Enrich. Intervene. Learn. Succeed.

ISD 728 - Rogers Middle School

Rogers Middle School

• • • ➢ Northwest Suburb 1,140 students and 100+ staff members Student population MCA ➢ ➢ ➢ ➢ Part of the Elk River Area School District Diversity ELL SPED FR

Our Journey

Last year...

Our Journey Refine and Strengthen C, I, A, E/I, R- (iObservation)

RMS Program Philosophy

Rogers Middle School Intervention/Enrichment program provides opportunities for students to understand the essential learning outcomes of the curriculum, including providing students with additional support and enrichment within the school day.

How we started

● ● ● Formed a professional learning community consisting of 10-12 committed staff members, led by our district gifted and talented coordinator Focused on gifted and talented and high achieving students (classroom and schoolwide) Book studies Making Differentiation a Habit, Diane Heacox Demystifying Differentiation in Middle School, Eidson, Iseminger, Taibbi Advancing Differentiation, Richard Cash

Goals and Implementation Starting with Tier One

● ● ● Goal: to enrich students whose needs were already being met in the classroom Committed staff members Start framework for building wide implementation of RTI Enrichment/Intervention schedule

Goals and Implementation Starting with Tier One

● ● Identification process (test scores, discussion of writing sample, higher level thinking sample) Development of course offerings

Tier One Course Offerings

● Engineering Challenges ● Law Enforcement ● Sewing, Woodworking ● Photobooth Software Application ● Journalism

Three Tiers, 1140 Students, RTI

Tier One- Top scoring 25%, Gifted and Talented and High Achieving Students, enrichment course offered Tier Two- 65%, rotating curriculum schedule, with intervention opportunities Tier Three- 10%, targeted intervention course AVID

Targeted Enrichment/Intervention Time

Wednesday/Thursday Mornings ● 70 minutes total a week ● Clustered in groups of 5-30 students based on tier and intervention needs ● Rotating A (advisory) and E (enrichment) schedule in our system

Example of Student Schedule

Targeted Enrichment/Intervention Time

Students will experience one of the following: ● Targeted curriculum intervention ● Rotating discipline extension activity (math, English, science, allieds, social studies, AVID strategies) ● Enrichment/intervention course or AVID

Schedule in Student System

● ● ● Students clustered in college groups Teachers are assigned the college group for attendance purposes for each week Tier 2 rotates to teachers, tiers 1 and 3 and AVID stay in one course all quarter

Tier Two

● ● Goal: to offer enrichment opportunities for each core subject for majority of students PLC (grade/subject alike)- creates enrichments

Targeted Curriculum Intervention

● ● ● ● Teachers receive intervention time 1-5 times per quarter Reteach essential learning outcomes, data based Teachers identify students and inform them to report to their room or PLC partner https://docs.google.com/a/isd728.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmjALW2WUV_sdGh1WTBOX1Rz VlAtc1JyVjA4WkFnRlE&usp=sharing

Example - College Schedule

● ● Students are grouped and labeled by college/university Groups rotate through enrichments (student stay together)

Example - 8th Grade Level Two

Tier Three

● ● Goal: offer intervention for students who need more time on a skill Students who could benefit from weekly time spent on a subject o IEP knowledge, social skills, math, number sense, reading fluency, writing, mindfulness

Challenges

● ● ● Training and changing of philosophy with teachers Determining tier placement (scores, labels) Finding flexibility in the Tier Two schedule to accommodate interventions

Challenges

● ● ● Student motivation Student understanding of philosophy Not graded enrichment

Things to keep in mind

● ● ● Multiple staff want the same student at the same time (priority departments, communication) Number of staff available to teach weekly Staff only needing intervention time with students one of the two days

Things to keep in mind

● ● Provide time for teachers to plan their enrichments How to allocate intervention time per department

Is this working for our students?

● ● ● ● ● Classroom impacts o improvement data from teachers MCA Motivation Focus is on learning Continuous refinement of our system

Our Next Steps

● ● Look for ways to provide all students with choices Review data as PLC teams and leadership team

Additional Questions

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