All correspondence must be made through the Vendor Portal. Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification. Specifications include, but are not limited to: Marzano Research will provide coaching and meeting facilitation services to North Dakota’s State Literacy Team. Led by five core members, the Literacy Team includes 15 literacy experts from diverse backgrounds. These educators represent all levels from early childhood through university and advisers from state and local agencies. As stated in North Dakota’s comprehensive literacy plan, the team is responsible for ensuring implementation of evidence- based literacy practices throughout the state in general and supporting district and school literacy coaches in particular. In early 2021, Marzano Research created a logic model for this Literacy Team during a previous project. As the Literacy Team moves into their second year of operation, they will (1) revisit the logic model they originally created with Marzano Research, (2) reflect on the past year in order to, (3) plan for the future, particularly for the events that they hold to support district- and school- level literacy coaches, (4) discuss effective coaching practices, particularly building relationships with classroom teachers, and (5) develop supports for literacy-specific coaching. This work will take place during monthly meetings from November 2022 through April 2024 as well as during their three full-day in-person retreats in October 2022, spring 2023, and spring 2024. Marzano Research will carry out the following tasks: 1. Facilitate and support sessions at three in-person retreats 2. Facilitate and support monthly virtual reflection and planning sessions 1. Facilitate and Support Sessions at Retreats Marzano Research will attend the fall 2022, spring/summer 2023, and spring 2024 inperson retreats and facilitate approximately half of the day. Senior Managing Researcher, Dr. Shelby Hubach will draw on the Evaluation Toolkit (Stewart et al., 2021) and on her past work developing the logic model to guide the Literacy Team in reflecting on and revising their logic model during the fall 2022 retreat. Topics for the spring/summer 2023 and spring 2024 in-person retreats will be drawn from the needs that emerge during the monthly virtual sessions. Dr. Hubach will be joined in these meetings by Christy Lamb, a Marzano Research staff member and former instructional coach with deep expertise in literacy. This work will be grounded in best practices specifically for literacy coaches, drawing on publications such as the Self-Study Guide for Evidence-Based Coaching for Literacy:PreK-Grade12,as well as the team’s deep experience with literacy and literacy research. In addition, they will present best practices for coaching and assist team members in exploring the roles that coaches can play using the Marzano Research tools, Exploring Consultant Roles (Marzano Research & Dean Education Consulting, n.d.), Trust and Relationships (Marzano Research, n.d.), and Choose Intentionally: How to Select the Right Tool or Process for Your Client (Marzano Research & Dean Education Consulting, n.d.). Deliverables • Meeting agendas • Research-based resource supports • Slide decks • Revised logic model
