Helping Students Become Better Readers with Social Skills Necessary for Success

Steve Goodman

sgoodman@oaisd.org

Funded through OSEP State Personnel Development Grant and Michigan Department of Education- Office of Special Education

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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)

Develop Organizational Structures

Develop Staff Competencies

Schools effectively implementation RtI Practices

Successful Successful Student Student OutcomesOutcomes

Outcomes OutcomesInputs

Feedback Loops

Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support for MiBLSi

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Across State

Multiple District/Building Teams

All staff

All students

Multiple schools w/in local district

Who is supported?

How is support provided?

Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support

Provides coaching for District Teams and technical assistance for Building Teams

Provides guidance and manages implementation

Provides effective practices to support students

Improved behavior and reading

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Multiple schools w/in intermediate district

Provides guidance, visibility, funding, political support

MiBLSi Statewide Structure of support

Staff competency to support students/families with the selected practices

Adapted from Fixsen & Blase, 2008

Successful Student Outcomes

Program/Initiative (set of practices that are implemented with Fidelity)

Organizational capacity to support staff in implementing practices with fidelity

Ability to provide direction/vision of process

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Leadership

• Building Leadership Teams– Coordinate and mage the implementation

process at the building level

• District Level Leadership– Provide direction/vision for the practices

and allocation of resources to enable the Capacity and Competency drivers to be in place.

Building Leadership Content on MiBLSi Website

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Organizational Capacity

• Information (guides, manuals)

• Resources– Tools, forms, materials

• Evaluation– Screening of students– Progress monitoring– Fidelity of implementation

Staff Competency

• 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.