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Helping Students Become Better Readers with Social Skills Necessary for Success Steve Goodman sgoodman@oaisd.org Funded through OSEP State Personnel Development Grant and Michigan Department of Education- Office of Special Education. miblsi.cenmi.org. Two Categories of Work.
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Helping Students Become Better Readerswith Social Skills Necessary for Success Steve Goodman sgoodman@oaisd.org Funded through OSEP State Personnel Development Grant and Michigan Department of Education- Office of Special Education miblsi.cenmi.org
Two Categories of Work • Access to Effective Practices • Ensuring that students (staff) have access to effective practices in an integrated behavior and reading Multi-Tiered System of Supports • Practices are selected based on: Need, Fit, Resource Availability, Evidence, Readiness for Replication, Capacity to Implement • Support for the Practices • Ensuring that the interventions are implemented correctly with the “right people”, at the “right time”, in the “right amounts” (Implementation Fidelity)
Develop Organizational Structures Schools effectively implementation RtI Practices Successful Student Outcomes Outcomes Outcomes Inputs Develop Staff Competencies Feedback Loops
Michigan Department of Education/MiBLSi Leadership Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support for MiBLSi Who is supported? Across State Regional Technical Assistance ISD Leadership Team Provides coaching for District Teams and technical assistance for Building Teams Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support Multiple District/Building Teams Multiple schools w/in local district Multiple schools w/in intermediate district LEA District Leadership Team Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support Building Leadership Team Provides guidance and manages implementation All staff How is support provided? Building Staff All students Provides effective practices to support students Students Improved behavior and reading MiBLSi Statewide Structure of support
Successful Student Outcomes Program/Initiative (set of practices that are implemented with Fidelity) Staff competency to support students/families with the selected practices Organizational capacity to support staff in implementing practices with fidelity Capacity Competency Leadership Implementation Drivers Implementation Drivers Ability to provide direction/vision of process Adapted from Fixsen & Blase, 2008
Leadership • Building Leadership Teams • Coordinate and mage the implementation process at the building level • District Level Leadership • Provide direction/vision for the practices and allocation of resources to enable the Capacity and Competency drivers to be in place.
Building Leadership Content on MiBLSi Website miblsi.cenmi.org
Organizational Capacity • Information (guides, manuals) • Resources • Tools, forms, materials • Evaluation • Screening of students • Progress monitoring • Fidelity of implementation
Staff Competency • Training • Specific sessions with formal activities designed for skill development • Coaching • Ensuring transfer from training to practice • On-site skill development, enhancing the skills through prompting and reinforcement • Technical Assistance • An expert with specific technical/content knowledge provides information to address an identified need with customized solutions.