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Explore the evolution and future of ESD at Dozier Middle School. Learn about the special education services provided and the components already in place, from SMART initiatives to commercials teaching appropriate behavior. Discover our progress and mission to promote academic and social responsibility through the SMART Matrix. Our focus on data-driven decision-making ensures a safe, orderly, and inclusive school environment for all students. Join us in this living process of continuous improvement. (word count: 82)
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PAST The Evolution of ESD PRESENT FUTURE
Special Education services provided: • Severe and profoundly handicapped • EMD (self-contained) • LD (resource and self-contained) • ED (resource and self-contained) • Visually Impaired • Speech • Autistic • Tourettes • 504’s
COMPONENTSALREADY IN PLACE • SMART • STEP- UP • Positive Referrals • Power of “I” – Redo Café & Study Hall • Pyramid of Intervention • Commercials & Slide Shows that teach appropriate behavior • Employee of the Week and Instructional Leader of the Month Teachers can personalize . . . . • Student of the Week and TV Time with teacher during lunch, etc.
Our Progress Total discipline referrals • 2005-2006 school year 1350 • 2006-2007 school year 520 • 2007-2008 school year 718 • 2007-2008 school year Pilot classrooms 3
OUR MISSION Dozier’s ESD Team will facilitate the building of a systemic and comprehensive behavioral intervention model. By teaching and encouraging behaviors that will contribute to a safe and orderly environment, we will promote academic and social responsibility.
Developing School-wide Expectations-The SMART Matrix • Process • Staff top 3 discipline concerns to address • Distributed draft SMART Matrix by location for staff, including cafeteria staff, and student feedback • Compiled responses and shared results
SMART Matrix-The Pilot • Choose six 8th grade classrooms to pilot • Volunteer based on culture of our school • Everyone works from SMART Matrix • Each classroom teacher aligned classroom rules with school-wide expectations • Taught expectations (15 minutes/day) and rules on SMART Matrix • Acknowledgement system- Student input
SMART Matrix-Lessons Learned • Do not commit “assumicide”-must teach students behaviors/expectations/rules • This is just as much about adults as it is students • All staff need to acknowledge all students • Plan for acknowledgement system before beginning • Challenge: Maintain consistency with teaching and acknowledging
SMART Matrix-What’s Next • Lesson plans for staff to teach expectations • Post SMART laminated posters in classroom and nonclassroom settings • Consider adding classroom guest to matrix • Add SMART Matrix to Student Planner, School Website • Present to PTA
Data Driven Decision Making • Absenteeism • What did the data tell us? • Rate, month, antecedent • How did we intervene? • Expectation • Intervention • Supports • Outcomes
ESD…A living process • Always revising based on data and implementation • More efficient use of time • Not an add on; way to organize what we are doing for all students