learning services ~ what’s next? gulf islands sd 64 april 25, 2013 g17 to g200
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Learning services~
What’s next?Gulf Islands SD 64
April 25, 2013
G17 to G200
NormsWhat do we want our conversation to look like?
We can all play a role in keeping each other on task....
Frank, Respectful, Constructive, Purposeful
Focus on the Focus - On Task - When everything is important... nothing is important
From Group of 17 to Group of 200!
Think about this as our “Social Contract.”... like a classroom
1957 - A Tipping PointThe first year in Canada that more people worked in service and information industries that in agriculture and industry
2013 - How are the needs different today from 1963?
Why Are we here ?
Our mission: to ensure high levels of learning for all students.
• All children can learn (at a high level, essential standards) But...
Assumptions
All students don't learn in the same way.All students don't learn at the same speed.Some students lack prior skills and knowledge.Some students lack proper behaviours.Some students have a home life that is counter-productive to academic success.
No teacher has all the skills, knowledge and time to meet the needs of all students in class/assignment.
The ShiftMy kids to Our kids - let’s provide a structure for students who may need interventions in his/her daily education
Build in time for team meetings - let’s empower the staff with tools necessary to help all children
Collectively build and agree upon essential learnings... Let’s practice and employ measurable interventions that increase student learning and achievement
Our Mission: To ensure high levels of learning for
all students
Team meetings (built into our weekly schedules
Essential standards (created in teams)
Ongoing, Consistent, Formative Assessments
Remembering Why...
Collective process to provide every child with additional time and support to learn at high levels
Not put upon us... Built by us, for us!
Making Meaning
“Student engagement is an essential component of education. When students are engaged, they are inspired to be creative and collaborative, to develop goals and passions, and to become interested and invested in their own education.”
• Farley Cannon, Maddee Nash & Lauren Utter,
• GISS Students, 2012
How do we deal with change?
How we cope with or handle change is influenced by our mindset.
Do we bring a...Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
Flexible Mindset
The Art of PossibilityLife is composed as a story... it’s all invented
With new definitions, much more is possible than we often think Giving an ‘A’
Leading from Any Chair
Response to intervention (RTI)
Access for all students
Regular monitoring
Targeted high quality instruction
Regular teacher collaboration
Tier 3
Customized
Tier 2
Targeted, Timely
Additional Time, Intensity,
Strategies
Tier 1Best, First Instruction with Universal
Access All Students & Staff Prevention • School-wide
Network of Inquiry & Professional Learning Communities
“Collaborative cultures, which by definition have close relationships, are indeed powerful, but unless they are focusing on the right things, they may end up being powerfully wrong.”
Fullan, Leading in a Culture of Change (1993)
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LearningFocus on Results
Three Essential RtI Teams
Roles & Functions
Why? the Basic PRemise
All students can learn, and deserve to learn, what is essential so that they can progress to the next grade or level.
Most students will be able to learn more than the essentials, and some students will need extra support to just learn the essential outcomes.
Can you make this guarantee to the parents
of your students?
“It does not matter which teacher your child has at our school; if your child needs extra time and support to learn at high levels, we guarantee he or she will receive it.”
Our Goal
“To create a systematic process that ensures every child receives the additional time and support needed to learn at high levels.”
What will Classroom Teachers Do?
Identify essential knowledge and skills that all students must master
Use effective proven strategies to help students learn
Develop common assessment tools
Track student progress on essential standards
Help all students learn the essentials and most students to learn additional concepts/skills
Collaborative Teacher Teams
Personal Learning Communities (PLC’s)
Meet with grade equivalent teachers, teachers with similar curriculum, or school and cross-school teams in small schools, to determine and develop essential standards and common assessments.... Use what already exists and modify it!
Meet with intervention staff and administration to discuss and formulate plans for supporting students needing extra support
Teachers commit to... Working in collaborative teacher teams
Meeting weekly in PLC’s or Networks with colleagues
Helping all students learn the essential learning outcomes
Use effective teaching strategies
Use common assessments to track student progress and effectiveness of instruction
Identify students needing additional time and support
School or Regional Leadership Team -
“Guiding Coalition” Members:
School administrators
Representatives from each collaborative teacher team
Specialized Support Staff
Primary Responsibility: To coordinate collective efforts in the school to help all students learn and master the essential learning outcomes.
Leadership team tasksAgree and Articulate VISION
Schedule and allocate resources for collaboration, core instruction and interventions in all tiers
Coordinate school wide human resources to best support instruction at all tiers, especially tier 3• Learning Services
Teacher• District Psychologist
• School Counselor• Speech & Language Pathologist
• Librarian • Curriculum Coordinators
• Educational Assistants• Community Health Services
Leadership Team commits to...
Lead school-wide behaviour expectations, including attendance, awards and recognition
Ensure sufficient and effective resources are available to provide tier 3 interventions for students needing intensive support in reading, writing, number sense, motivation, attendance and behaviour
Lead the school’s universal screening efforts to identify students needing tier 3 intensive interventions before students fail
Assist and monitor essential learning outcomes and evidence of school-wide student learning
School / Regional / District Intervention TeamMembers include:
Focus on students needing Tier 3 intensive support
To master essential learning outcomes
Address deficits in universal skills (reading, writing, numeracy)
Address chronic absenteeism, behavioural, motivational concerns
• Principal• Specialized Staff - reading, math
• Counselors • ESL, Speech, Psychologist• Learning Services Teachers
• Community Resources - public health, social workers, therapists• Librarian
The Intervention Team commits to...Determine specific learning needs of each
student needing intensive support
Diagnose cause(s) of students’ struggles in tiers 1 & 2
Determine most appropriate interventions for students
Regularly monitor student’s progress to see if interventions are achieving the desired outcomes
Revise student interventions when desired outcomes are not being achieved
Determine when special education identification is appropriate
The Role of a Team
Yes I Can
coffee
Ok. Listen up... How many of you say the heart has five
valves?
How Important is Evidence?
One surgeon to another...
be purposeful!
Need to Know
Universal screening
Assessment
Assessment for Learning ..... formative... information (Eg: DART)
Summative - the sum of what we’ve taught
Assessment WHILE Learning - Checks for understanding
Assessment AS Learning... focuses our work... with incredible results -
Where do we fall in the balance?
The Balanced Assessment Model
Cycle of RtI
Time & Structures
#1 Reason for assessment - shared learning
Carving out the time...
To discuss and agree on essential learnings
To agree on level of rigor... what will it look like when student understands
To design common assessments
To review and learn from common assessment results
To devise and implement interventions to achieve mastery
Time for collaboration
It is disingenuous for a school or district to claim that collaboration is essential for student learning, then not provide time for teacher collaboration.
Finding the time
Instruction + Time = Learning
When do we provide additional time for students to receive additional support to know, do, understand the essential learnings?
The question is not...
Should we build flexible time into our schedule?
But....
How will we build flexible time into our schedule?
RtI in the early grades
Getting people together...
Built into schedule
Dinner meetings for additional collab time
Time in lieu
Our job is to teach the kids we have.
• Not the ones we would like to have.
• Not the ones we used to have.
• Those we have right now.... all of them.
• Anonymous
Morphing our system
How will we best use our talents, our resources (time, people, $$), our ingenuity, to develop a systemic response to instruction and intervention (RtI2) that ensures all students learn?
