To Whom It May Concern: Paige Price was a teacher inter in my learning support classroom for the entire 2017-2018 school year. She was a part of a teacher and instructional assistant team with a caseload of 15 students in 2! 3" and 4° grades, all of whom have learning disabilities, Paige was part of the pilot year of a Professional Development School (PDS) program partnership between West Chester University and West Chester ‘Area School District. Paige began in my classroom prior to the first mandated teacher day to help me set up the classroom and attended every possible teacher professional development opportunity and staff ‘meeting throughout the year. Additionally, she attended every IEP, Evaluation, and parent meeting, as ‘well as volunteering to be trained in Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) and joining a group study of Whole Brain Teaching, Paige sought to learn as much as possible, frequently asking questions and showing initiative from the first day. Ms, Price was in my classtoom three days per week throughout the Fall semester and split time between special education classrooms and a regular education classroom five days per week during the Spring semester. The PDS model allowed Paige to have the unique experience of opening and closing the classroom and teaching and co-teaching with me throughout the entire school year. Paige and collaborated on everything from classroom routines, daily lessons, progress monitoring, IEPs, behavior plans, and assessments. Throughout this time, Paige successfully demonstrated her awareness of different Teaming styles and adequately adjusted assignments to meet the varied needs of students. Her lessons \were thoroughly prepared and implemented and she was successful in monitoring and adjusting to various schedule changes during her time of teaching. Paige's Special Education experience included teaching standards-based lessons in Language Arts, Math, Writing, and Social Skills. Each of these areas required whole group and small group teaching and re- teaching of skills. In reading, Ms. Price implemented such programs as Intervention by Design, Words ‘Their Way, Read Naturally, and Guided Reading, She used Math in Focus as well as various supplemental materials in order to ensure student understanding of math concepts. Paige also created her own materials to enrich leerning in the classroom, Her writing instruction included creating and teaching lessons on narrative, expository, persuasive, and poetry writing. The writing lessons were adapted to the different levels of the writers and incorporated the five steps of the writing process. Paige also used ‘Aimsweb probes in reading and math to obtain progress monitoring data. Paige possesses a positive and enthusiastic personality. She has a great rapport with the students she has worked with. She is well dressed, articulate, and always ready with a smile and a kind word. [ observed Paige's efforts to create positive working relationships with other staff members and in turn she was accepted 2s part ofthe staff at Fem Hill Elementary, not just a student teacher. Our students will be sed to see her go. 1am confident that Ms, Price will be an asset to any professional staff. She is confident, knowledgeable, and has the skills to be a successful teacher. I believe that she will continue to grow and become even more effective as a teacher with further opportunities. Please feel free to contact me for more information at 717-215-7390, abird@weasd.net, or ashleya.bird/@gmail.com. Ashley 248 Grade LS Teacher Ferm Hill Elementary West Chester Area School District