A District Model for Integrated RtI Systems Dawn Miller Shawnee Mission School District Shawnee Mission, KS [email protected]Steve Goodman Michigan’s Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative (MiBLSi) [email protected]miblsi.cenmi.org 2012 National PBIS Leadership Forum Rosemont, IL
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A District Model for Integrated RtI Systems Dawn Miller Shawnee Mission School District Shawnee Mission, KS [email protected] Steve Goodman Michigan’s.
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Durable implementation of behavior and academic Response to Intervention (RtI) focuses on developing structures of support to ensure fidelity and successful student outcomes. This session will describe the critical features of a "scaled-up" district model for integrated behavior and academics. Examples from Michigan and Kansas will be provided.
Session Objectives• Learn of critical components for structuring
organizational systems to support implementation of RtI
• Understand the importance of sustaining implementation efforts through a district vs. school building approach
• Understand the logic of scaling up an integrated behavior and academics within a district approach
Why an integrated model of Response to Why an integrated model of Response to Intervention?Intervention?
Why an integrated model of Response to Why an integrated model of Response to Intervention?Intervention?
• Both are critical for school success
• Share critical feature of data-based decision making
• Both utilize three tiered prevention model
• Both incorporate a team approach at school level, grade level, and individual level
• Models of integrated behavior and reading supports produce larger gains in literacy skills than the reading-only model
High quality academic instruction (e.g., content matched to student success level, frequent opportunity to respond, frequent feedback) by itself can reduce problem behavior
Children who fall behind academically will be more likely to find academic work aversive and also find escape-maintained problem behaviors reinforcing
(McIntosh, 2008; McIntosh, Sadler, & Brown, 2010)
Why a District Approach?Why a District Approach?Why a District Approach?Why a District Approach?
• Unit of implementation is at the building level
• Unit of support is at the district level (to develop local implementation support capacity)
District-wide Approach
• Efficiently organize/distribute resources, technical assistance, & professional development opportunities
• Establish district-wide policy to guide efforts & increase accountability
• Centralize & streamline action planning and decision making
• Allow district administrators to provide reminders and acknowledgements to maintain school efforts
• Collect, summarize, and analyze information/data on-going basis to guide decision making
• Invest in and establish behavioral/reading expertise and competence
District-wide Approach (cont.)
• Give priority to identification, adoption, and sustained use of evidenced-based practices
• Focus their attention on prevention-based approaches to behavior and reading
• Provide opportunities for school to learn from and support each other’s successes and challenges
District-wide Approach (cont.)
Michigan Example
http://miblsi.cenmi.org
What is MiBLSi?What is MiBLSi?
A statewide structure to create capacity for an integrated Behavior and Reading Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) that can be implemented with fidelity, is sustainable over time and utilizes data-based decision making at all levels of implementation support
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)
Logic of MiBLSi• Emphasis is on developing local implementation
capacity
• Partnership between ISD and Local School District focuses on shared ownership and accountability around implementation of an integrated MTSS model
• Schools/Districts will be supported through stages of implementation rather than through a training sequence
• Goal: Schools/Districts implement MTSS practices with fidelity supported by infrastructure the promotes continuous improvement and sustainability
Why we need to do something different…
• Schools do not always get to criteria for fidelity of implementation.
• Schools do not always maintain implementation efforts
• Supporting a school based participation model cannot be scaled through MiBLSi
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 Cabinet and Cabinet and
Implementation Implementation TeamTeam
LEA District LEA District Cabinet and Cabinet and
Implementation Implementation TeamTeam
Across State
Multiple ISD/LEA Teams
All staff
All students
Multiple schools w/in local district
Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support, and implementation supports
Provides coaching and TA for LEA and/or ISD Teams
Provides guidance and manages implementation
Provides effective practices to support students
Improved behavior and reading
ISD Cabinet and ISD Cabinet and Implementation Implementation
TeamTeam
ISD Cabinet and ISD Cabinet and Implementation Implementation
Cabinet Leadership TeamCabinet Leadership TeamPurpose: provide direction/vision for the practices and allocation of resources to enable the Capacity and Competency drivers to be in place. The term leadership refers to the function of leadership rather than an individual’s position within the organization.
Membership: Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, Directors, (those responsible for programming at the building level)
Guided Notes for District Meeting
Implementation Support TeamImplementation Support TeamPurpose: The purpose of the Implementation Support Team is to plan for conditions that make implementation of effective practices with fidelity both easy and durable.
Membership: Cabinet Liaison, MTSS coordinator, other members who have knowledge and skillsets in both the MTSS practices and implementation supports.
Constant Tension of Three Factors regarding implementation
Resource Resource AllocationAllocation
Implementation Timeframe
Implementation Quality
How Fast Should We Go???
Developing Individual Staff Competencies
• 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.
Intensity of Supports
from K. Blase, 200929
Stages of Implementation Applied at District Level
• Implementation is not an event
• A mission-oriented process involving multiple decisions, actions, and corrections
Stages of ImplementationFocusFocus StageStage DescriptionDescription
Exploration/Adoption
Decision regarding commitment to adopting the program/practices and supporting successful implementation.
Installation Set up infrastructure so that successful implementation can take place and be supported. Establish team and data systems, conduct audit, develop plan.
Initial Implementation
Try out the practices, work out details, learn and improve before expanding to other contexts.
Elaboration Expand the program/practices to other locations, individuals, times- adjust from learning in initial implementation.
Continuous Improvement/Regeneration
Make it easier, more efficient. Embed within current practices.
Process for “Quick Sorting” Schools into Categories of Support
Criteria for identifying completion of the stages of Implementation
District
Model Schools
Universal Supports
Model Schools
Targeted/Intensive Supports
Scale-Up Schools
Targeted/Intensive Supports
Scale-Up Schools
Universal Supports
Embedded Stages within Embedded Stages within District Implementation of RtIDistrict Implementation of RtIEmbedded Stages within Embedded Stages within District Implementation of RtIDistrict Implementation of RtI