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Case Management: From File Folder to Inclusion Director

Mariagnes Menden, EdD Claire Kelley Lauren Ward Marilyn Baran

Session Outcomes

✦ To understand what is a vision of inclusion within Catholic Schools

✦ To understand the role of the MTSS team in inclusive Catholic Schools

✦ To understand and identify critical resources to support inclusion in Catholic Schools

Called to Inclusion

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. … Acts 10:45-46 And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Item 4 of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Statement on Disabilities states the following:

“Defense of the right to life implies the defense of all other rights that enable the individual with the disability to achieve the fullest measure of personal development of which he or she is capable. These include the right to equal opportunity in education, in employment, in housing, and in health care, as well as the right to free access to public accommodations, facilities, and services.”

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Vision

Turn and Talk

What is the vision of your school’s inclusion program?

Vision, Values and Beliefs

✦  All Children can learn

✦  Quality Assessment informs instructional practices

✦  Quality teaching makes a difference

✦  Positive relationships within the classroom maximize learning

✦  Educators must work as a team

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Building an Effective Team

✦  Who should be on it? ✦  Administrative Role ✦  Faculty with passion or background in Inclusive Education ✦  Service Providers

✦  Meeting regularly

✦  Once a week for 45 min-1 hour

✦  Structure of meetings

✦  Set goals and objectives for each meeting and long term goals

✦  Set roles and responsibilities for each meeting

✦  Take notes and share them after each meeting

✦  Create a schedule and routine for meetings

Building an Effective Team

✦  Topics for meetings ✦  Who creates the agenda? ✦  Who facilitates the meeting?

✦  Team processes: how to work with each other

✦  Create a safe environment for all voices to be heard

✦  Set common goals that all members agree to work towards

✦  Utilize strength of team members

Turn and Talk

Who is on/would be on your Teacher Team?

✦ Where do you/would you see yourselves finding time for

meetings during the workweek?

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Saint Nicholas of Tolentine MTSS Team

✦  Who: ✦  Administrator ✦  Faculty members with experience or interest in inclusion ✦  Service provider

✦  What

✦  Then (School Focus): Weekly meetings to discuss current topics for our inclusion program

✦  Now (Student Focused) Meetings: 20 minutes for various topics and 20 minutes for teachers to come in to discuss specific students

✦  Where and When

✦  Wednesday Mornings from 7:00-7:45 am

✦  Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Music Room

Saint Nicholas of Tolentine MTSS Team

✦  Meeting Agendas: ✦ Created by Dr. Menden, school principal ✦  Set out at least 1-2 days before meeting

✦ Roles and Responsibilities

✦ Note Taker ✦  Prayer Leader ✦  Time Keeper ✦ Meeting Facilitator -Inclusion Director

*Roles Change Weekly

Role of Professional Learning Communities

✦  When ✦  Wednesdays after school

✦  Who

✦  PLC’s are split into grade bands and meet in one classroom ✦  PreK-K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

✦  One faculty member of the MTSS team is in each PLC

✦  Why

✦  MTSS team members go back to relay info to faculty

✦  Work on common goals at different age ranges

✦  Collaboration time not just for the team but for the whole staff

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PLC’s using data to Inform Instruction

✦  What is the purpose? ✦ Using Data to inform instructional decisions ✦  Intentional time for collaboration

ASPIRE DATA

✦ As a PLC setting goals and changes for following school year in curriculum

✦  Example: Grades 3-4 PLC discussed Writing and Science Scores from 2016 Aspire Test ✦  Weekly Writing Initiative ✦  Science Fridays for exposure to more of reading graphs

and interpreting the data in morning work

Service Provider Support in Saint Nicholas Vision

✦  Who ✦  United Stand

✦  Provide: Counseling, Diagnostic Testing, and Parent/Student groups ✦  Member of the MTSS team

✦  Speech ✦  Minutes serviced through a student’s service plan or private insurance

✦  ABA: Applied Behavioral Analysis ✦  Minutes serviced through a student’s service plan or private insurance ✦  Member of the MTSS Team

✦  IDEA: LBS1 ✦  Minutes serviced through a student’s service plan or private insurance

✦  Title 1

✦  Students who qualify would get academic counseling through United Stand

✦  Member of the MTSS team

✦  Academic support to both the students and teachers

Behavioral Resources ✦  Brave Boys

✦  Talk about leadership, behavior, personal dilemmas, peer pressure, and school life

✦  Daily Goals: subject by subject check-ins with classroom teacher ✦  Daily Check in’s: Director of Inclusive Education ✦  Monthly meetings: Mr. O’Rourke ✦  “Color Brave Leaders”: “Color brave” means we acknowledge and

celebrate the differences among the people in our lives and in our world, and our behavior reflects that

✦  Class Dojo

✦  Free Resource ✦  Parent Connected to Classroom through messaging ✦  Teacher website ✦  Behavior tracking through points and reports available

✦  PBIS World

✦  Offers Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions and support in creating intervention plans

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Academic Resources ✦  Benchmarking Assessments

✦  AIMSweb Plus ✦  MAP Testing: Title 1 Providers ✦  Fountas and Pinnell

✦  Where to Start Word Test: Free resource online to level students ✦  Leveled Books available to purchase

✦  https://eprcontent.k12.com/placement/placement/placement_langarts_2.html ✦  K-12 Placement Tests ✦  Assessments Include: Phonics, Reading, Language, etc.

✦  Additional Resources

✦  Words Their Way: Spelling ✦  Razz Kids: Leveled Readers

✦  Offers student ability to listen to text ✦  Offers teachers an assessment tool

✦  Intervention Central ✦  RTI resources and intervention supports

Turn and Talk

What types of resources are you currently using within your building

to support both academics and behavior?

Dreaming the Possible

✦ Build capacity of faculty

✦  Building capacity of support staff (aide)

✦  Understanding resources and implementing fidelity

✦  Understanding needs of students in classroom learning decisions

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Dreaming the Possible ✦  Intentional Hiring: resumes looking for LBS1, ELL,

background or experience

✦  Understanding needs of students and splitting classrooms (academic and behavior) all students succeed

Dreaming the Possible ✦  Looking for professional growth opportunities

✦  Staying connected (social media) organizations i.e. Loyola (All Are Welcome)

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Case Management: Roles and Responsibilities

✦  Team Members Roles: ✦  Administration:

✦  Sets clear goals and direction ✦  Models practices and expectations ✦  Listens and acts

✦  MTSS Team: ✦  Teacher referral process and problem solving team ✦  School goals

Roles and Responsibilities

✦  Direction of Inclusion: ✦  Push in/Pull out Support in Classrooms ✦  Testing Accommodations ✦  Support classroom teachers in picking interventions and data

collection ✦  Support teachers through the CPS referral process and

attending IEP meetings ✦  Student Screening during enrollment process (Understanding

needs and how to best serve them in our building ✦  Case Management

Then to Now

✦ Roles started as the responsibility of faculty members on top of teaching responsibilities

✦ Now: Direction of Inclusive Education responsibility

of day to day management

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Case Management: Organization

✦  Binders: paperwork organization ✦  Tabs

✦  Saint Nicks Service Plan ✦  Medical Information ✦  IEP and Service Plan ✦  Data/Goals ✦  ABA Data, Speech Goals, IDEA (LBS1)

✦  Google Drive ✦  MTSS team google drive account that all members have access too ✦  Student folders and files ✦  Working Documents ✦  IEP reevaluation dates

Transformational Process ✦  Takes time

✦  6+ years

✦  Start with vision (Have to start somewhere)

✦  All are welcome

✦  All faculty members have had a crucial role ✦  Growth Mindset

Transformational Process ✦  Benefits are transforming: students benefit, teachers,

etc.

✦  Trial and error and learning from mistakes: makes you stronger

✦  Success stories: takes time, builds confidence, takes energy (worth it!)

✦  Professional Development

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✦  “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious….and curiosity keeps us leading down new paths.”—Disney

Questions?

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