their classrooms. We continue to work with this group and anticipate having a science lesson design in two weeks. Soon we will begin the process of recruiting lesson writers. We are working on a development model that will allow us to have simultaneous development efforts across other content areas. We will keep you up to date as the planning progresses.

The Lesson Feedback Survey is important: Continued improvement and support of BAIP is dependent on our knowing how frequently the lessons and tutorials are being used and their contribution to student performance. The Lesson Feedback Survey, linked to each lesson in the "My Content" section, asks you to provide feedback on the BAIP lessons you teach. The estimated time to complete each form is less than five minutes. Unless we receive feedback from the field, we are at a serious disadvantage in determining what features of BAIP warrant improvement and in securing support for continuing to make BAIP available to teachers.

BAIP registrations increase: The number of districts registered with BAIP has now increased to 269. On February 11th, BAIP was presented at the Kansas Association of Religious and Independent Schools (KAIRS) conference. KAIRS represents more that 38,000 students and 2,700 teachers in Kansas. Thus, many of the new registrants are from private schools.

Kansas Assessment Approaching: Many of you will soon be administering the Kansas Assessments. Remember you are free to review BAIP lessons and to assign tutorials to students for review. BAIP is designed to allow you this flexibility.

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