SIPPS Learning Portal: A Comprehensive Guide
The SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words) Learning Portal is a comprehensive, web-based platform designed to support educators in implementing the SIPPS reading curriculum. This curriculum is a foundational skills reading program created to aid both new and struggling readers in grades K-12. The Learning Portal serves as a central hub for accessing digital resources, managing student data, and receiving the latest program updates.
Introduction to SIPPS
SIPPS offers a structured-literacy approach to instruction through explicit routines focused on phonological awareness, spelling-sounds, and sight words. It is designed to address students’ word recognition needs at their instructional levels. When used as a core program, it supports the acquisition of grade-level, foundational skills standards. When used as a Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention, SIPPS accelerates progress so that students can close the gap and engage in grade-level reading.
Key Features of the Learning Portal
The Learning Portal is designed to be a one-stop dashboard where teachers can access all important educational resources from anywhere and at any time. It offers a range of features to support effective teaching and learning:
Access Pro and Digital Teacher's Set (DTS)
Inside Access Pro, users can instantly connect to the Digital Teacher’s Set (DTS), which includes the digital versions of all printed manuals and their components. Teachers can quickly reference Teacher’s Manuals wherever they are and manage the in-class transition from print to digital materials with ease. Access Pro is available on mobile devices in on- or off-line mode, allowing users to manage seamless transitions of materials between print, desktop, and mobile.
Resource Management
The Learning Portal helps teachers keep and manage program resources and student reproducibles. This feature ensures that educators have easy access to the materials they need for effective instruction.
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Assessment and Reporting
Teachers can build and share paperless assessments and reports through the Learning Portal. The new tools allow teachers to simply and quickly create classroom, group, and student-level data sets. Enhanced reporting facilitates a 360° view of student and district-level data. Teachers can also monitor student progress by rolling up individual or group level information for more efficient reporting.
Communication and Updates
The Learning Portal provides the very latest communications, updates, and instructional pacing notifications, ensuring that teachers are always informed about program developments and best practices.
Professional Learning Guidance and Video Tutorials
Via the Learning Portal, teachers also have access to professional learning guidance, video tutorials, and correlations. This support helps educators deepen their understanding of the SIPPS curriculum and improve their instructional skills.
ClassView Pro Assessment App
The ClassView Pro assessment app simplifies collecting, synthesizing, and sharing student assessment data, portfolios, and reporting. The tool is available for use on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices and connects with other Learning Portal digital products, such as the Card Deck Application and Organization Administrator.
Tech SSO/Roster Management
Collaborative Classroom offers the option to add Tech SSO/Roster Management for a one-time fee of $1500/district. Auto-provisioning allows for seamless creation of educator Learning Portal accounts. The system supports roster management with any source system.
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SIPPS Program Levels and Components
SIPPS is a multi-level program designed to meet the diverse needs of students in grades K-12. The program includes several levels, each targeting specific foundational skills:
Beginning Level
Beginning Level provides on-level instruction for kindergarten students and takes non-readers through the simple alphabetic phase of reading.
Extension Level
Extension Level is appropriate for readers who have mastered the simple alphabetic phase and are ready to move on to the spelling-pattern phase.
Challenge Level
The SIPPS Challenge Level is developmentally appropriate for students in grades 2 and 3 and beyond who have mastered the spelling-pattern phase of reading. For older students who have mastered the spelling-pattern phase, Challenge Level focuses on syllabic patterns, including open and closed syllables and consonant/vowel patterns, and morphological units, including common prefixes, roots, and suffixes.
SIPPS Plus
SIPPS Plus is uniquely designed to provide age-appropriate foundational skills intervention for students in grades 4-12 who are reading at a first- or second-grade level. Dreams on Wheels, an anthology of short, decodable texts on topics that appeal to the interests and content-reading demands of older students, provides decodable text correlated to the lessons.
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CC PAL App
Available separately, the CC PAL app gives students daily, targeted, independent retrieval practice aligned to their SIPPS instruction.
Implementation and Professional Learning
Collaborative Classroom provides a range of professional learning offerings and formats to meet the specific needs of schools and districts. These include in-person, virtual, self-paced independent learning, asynchronous online learning, and small-group sessions. The Teacher Learning System (TLS) provides teachers with self-guided professional learning and program support.
Implementation Guidance
The SIPPS Implementation Guidance is designed for organizations implementing SIPPS without Being a Reader.
Certification Courses
Build SIPPS expertise across your organization with these convenient, scalable Certification Courses. The Educator Course serves teachers using the program, while the Trainer Course is for instructional leaders who facilitate SIPPS professional learning for colleagues.
Collaborative Coaching
A Collaborative Coach will craft personalized learning experiences tailored to your unique goals. Collaborative Classroom partners with organizations to create custom professional learning plans that bring to life their vision for a successful, self-sustaining implementation.
Research and Effectiveness
A quasi-experimental evaluation of SIPPS was conducted with over 500 first and second-grade students from multiple schools in an urban district in Florida. Nearly 75% of students were identified as economically disadvantaged, 50% were White, and 32% Hispanic. The students identified as needing help with foundational reading skills used SIPPS as a Tier 2 intervention. Students received the intervention daily with an identified SIPPS teacher, and progress monitoring was used throughout. The matched comparison group received the “business as usual” interventions offered in their schools. Student reading skills were measured at two points during the 2021-2022 school year: September 2021 (pretest) and at the end of the fall semester, January 2022 (posttest).
Roles in SIPPS Implementation
Classroom teachers, Interventionists, or Paraprofessionals can implement the SIPPS program. In the qualifying research, teachers met with program implementation staff for professional development and support approximately every three weeks.
Benefits of Using SIPPS and the Learning Portal
- Targeted Instruction: Evidence-based, targeted small-group instruction ensures all young readers are met at their exact point of need.
- Accuracy and Automaticity: With SIPPS, both new and striving readers quickly develop the accuracy and automaticity needed for fluent, independent reading.
- Structured Literacy: The program’s systematic scope and sequence provides a structured-literacy approach to instruction through explicit routines focused on phonological awareness, spelling-sounds, and high-frequency words.
- Motivating Texts: Students are intrinsically motivated to read age-appropriate decodable texts that include recently taught spelling-sounds and high-frequency words.
- Comprehensive Support: SIPPS supports teachers of all experience levels with in-program features that develop their knowledge of content and pedagogy.
- Data-Driven Instruction: Initial and ongoing assessment in SIPPS helps ensure that students receive the appropriate instruction and that they move through the accelerative scope and sequence of lessons successfully.
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