Kalamazoo Public Schools MiBLSi Initiative Challenges and Successes

1. Kalamazoo Public SchoolsMiBLSi, A District-Wide Initiative 03-04 to present Cindy Green Patricia Steinert-Otto Linda Campbell Dorr Catherman

2. CHALLENGES • Middle city, urban, diverse, high needs population • Integration with: • other initiatives – NDK, CTAC, PLC, Rdg First • magnet programs • Time • For Professional Development • Substitutes

3. CHALLENGES • Helping everyone to understand • Change is hard for some people • Believing that all children can learn • Collaborating to problem solve • Changing job roles

4. NEW SKILLS NEEDED • Shared leadership • Collaboration • Problem solving • Team work

5. STRENGTHS • Administrative support • Highly skilled, motivated ancillary staff providing: • Coaching, encouragement • Training • Feedback, evaluation • The Kalamazoo Promise • District Leadership Team

7. KPS - MiBLSi • Pre-MiBLSi – SMILE grant to one elementary school (01-02) • Cohort 1 – one elementary school (03-04) • Cohort 2 – four elementary schools (04-05) • Cohort 3 – five elementary schools (05-06) • Middle School initiative – for 2 middle schools • Cohort 4 – 2 elementary schools and another middle school (06-07) • High School initiative – just beginning now • What’s left to add?

8. What are we doing in KPS? • Learning communities • Sharing information • Inservices • Collaborating as a universal educational system • Seeking information • Collaborating

9. KPS - MiBLSi • Coaches • Psychologists; District coach • Reading First Literacy coaches; Reading First coordinators • Training • MiBLSi training by cohort • Reading First training • Teacher Reading Academies • Non Reading First schools • Evaluation • DIBELS and SWIS summaries • SETs, Phases of Implementation assessment

10. Supporting Social Competence, Academic Achievement and Safety School-wide Support OUTCOMES Supporting Student Behavior Supporting Decision Making PRACTICES DATA SYSTEMS Supporting Staff Behavior

11. Decisions Based on Data Benchmark Data Behavior Team – weekly Grade Level Reading - monthly

12. Fourth Grade Box Plots

13. Teacher X

14. Next Steps • What is going on in your classroom to ensure that end of year progress is going to be made? • What support do you need to ensure that end of year progress is going to be made?

15. Behavior Team • Monday Morning Meetings • review the last week’s SWIS data • review year to date SWIS data/compare to goals • develop mini behavior plans • monthly incentive • miscellaneous

16. Grade Level Meetings • Monthly meetings focus on reading • Analysis of Progress Monitoring data • includes attendance, behavior, family events and plans to improve • Evaluate interventions • Make changes

17. Building PBS Team • Meet weekly • Team decisions based on data • Review matrix • Monthly school assemblies • Lunch/recess -difficulties

18. New ways to document interventions from Edison Elementary • Using the DIBELS Individual Student Performance Profiles • An Individual Intervention Plan (in process)

19. Fifth Grade ORF

20. We are PURRR-fect Kalamazoo Promise • Seventy-five new students in K - 5 • Eleven new classroom teachers • Six 1st year teachers • Rebuilding the culture

21. Kindergarten PSF

22. Kindergarten NWF

23. First Grade NWF

24. Third Grade ORF

25. Pillars of Success District-Wide CHAMPS • SWIS • Team Implementation Checklist • Principals and coaches • The “Randy Sprick” effect • Central administration support • Lincoln CHAMPS model & district rollout

26. SWIS

27. CHAMPS 1st Grade Teacher

28. CHAMPS 3rd Grade Teacher

29. Innovation and Change • Bus behavior intervention • Referrals higher at the end of the day • The use of a behavior room (in-school suspension) • Resource allocation and redefining roles • Change job descriptions for ancillary staff

30. Innovation and Change (cont.) • The BEP at a middle school • Kalamazoo Wraps, another initiative supporting PBS in the schools • Training and retraining • Celebrations • Principals EOY Celebration! • Coaches meetings • Ancillary staff gatherings

31. Cohort 4 • 2 elementary schools just started in January with MiBLSi training • Behavioral momentum • Coaches and trainers (internal and external) are more and more knowledgeable and effective

32. High Schools • Data in place – SWIS integrity • H.S. Leadership team meetings • Visit to Illinois PBS High Schools • Dedicated external coach providing support with internal coaching • PD plan for team training beginning in May and just before school starts next year

33. KPS MiBLSi future goals • Data (e.g., SWIS, DIBELS) in all schools consistently used for school-wide, group and individual decision making • Merge with main database (Student Plus) • SWIS and the BEP • SWIS facilitator within district • Systems in place in all schools implementing MiBLSi; Sustainability

34. KPS MiBLSi future goals (cont.) • Additional classroom management emphasis • Decrease student suspension and expulsion • RtI procedures finalized and used throughout district • Improve student achievement for all students

35. KPS MiBLSi Initiative • Patricia Steinert-Otto Steinert-OttoPL@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us • Linda Campbell CampbellLM@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us • Dorr Catherman CathermanGD@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us • Cindy Green greenc@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us