kalamazoo public schools miblsi, a district-wide initiative 03-04 to present cindy green patricia...
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Kalamazoo Public SchoolsMiBLSi, A District-Wide Initiative
03-04 to present
Cindy Green
Patricia Steinert-Otto
Linda Campbell
Dorr Catherman
CHALLENGES
– Middle city, urban, diverse, high needs population
– Integration with: • other initiatives – NDK, CTAC, PLC, Rdg First • magnet programs
– Time• For Professional Development• Substitutes
CHALLENGES
– Helping everyone to understand– Change is hard for some people– Believing that all children can learn– Collaborating to problem solve– Changing job roles
NEW SKILLS NEEDED
• Shared leadership
• Collaboration
• Problem solving
• Team work
STRENGTHS
– Administrative support– Highly skilled, motivated ancillary staff
providing:• Coaching, encouragement• Training• Feedback, evaluation
– The Kalamazoo Promise– District Leadership Team
KPS - MiBLSi• Pre-MiBLSi – SMILE grant to one elementary
school (01-02)• Cohort 1 – one elementary school (03-04)• Cohort 2 – four elementary schools (04-05)• Cohort 3 – five elementary schools (05-06)• Middle School initiative – for 2 middle schools• Cohort 4 – 2 elementary schools and another
middle school (06-07)• High School initiative – just beginning now• What’s left to add?
What are we doing in KPS?
• Learning communities• Sharing information• Inservices• Collaborating as a universal
educational system• Seeking information• Collaborating
KPS - MiBLSi• Coaches
– Psychologists; District coach– Reading First Literacy coaches; Reading First
coordinators
• Training– MiBLSi training by cohort– Reading First training – Teacher Reading Academies– Non Reading First schools
• Evaluation– DIBELS and SWIS summaries – SETs, Phases of Implementation assessment
SYSTEMS
PRACTICESDAT
A
SupportingStaff Behavior
SupportingStudent Behavior
OUTCOMES
Supporting Social Competence, Academic Achievement and Safety
SupportingDecisionMaking
School-wide Support
Decisions Based on Data
Benchmark Data
Behavior Team – weekly
Grade Level Reading - monthly
Fourth Grade Box Plots
Teacher X
Next Steps
• What is going on in your classroom to ensure that
end of year progress is going to be made?
• What support do you need to ensure that end of year progress is going to be made?
Behavior Team
• Monday Morning Meetings– review the last week’s SWIS data– review year to date SWIS data/compare to
goals– develop mini behavior plans
• monthly incentive
• miscellaneous
Grade Level Meetings
• Monthly meetings focus on reading
• Analysis of Progress Monitoring data– includes attendance, behavior, family events
and plans to improve
• Evaluate interventions
• Make changes
Building PBS Team
• Meet weekly
• Team decisions based on data
• Review matrix
• Monthly school assemblies
• Lunch/recess -difficulties
New ways to document interventions from Edison
Elementary
1. Using the DIBELS Individual Student Performance Profiles
2. An Individual Intervention Plan (in process)
Fifth Grade ORF
We are PURRR-fect
Kalamazoo Promise
• Seventy-five new students in K - 5
• Eleven new classroom teachers
• Six 1st year teachers
• Rebuilding the culture
Kindergarten PSF
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Kindergarten NWF
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First Grade NWF
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Third Grade ORF
Pillars of SuccessDistrict-Wide CHAMPS
• SWIS• Team Implementation Checklist• Principals and coaches• The “Randy Sprick” effect• Central administration support• Lincoln CHAMPS model & district rollout
SWIS
CHAMPS 1st Grade Teacher
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ODRs
CHAMPS 3rd Grade Teacher
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ODRs
Innovation and Change
• Bus behavior intervention
• Referrals higher at the end of the day
• The use of a behavior room (in-school suspension)
• Resource allocation and redefining roles
• Change job descriptions for ancillary staff
Innovation and Change (cont.)
• The BEP at a middle school
• Kalamazoo Wraps, another initiative supporting PBS in the schools
• Training and retraining
• Celebrations– Principals EOY Celebration!– Coaches meetings– Ancillary staff gatherings
Cohort 4
• 2 elementary schools just started in January with MiBLSi training
• Behavioral momentum
• Coaches and trainers (internal and external) are more and more knowledgeable and effective
High Schools
• Data in place – SWIS integrity
• H.S. Leadership team meetings
• Visit to Illinois PBS High Schools
• Dedicated external coach providing support with internal coaching
• PD plan for team training beginning in May and just before school starts next year
KPS MiBLSi future goals
• Data (e.g., SWIS, DIBELS) in all schools consistently used for school-wide, group and individual decision making – Merge with main database (Student Plus)– SWIS and the BEP– SWIS facilitator within district
• Systems in place in all schools implementing MiBLSi; Sustainability
KPS MiBLSi future goals (cont.)
• Additional classroom management emphasis
• Decrease student suspension and expulsion
• RtI procedures finalized and used throughout district
• Improve student achievement for all students
KPS MiBLSi Initiative
• Patricia Steinert-Otto [email protected]
• Linda Campbell [email protected]
• Dorr Catherman [email protected]
• Cindy Green [email protected]