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District and Building Implementation of PS/RtI: Reports from the Field

District and Building Implementation of PS/RtI: Reports from the Field. South Woods Elementary School, St. Johns Co. – Middle Sigsbee Elementary School, Monroe Co. – Mid./Sm. http://floridarti.usf.edu/. St. Johns Presenters.

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District and Building Implementation of PS/RtI: Reports from the Field

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  1. District and Building Implementation of PS/RtI: Reports from the Field South Woods Elementary School, St. Johns Co. – Middle Sigsbee Elementary School, Monroe Co. – Mid./Sm.http://floridarti.usf.edu/

  2. St. Johns Presenters Scott Sherman, Senior Director for Accountability and Intervention Services & District Liaison to PS/RtI Project Members of South Woods Elem. School-based Team: Dr. Brian McElhone, Principal David Morell, Student Intervention Coordinator Teri Evans, School Psychologist Beth Hardcastle – PS/RtI Project Regional Coordinator

  3. Monroe Presenters Rob Taylor, RtI District Coordinator, K-12 Reading/Language Arts Program Specialist & District Liaison to PS/RtI Project Members of Sigsbee Elementary School-based Team: Lynly Hill, Kindergarten Teacher Lori E. Smyth, ESE Teacher - Pre-K – 5 Kristin Cruz, PS/RtI Coach Kelly Justice, PS/RtI Project Regional Coordinator

  4. Florida Problem Solving/Response to Intervention Project PS/RtI North Region PS/RtI Regional Coordinator 2 DA RtI Specialists PS/RtI Central Region PS/RtI Regional Coordinator 2 DA RtI Specialists nDA Region 1 nDA Region 2 nDA Region 3 nDA Region 4 nDA Region 5 nPS/RtI Pilot Districts PS/RtI South Region PS/RtI Regional Coordinator 2 DA RtI Specialists

  5. Project Infrastructure • Partners • RtI/TLC • Just Read, Florida! • FCRR • Statewide PBS • Office of Early Learning • Activities • Statewide Training-Completed 2 years • Demonstration District Training-Competed 2 Years • District RtI Plan Development-66 of 67 Districts • Statewide Training of Trainers Institutes • Principal Leadership Training

  6. Focus of Year 1 and 2 Training • Consensus Development • Infrastructure Development • Tier 1 • Evaluating Impact of Core Instruction on Diverse Groups of Students • Developing Strategies to Increase Impact of Core Instruction • Tier 2 • Evaluating Impact of Tier 2 on Groups of Students • Evaluating Impact of Tier 2 on Core Performance • Developing Effective Tier 2 Interventions and Linking with Core Instruction

  7. This Presentation • Overview of State Consensus and Implementation Data • District Specific Demographics and Relevant Data • District and School-level RtI Infrastructure • Achievements and Outcomes • What We Have Learned • Questions and Audience Interaction

  8. Goal 4 Indicator

  9. Goal 4 Indicator

  10. South Woods Elementary School St. Johns Co. School DistrictMiddle Size Focus: Increasing Instructional Time

  11. St. Johns School District

  12. South Woods Elementary

  13. RtI Core Team Members • Principal • Assistant Principal • Intervention Coordinator • Guidance Counselor • School Psychologist • District Curriculum Coordinator • Speech and Language Pathologist

  14. RtI Infrastructure • RtI Professional Development for the Staff-One on One training for superstar results • Resource Menu- Instructional Materials and Resource Staff • Data Base • Professional Development for the Core Team • Consensus-Student Success, Teacher Support

  15. Increasing Instructional Time • Tutoring- Afterschool and Saturday School • Attendance-Raising Parental Awareness, decreasing the number of truant students (15 or more absences) • Behavior-Preventing Student Behaviors from escalating to the point of loss of instruction

  16. Tutoring • Afterschool Tutoring Available to Third-Fifth Grade • 125 Additional Instructional Hours=25 Days • Saturday School Available Fourth & Fifth Grade • 32 Additional Instructional Hours=6.4 Days • Total 157 Additional Instructional Hours=31.4 Days • Smaller Student/Teacher Ratios Intervention Staff

  17. Attendance • New Attendance Procedures Implemented • Procedures Include- Personal Phone Call with each absence, Earlier Truancy Interventions and Home Visits • 7-10 Absences 105-97-8% Decrease • 11-15 Absences 62-50-20% Decrease • 15+ Absences 40-16-60% Decrease

  18. Attendance

  19. Attendance Continued

  20. Attendance

  21. Behavior Prevention and Early Intervention • Whole Group Guidance offered during resource • Outside Speakers • School-wide review of Behavior Expectations with Transportation • Data Sharing with Transportation • Data review with RtI Core Team • Areas of need identified by RtI team (Bus, Disrespect)

  22. Behavior-Prevention and Early Intervention

  23. Suspensions 69% Decrease

  24. Suspensions Continued 35% Decrease 2 Students accrued 28%

  25. Instructional Gains

  26. Percent Meeting High Standards

  27. Percent Meeting High Standards

  28. Sigsbee Elementary School Monroe County School DistrictMiddle/Small Size http://sig.monroe.k12.fl.us/

  29. MCSD SES INFO 09-10

  30. MCSD Commitment to the PS/RtI Project MCSD had Goals at the onset of the Project Academic Goals: • To reduce the # of Black and Hispanic students scoring a L1 or L2 on FCAT by 10% (thus reducing the achievement gap) • Reduce the number of third grade retentions by 10%

  31. MCSD Commitment to PS/RtI Project Behavioral Goals: • Reduce the number of out of school suspensions and discipline actions for ESE students • Reduce overrepresentation of minority groups in ESE

  32. MCSD Commitment to PS/RtI Project District DLT • Deputy Superintendent • Director of Student Services • Reading, Math, Behavior and ESE Program Specialists • Director of Accountability • School Principal • RtI Coaches • PS/RtI Project Coordinator

  33. MCSD Commitment to PS/RtI Project District Supports PS/RtI Project: • Professional development schedules, locations • Data Collection • Data Disaggregation and Dissemination • Time Commitment • Cooperation

  34. Sigsbee Elementary School-Based PS/RtI Leadership Team • Team Members & Roles • Frequency of Meetings: • Every other Tuesday, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. • Additional meetings when necessary • Meeting Focus: • Consensus, Infrastructure, Implementation • Tier 1, 2 & 3 Problem Solving • School-Wide, Classroom and Individual Student Data Analysis

  35. Establishing consensus, infrastructure, and implementation of PS/RtI • Building Consensus • Faculty Meeting Presentations • RtI SharePoint Site • Information on PS/RtI placed in Teacher’s Lounge • Weekly Update emails on PS/RtI Implementation and Resources • Making PS/RtI part of school culture • Making the process “teacher friendly” • Infrastructure Development • Problem Solving Forms • Classroom Data Graphs • Data Meeting Structure • Master Schedule – adding Reading Club • Class lists developed using data • Trainings – CBM’s, graphing, PS process and Data Analysis • Implementation of PS/RtI • BYOG meeting • Standard Treatment Protocol for Reading Club • Tier 1, 2 and 3 Problem Solving Team • Whole staff involvement in the process

  36. Success! • Consensus • Strong SBLT Consensus • Created Staff Consensus • Infrastructure • Classroom Data Graphs • Harcourt Assessment Team • Implementation • Ensuring Core is at least 80% effective • Tier 2 Service Delivery – Reading Club, STP • Strong, unified PS/RtI Team

  37. Outcomes • Data • Tier 1 & 2 –Reading, Math, Behavior • Tier 3 – Math CBM’s

  38. Kindergarten Reading DataBeginning of the year – August 2008

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