helping students become better readers with social skills necessary for success steve goodman
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Helping Students Become Better Readers with Social Skills Necessary for Success Steve Goodman [email protected] Funded through OSEP State Personnel Development Grant and Michigan Department of Education- Office of Special Education. miblsi.cenmi.org. Two Categories of Work. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Helping Students Become Better Readers with Social Skills Necessary for Success
Steve Goodman
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
Develop Staff Competencies
Schools effectively implementation RtI Practices
Successful Successful Student Student OutcomesOutcomes
Outcomes OutcomesInputs
Feedback Loops
Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support for MiBLSi
StudentsStudentsStudentsStudents
Building StaffBuilding StaffBuilding StaffBuilding Staff
Building Building Leadership TeamLeadership Team
Building Building Leadership TeamLeadership Team
LEA District LEA District Leadership TeamLeadership Team
LEA District LEA District Leadership TeamLeadership Team
Across State
Multiple District/Building Teams
All staff
All students
Multiple schools w/in local district
Who is supported?
How is support provided?
Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support
Provides coaching for District Teams and technical assistance for Building Teams
Provides guidance and manages implementation
Provides effective practices to support students
Improved behavior and reading
ISD Leadership ISD Leadership TeamTeam
ISD Leadership ISD Leadership TeamTeam
Regional Regional Technical Technical
AssistanceAssistance
Regional Regional Technical Technical
AssistanceAssistance
MichiganMichiganDepartment of Department of
Education/MiBLSi Education/MiBLSi LeadershipLeadership
MichiganMichiganDepartment of Department of
Education/MiBLSi Education/MiBLSi LeadershipLeadership
Multiple schools w/in intermediate district
Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support
MiBLSi Statewide Structure of support
Staff competency to support students/families with the selected practices
Adapted from Fixsen & Blase, 2008
Successful Student Outcomes
Program/Initiative (set of practices that are implemented with Fidelity)
Organizational capacity to support staff in implementing practices with fidelity
Ability to provide direction/vision of process
Implementation DriversImplementation Drivers 5
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.