Needed from the DISTRICT : Expanded RtI policy and framework

1. Goals: • Shared school / community effort to advance student success • Have a positive impact on student and family needs • Build an effective RTI system • Alignedstudent outcomes Tools & Inputs: • PPSD Strategic Plan • Children & Youth Cabinet • Formal relationships with community initiatives & intermediaries • Information systems and referral process (protocols and guidelines) • Performance-based contracts Outcomes: • Improved student and youth outcomes • Shared accountability, reporting, and learning • Increasingly effective community / school partnerships • Coordinated systems RtI • Needed from individual SCHOOLS: • Integrated school / community teams to review and use school data for targeted interventions • Capacity building for integrated teams for data use, decision-making, and school improvement • Ensure alignment of community partners and services with School Improvement Plans • Barriers: • Limited school-level coordination beyond the principal • Limited capacity and time for site-level coordination and ongoing planning with community stakeholders • Inconsistent access to student information • Consistency around working with existing intermediaries to coordinate school-level work • Resistance to change • Needed from the DISTRICT: • Expanded RtIpolicy and framework • Early-warning systems to target student needs and alternative interventions • Tools and process to assess school needs • Procedure to align partners with PPSD strategic plan and school improvement plans • Improved information systems and data-sharing agreements to mutually share and use individual student data • Process to evaluate and improve partnerships • Barriers: • Capacity to lead and support initiative • Clearly defined vision, procedures, communication, and roles for district, schools and community • Resistance to change IndividualSchools A BLUEPRINT for CHANGE: A District, School, and Community Partnership to Advance Youth Outcomes through Response to Intervention District Community • Needed from the COMMUNITY: • Align services with PPSD strategic plan and school improvement plans • Commitment to work as a coordinated team with other partners at individual schools • Provide and participate in integrated professional development and technical assistance • Willingness to work differently with all stakeholders • Barriers: • Access to student-level information • Desire for individual rather than team access to principals, information, other school leaders • Lack of resources for consistent assessment and evaluation of activities and impacts • Lack of trust /competition for resources among partners • Resistance to change