Sunday, January 13, 2013

Ongoing Progress Monitoring System

I am currently a Literacy Coach in a fantastic urban school; however, when I was brought in 4 years ago, it was struggling. When I arrived, it was an "F" school. Right now, we are a rising C! Over the years, I have created and adjusted our intervention systems to meet our students' ever-increasing data. We have moved from 1 minute fluency checks to increasing stamina. As a coach, the best lesson I can share is to make sure you have a system in place to address intervention and ongoing progress monitoring. Without a system in place, there will be no monitoring. Inspect what you expect. Here is a sample of our school's latest system.
We have Teacher/Interventionist data chats every six weeks. I noticed that teachers and interventionists just don't meet to discuss their data points. The reasons are varied, but for the most part, they don't have the time to formally meet. So, we arranged for this to take place on Wednesday afternoons. Each grade level meets with their corresponding interventionist. Administration, coaches, the school counselor, and social worker attend. We have any forms needed on hand to be sure that there are no excuses as to why paperwork isn't completed. Each person fills it out on the spot. We discuss each type of intervention, differentiated instruction, any new data, behavior, and attendance. We also review previous action steps to be sure students do not fall through the cracks.
What systems do you have in place for RTI? You may purchase the entire system on my Teachers Pay Teachers site: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ongoing-Progress-Monitoring-System-and-Trackers

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