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Onalaska High School
Response to Intervention delivered thru Professional Learning Communities
Timeline
1997-07
– School Improvement?
– School Goals
2007-08
– Coordinated School Improvement
– REACh
– School Goals
2008-09
– REACh
– PLC’s
Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals
2009-10
– Outcomes, Assessment, Accountability, Sustainability
– REACh
– PLC’s
2010-11
– PLC’s
– Sustainability
– No REACh
Transitioning our Culture
Mission – Learning for ALL
Vision – We do whatever it takes
Values: Commitments – Developing and Maintaining PLCs to ensure learning for all
– Focus on Learning
– Utilize Best Practice
– Learning by Doing
– Strive for Continuous Improvement
Caution – This is a journey, not a finished product.
Professional Learning Communities
Four Big Questions
1) What do you expect students to learn?
2) How will you know when they learn it?
3) What will do you do for students that don’t learn it?
4) What will you do with the students that have already learned it?
PLC’s continued Curriculum and Communication
– Scope and Sequence – Changes in Math, Social Studies and English
– Common Pacing and Assessments
Culture of Change – Students and faculty
– Mission, vision, values and goals
– Emphasis on learning instead of teaching
Administrative Review– Learning
– Data
– Tight versus loose leadership
EXAMPLE of REVIEW
Tier One
School Improvement Team – focus change
Report Card versus Deficiency Report
Schedule Changes
– Reduced Passing Time – Freddy 14
– 0 and 9th hour
– Testing Center
– Modified Block
Resource Time
Tier One – Continued
Privilege System
Closed campus for freshmen
Technology Differentiation
STAR Conferences – 8th / 11th grades
Breakfast Program
Collaboration looks like…
A group of people working interdependently to achieve a common goal for which they are mutually accountable.
Collaboration Schedule
EXAMPLE of Collaboration Schedule
– 2010-11 School Year
– Includes collaboration dates for:
Tier One (whole staff)
Tier Two (core teams)
Tier Three (integrated teams)
Department Chair Meetings
School Improvement Committee
Collaboration Plans
Initially developed by School Improvement Team and Administration in 2008-09
By November of 2009 Departments asked for autonomy to focus on areas of need
Submitted each month prior to collaboration time
Initial Collaboration
Examples of building provided agenda– Initially needed to work through:
Norms SMART Goals High functioning teams Group expectations
2nd Agenda – Focus on Formative Assessments– Realization of different starting points
“We can’t use common formative assessments if we aren’t using common learning outcomes.”
– EXAMPLE
Improved Collaboration
Paradigm shift from department head to collaboration leader
“Herd instinct” – some feel need to keep entire department together instead of breaking into teams
Administrative Role
EXAMPLES
Example of Science
– 10 minutes for Physical Science
– 10 minutes for Biology
Challenge of departments teaching singletons
- International Language Department
- Different Languages, different levels but similar instructional strategies
- Leads to discussion regarding best practices and assessment
- Business Department
- CPA Core Standards
- Cross-walk class activities to 21st Century Learning Standards
Professional Development
Shift from speakers to team work time
Tier 1, 2, and 3 activities
EXAMPLES
– Transition Point – February 19, 2009
– Transition Point – October 27, 2010
October 27, 2010
OHS Tier 2 Interventions
Intervention Manual
Content Study Halls
Reading Class– Started as a freshmen course, expanded to sophomore
section and junior/senior section
Double up academic hours
Team Teaching – Resource and Regular Ed Teaching Teams
Testing Center
Transitional Summer School Classes
Schedule – Allow for lateral shifts
OHS Tier Three Interventions
Intervention Conferences Targeted Literacy – Reading Class Odyssey Peer Tutoring CARE Conferences OASIS
– Alternative School
Summer Credit Recovery
Team Approach to Problem Solving
(TAPS)
Meets every Thursday for one hour
School Counselors, Associate Principal, School Nurses, School Resource Officer, School Psychologist, At-Risk Teacher
Formerly spent too much time “admiring the problem”
Two lists generated prior to meeting
1) Five minute List – Five minutes or less to ID intervention
2) More than five minutes list – More than five minutes to ID Intervention
Expectation of Action
Intervention Conference Outline
Traditionally used a CARE conference
– Problems with
Flow chart of expected steps
– EXAMPLE
Intervention Conference
- Organized and led by guidance counselor
- Invite teachers, associate principal, and sometimes school psychologist
- 15-20 minutes in length
- Share student’s strengths and weaknesses
- Follow up provided to each teacher
- EXAMPLE
Privilege List
Developed by SIC team
Focus on keeping the student in the classroom– Example of student in library
Focus on the student earning (back) privileges and motivation to monitor progress
EXAMPLE
Structured Study Halls
EXAMPLE of Structured Study Hall Guidelines
CELEBRATION of new lists
Step approach between 340 hour, commons, and study hall
Assessment Plans
Focus on Learning rather than teaching
Future emphasis on being “tight” with assessments, “loose” with teaching strategies– Underutilized during the first year
EXAMPLE
Example of AA
Change to team-based assessment plans
Odyssey
Targeted Math Intervention
– ID of Freshmen and Sophomores 2 Grade Levels Below
– Sale of program to students
Challenge of using study hall time
– Development of Privileges to increase student ownership
– This year differentiation in targeted classes with technology
Other Interventions
Freddy 14 and Passing Time
Credit Recovery and OASIS
Required Resource on ELD’s
Professional Development Opportunities
Restructuring of Resource Department
LINK Class
What needs improving
Communication among grade-level teachers
PLC Sustainability
Consistency in grading policies
Improve Assessment Practices
Develop essential learning outcomes for junior and senior level courses
THANK YOU
Peter Woerpel – High School Principal
– 608-783-4561, extension 5007
Jared Schaffner-Associate HS Principal
– 608-783-4561, extension 5003
