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Intensive Data Teams for Students Who Don’t RespondWorking with Intensive Interventions and Data Based Individualization-National Center for Intensive Intervention
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Session Objectives
• Getting to Know You • All about Haslett• Background and Data• Research on Intensive Intervention and Data
Based Individualization• Discuss Intensive Data Analysis Team Process• Reflections and Next Steps• Discussion and Questions
Who are you?
• Google Forms
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Who are we?• Haslett Public Schools serves 2700 students in grades
kindergarten through twelve• Following graduation, 95 percent of Haslett students continue
their education at a university, college, or academy. Haslett Public Schools is comprised of five school buildings as follows:
• • Wilkshire Early Childhood Center - Grades K-1• Murphy Elementary School - Grades 2-5• Ralya Elementary School - Grades 2-5• Haslett Middle School - Grades 6-8• Haslett High School - Grades 9-12
What’s Up In Haslett?
• MTSS/RTI Focus• Successful MTSS Implementation - coaching at all
buildings• Data days (3 times a year) - primary focus on Tier 1 and 2
problem solving• Effective building, classroom, and student level data
analysis• Early Warning System Data and Processes for High
School and Middle School• Instructional training K-12 including Kevin Feldman, Anita
Archer, EWS (secondary), MiBLSi, Visible Learning (Hattie), Reading Apprenticeship, George Batsche, Mark Shinn
Why Intensive Data Analysis Teams?
• Kids who just don’t respond
• Data can be misleading to look averages….hides some failing kids
• Most needy students have less problem solving support and less adequate targeted resources
• Need a process and time for Tier 3 students in special education to more closely focus on aggressive growth
Looking at Research Based Practices http://www.intensiveintervention.org/
Compelling Statistics
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U.S. elementary-age children with learning disabilities (LD) below 20th percentile on
comprehension64%
High school students with LD years below grade level in reading 3.4 years
Fraction of high school students with LD who drop out ¼
Percentage of students with LD with paid employment, two years postsecondary 46%
Why? Primary and Secondary Prevention Often Are Not Enough
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Primary
prevention
Low-salt diet Stress reduction
Secondary
prevention
Intensive
interventio
n
Inexpensive diuretics
Beta-blockersACE inhibitorsOther novel, patient-specific treatments
The Medical Analogy: High Blood Pressure Treatment
“Virtually all children and youth with disabilities, including those with very serious learning problems, are helped sufficiently by the core curriculum with co-teaching, modifications to the core instructional program, or other such supports.”
Why? Unfounded and Naïve Beliefs About Teaching Kids with LD
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Fuchs, Fuchs, & Vaughn, 2014, p. 14
Unfounded and naïve belief
More Help
Validated programs are not universally effective programs; 3 to 5 percent of students need more help (Fuchs et al., 2008; NCII, 2013).
More Practice
Students with intensive needs often require 10–30 times more practice than peers to learn new information (Gersten et al., 2008).
Research Says…
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• Little empirical research demonstrates specific effective intervention programs for the lowest 3 percent to 5 percent of readers.
• Intervention practices are typically based on expert recommendations from a body of research.
• Monitoring progress is essential to determine impact and intensity required for individual students.
Research Says….
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Intensive intervention addresses severe and persistent learning or behavior difficulties. Intensive intervention should be: • Driven by data • Characterized by increased intensity (e.g.,
smaller group, expanded time) and individualization of academic instruction and/or behavioral supports
What is Intensive Intervention?According to the National Center for Intensive Intervention
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Is…• Individualized based on
student needs • More intense, often
with substantively different content AND pedagogy
• Comprised of more frequent and precise progress monitoring
Is Not…• A single approach • A manual• A preset program• More of the same Tier
1 instruction • More of the same Tier
2 instruction
What Intensive Intervention…
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What is NCII’s Approach toIntensive Intervention?
• Data-Based Individualization (DBI) is a research-based process for individualizing and intensifying interventions through the systematic use of assessment data, validated interventions, and research-based adaptation strategies.
• DBI is a systematic method for using data to determine when and how to provide more intensive intervention.
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• Students with disabilities who are not making adequate progress in current instructional program
• Students who present with very low academic achievement and/or high-intensity or high-frequency behavior problems (typically those with disabilities)
• Students in a tiered intervention system who have not responded to secondary intervention programs delivered with fidelity
Who Needs Intensive Data Analysisusing DBI approach?
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NCII’s approach to
Intensive Intervention:
Data-based Individualization
(DBI)
Intensification
Evidence
Planning• Goals• Agenda• Data…from school wide to student• Dashboard using EWS data
Data Day
Reflections and Questions
Our Journey with: Intensive Data Teams
• To have a team look at data for our special education population on a regular basis
• To problem solve around the existing data• To progress monitor each student’s growth• To do fidelity checks of interventions being used• To monitor if students are correctly placed to
respond effectively
Our Team’s Goals
Building awareness looking at school wide data and Early Warning System data
• What are the patterns and trends in our data?
• What does this say about systems?
Beginning with the Big Picture
Early Warning Indicators:
ABC’s of Disengagement
Attendance
Behavior
Course Failure
http://www.betterhighschools.org/ews.asp
Does your whole school problem solve around special education students or is it left up to the special education staff?What do you do with the most intervention resistant students?
Research Says: Categories of Practice for Organizing & Planning Intensive Intervention
Change Dosage or
Time
Change the Learning
Environment to Promote
Attention and Engagement
Combine Cognitive
Processing Strategies with
Academic Learning
Modify Delivery of Instruction
(Vaughn et al., 2013)
Structures / Systems for Next Year
• How do we collaborate when we have concerns about these intensive students?
• How can we use data days to better help us inform instruction?
• What other supports are needed to effectively teach all students?
Reflections:
• If you followed the plan, blame the plan, not yourself
• Trust the data to guide you• Switch skills as needed (and make sure the PM
system still works for the new skill!)• Review the plan (and your fidelity to it) at
every meeting• Keep good records
Don’t take failure personally (unless you didn’t follow the plan)
• Make content changes• Give more explicit explanations using clear, concise language• Repeat the explanation using the same language and ask students to replicate it• Ask simpler questions that link to the explanation• Model until the student is ready to do the skill without you (but always involve
the student in the model)• Release responsibility to the student more slowly• Raise the number of opportunities to respond• Make sure student gives 80% correct responses• When student makes an error, provide immediate, clear, kind corrective
feedback• Increase the amount of exposure to the concepts• Break skills into smaller parts• See more resources at: http://
www.intensiveintervention.org/resource/designing-and-delivering-intervention-students-severe-and-persistent-academic-needs-dbi
Make changes…..
• Who will do it?• How long will they do it for?• What does it mean to “do it”
• Programs: implementing with fidelity? adaptations?
• Individualized, non-program instruction: what exact activities are being done? what materials are required? are materials easily available?
Make Plans SPECIFIC
Stick to the plan (mostly) and monitor your fidelity• Do what you agreed to do … if the plan isn’t working
and you did what you said you’d do, it’s not your fault (it’s the plan’s fault)
• Make some adjustments after the meeting (not everything can be decided in 30 minutes)• Keep track of those!
• Track what you actually did• Are you covering everything?• How much time are things actually taking?• How many absences and missed school days have
there been?
Be Relentless• Don’t fool yourself into thinking the problem is with the data
rather than your instruction. If the scores on the graph aren’t increasing, assume the child is not learning. When PM data are collected in regular classrooms, almost all students’ graphs increase.
• Remember: You are this student’s best chance for meaningful academic improvement this year. You can be the person who changes his/her path of development and his/her chances for quality of life in and after school.
• Be prepared to set high expectations; work hard to plan and deliver motivating and well-designed instruction; and push the student to work hard on his/her own behalf.
Pam Jones, Director of Special EducationHaslett Public [email protected]
Nancy TheisMTSS Implementer/School PsychologistIngham [email protected]
Diane NewmanAssociate Principal, Haslett High [email protected]
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