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Georgia Pyramid of Interventions: Setting the stage for appropriate child find procedures

Georgia Pyramid of Interventions: Setting the stage for appropriate child find procedures. Dawnyell S. King – Troup County Schools Dr. Paula Freer – GaDOE. In your job, which describes your role?. Fireman Policeman Teacher Coach. Essential Question. What are key elements of Child Find?

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Georgia Pyramid of Interventions: Setting the stage for appropriate child find procedures

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  1. Georgia Pyramid of Interventions: Setting the stage for appropriate child find procedures DawnyellS. King – Troup County Schools Dr. Paula Freer – GaDOE

  2. In your job, which describes your role? Fireman Policeman Teacher Coach

  3. Essential Question • What are key elements of Child Find? • Procedures that ensure that all suspected students with disabilities, birth to 21, are identified, located and evaluated • Pre-referral process that includes the implementation of scientific, research-based interventions, and frequent progress monitoring for a sufficient length of time prior to referral for Special Education (GA Rules & Regulations,2010)

  4. Objective • To review the 4 components of local general supervision as they relate to child find

  5. Troup County Schools: That was then….. • Problems with: • School wide approaches and prereferral interventions • Child Find procedures • Evaluation and Reevaluations • Eligibility Determination • Least Restrictive Environments • Discipline

  6. 2009-Present • Implement POI High School Teaching Coaching Professional Learning Practices FiremanSupervision Policeman Implementation Policies & Procedures Pre-RTI • 2008-09 • Implement POI Middle School • 2007-08 • PL on RTI and POI for Admin • Implement POI Elem • 2006-07 • POI committee formed • SI Dismissal • Discipline Reports • 1998-2005 • FM-Dispro • MID/EBD, Disc, • Achievement • SI/Lang • Psych Serv Audit • SST Audit No longer Dispro based on 05-06 data

  7. Guiding Question #1 • Does your system have written policy and/or procedures for the implementation of Georgia’s child find rule? • What is the district level policy or procedures related to child find?

  8. Guiding Question #2 • Does your district provide high quality, job-embedded, ongoing-sustained professional learning activities (coaching, walk-throughs..) for school personnel to assist with the implementation of the child find rule? • What data do you use to guide development of PL? • Who delivers the professional learning? • How is it sustained? • What follow up data (fidelity, coaching..) is collected to ensure PL is implemented and successful? • What personnel are included in the professional learning?

  9. Guiding Question #3 • Does your district provide sustained supervision to monitor the implementation (practices) of policies and procedures that will ensure compliance of child find policies and procedures? • What are the procedures for monitoring? • What are the procedures for intervening if the rule is not followed?

  10. Guiding Question #4 • Does your district have a process to identify schools that are not compliant with the child find policies and/or procedures and require a corrective action? • What are the procedures for identifying schools? • Are there corrective action plans developed for non-compliant schools? • What type of technical assistance (TA) and how is TA provided?

  11. Guiding Question #5 • Does your district publish an annual notice of any significant activity that is designed to identify, locate or evaluate children using some type of media to publicly notify parents? • What type of information is provided related to child find and where does the LEA publish the information?

  12. Guiding Question #6 • Does your district provide screening and evaluation of all children with suspected disabilities birth through age 21? • What are policies and procedures for screening and evaluation of children suspected of having a disability? • What is the process for obtaining an evaluation and obtaining a consent?

  13. Guiding Question #7 • Does your district have a practical method to determine which children are currently receiving special education and related services? • What is your system for keeping records of and monitoring students with IEPs?

  14. Guiding Question #8 • Does your district provide student referrals that are accompanied by documentation of scientific, research or evidence-based academic and/or behavioral interventions that have been implemented as designed for the appropriate period of time to show effect or lack of effect that demonstrates the child is not making sufficient rate of progress to meet age of State-approved, grade-level What guidance do you use to determine scientific, research or evidence-based academic and/or behavioral interventions? • What guidance do you use to determine scientific, research or evidence-based academic and/or behavioral interventions? • Is there systematic documentation of interventions and student’s response to intervention (progress monitoring) and guidelines to measure rate of improvement/progress? • How do you provide training of interventions to staff? • How is intervention implementation, fidelity and coaching of interventions ensured? • ?

  15. Research to Guide You What Works Clearinghouse (US Dept of Ed) http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/  Best Evidence Encyclopedia (Johns Hopkins)www.bestevidence.org  Promising Practices Networkwww.promisingpractices.net Colorado Blueprints http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/ http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/index.html SAMHSA NREPP www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/

  16. Research to Guide You GaDOE http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Pages/Response-to-Intervention.aspx • RTI Guidance Document • RTI Professional Learning Webinar Series: Using Research to Select and Design Effective Interventions • RTI Series 1: RTI Overview of the Series • RTI Series 2: Scientifically Based Research and Evidence-Based Decision Making

  17. Thank you! • Youare the key to success! • Together, We Can Make a Difference! • Dawnyell King kingds@troup.org • Paula Freer pfreer@doe.k12.ga.us

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