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Teachers in Command: Our Journey to Equity and Excellence Valley Heights Schools USD 498

Agenda ● Demographics/ Beginning of our Journey ● Overview of MTSS ● Assessments ● Sorting & Analyzing Data ● Practice Sorting & Analyzing Data ● Progress Monitoring & Interventions

Rural district in Marshall County ● Valley Heights serving the Waterville and Blue Demographics Rapids communities ● 2A Classification ○ 2018-2019 Enrollment: 448 ● Low SES 48% Free/Reduced ○

Our Journey Begins... Year 1 - 2014-2015 ● Blue Rapids building placed on watch KLN/Tonya Phillips implemented plan of improvement ● Year 2 - 2015-2016 KLN/Tonya Phillips continued with support ● ● Judy Rockley helped overhaul PreK-6 ELA Curriculum - Journey’s - Implemented ○ Also initiated reading MTSS structuring TASN Application Rejected ●

Year 3 - 2016-2017 ● TASN Application Accepted TASN led PreK-12 MTSS Structuring and Training ● ○ Minimum intervention requirements being met ○ Intervention - ELA only ● K-6 focused on Journey’s Instructional Plan/Guide 7-12 focused heavily on Scope & Sequence for all area ● ● Became a part of Kansas Reading Roadmap (KRR) ● Followed MTSS Process during K-6 Summer School (Tier 3)

Historical Look cont. Year 4 - 2017-2018 ● Continued TASN PreK-12 MTSS Support PreK-12 implemented Social Emotional Curriculum ● Implemented math interventions ● ● Heavy focus on intervention requirements ● Fidelity to Scope & Sequence Interim Assessments ● Explored Math Curriculum ● ● Selected Rigor and Relationships for KESA Goals

Historical Look cont. Year 5- 2018-2019 ● Implemented Eureka Math PreK-6 ● Began drafting KESA Rigor and Relationship Goals ● Implemented Behavior Interventions ● Created Community Coalition

What is MTSS? Multi-Tier System of Support ● Evidence based, system-wide practice to support rapid response to academic, behavioral, and social emotional learning. https://www.ksdetasn.org/mtss/overview

Questions to ask What do my students need to know and ● be able to do? Yourself ● How will I know if they have learned it? What will I do if they have not learned it? ● ● What will I do when they have learned it?

MTSS Goals Benchmarking Goals ● 80% Tier 1 ● 15% Tier 2 ● 5% Tier 3

Ongoing district-wide PD ● MTSS Process at Formation of DLT, BLT & Site ● Council Valley Heights ● Hired MTSS Coaches Full Action Plan Implemented ● Revised Building Level Core ○ Beliefs & Norms ○ Created Curriculum Protocols Benchmark Assessments to begin ● Data Collection ○ AimsWeb (Fall ‘15) ○ FastBridge (Spring ‘17) myIGDIs (Spring ‘17) ○

Action Plan

Building Core Beliefs

Curriculum Protocols - Elementary

Curriculum Protocols - Jr Sr High

MTSS Process - ● Universal Screener Gathering Data ○ FastBridge ● Diagnostic Assessments Quick Phonics Screener ○ Phonological Awareness Skills ○ Test (PAST)

We have the ● Intervention Times data--now what? ● Grouping/Sorting Interventions ● Monitoring Progress ● ● Change

Schedule Elem

Schedule 7-12

Grouping/Sorting - Elem

Grouping/Sorting - 7-12

Your Turn! 1. Select either the elementary or high school Elementary Quadrant Sort data sample. Elementary Sample OR Data 2. Sort the data into the correct quadrants. 3. Discuss Elementary Sample aReading Data a. Why did they fall into that quadrant? What does this say about how they read? b. What type of instruction is needed? High School Quadrant Sort High School Sample Data

Who? ● Progress What? ● Monitoring after ● When? ● Why? Implementing How? ● Interventions

Change Groups are fluid ● 4-7 data points ● ○ Which direction are the data points/trend line going?

Long-Term Data: Student Snapshots

Longitudinal Study

Contact Information Robert Green, Elementary Principal rgreen@valleyheights.org Justine deBoer, K-6 MTSS Reading & Math Coach judeboer@valleyheights.org Emily Gunn, 7-12 MTSS Reading & Math Coach egunn@valleyheights.org Megan Martin, 7-12 At Risk Coordinator/MTSS Behavior Coach mmartin@valleyheights.org