Kala Jones

About Kala Jones

Kala Jones, PhD is currently a Literary Specialist at the Strategic Education Research…

Experience

1. Literacy Specialist

   Serp Institute

   Mar 2023 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Collaborate with the project director and other team members to support implementation of the Strategic Adolescent Intervention (STARI) in grades 6-8.• Assist state, district- and school-level personnel with logistics of STARI implementation and adoption including selecting schools, selecting and training teachers, selecting students, scheduling STARI into the school day, administering assessments, etc. • Monitor implementation, including collecting data about instructional pacing, professional learning completion, and fidelity and quality of implementations; collaborate with project team and school and district staff to create and implement actionable next steps in response to these data. • Collaborate with evaluation partners to ensure that evaluation tasks are completed in a thorough and timely manner with minimal disruption to schools.• Conduct outreach and field inquiries about STARI from districts and schools nationally.• Assist with developing additional curriculum materials, including student and teacher STARI materials for high school grades, and fluency passages that are age-appropriate for middle and high schoolers but written at low levels of readability.