School District of Crandon Crandon, WI How did we integrate our systems? What impact has this made? Next steps? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Jessica Keao, High School Counselor RtI Coordinator Rebecca Gerow, Elementary School Counselor RtI Coordinator/Behavior Focus Rural school district located in Northern WI.

Who are our students/community? School District of Crandon District Demographics How did we integrate our systems? What impact has this made? Next steps? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Rural School District 1,000 students 4K-12 Two Native American Tribes 100% Free and Reduced Lunch Highly supported by Administration

Who are our students/community? School District of Crandon Phases of District RtI Implementation How did we integrate our systems? What impact has this made? Next steps? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? RtI academic team (8+ years) Universal PBIS team (6 years) Merged academic and behavior (3 years) Levels of implementation vary by building level RtI Academic Team originally was called the REACH Committee.

Why integrate our systems? School District of Crandon Why did our district integrate? What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? District Administrator forced PBIS/RtI merge Defining our roles Finding a common language We were all working towards the same goal Varying opinions/experiences with merging As we started merging we realized we were looking at the same data and were doing the same things Behavior moving forward needed to do same with academics. Merge of systems not necessarily teams (elemem) Elementary experience MS/HS experience Defining Roles example: Internal vs. instruction coaching

How did we integrate our systems? Crandon Elementary School How did we integrate? What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Enhanced School-Wide Acknowledgment System Addition of Red coin for academics State Testing Sustained Universal Team Utilized fidelity tools to guide process System coaches for Behavior, Literacy, and Math Applying what we learned from behavior to academics School-wide: coin chart

How did we integrate our systems? Crandon High School How did we integrate? What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? School-wide academic and behavior goals Attendance related Test score Classroom academic and behavior goals Data team analyzing whole student data: Test scores Attendance Grades Office Discipline Referrals School-wide: coin chart

How did we integrate our systems? Crandon High School How did we integrate? What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Data team/coaches look at the whole student’s data: Test scores Attendance Grades Office Discipline Referrals Credit Recovery Employability Skills Productivity Personal Best Respect Technology **Provide handout of what the Employability Skills and Data Wall example. Need to get better at using this and talking more about it with the staff. But, the idea is to take away behaviors from the academic grade. Ex: If students do not hand work in on time it does not hurt their academic grade. Academic grades are purely based on what students know or do not know.

Crandon Elementary School What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Built capacity of more staff Creating a system that works for our school Can identify strengths and weakness of system Identifying the right students for additional interventions Increased understanding of RtI SUSTAINING A SYSTEM REQUIRES THE OWNERSHIP OF ALL STAFF Universal Practices are Key

What impact has this made? Crandon Elementary School What are our next steps? What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Enhancing Culturally Responsive Practices Personal Biases Mental Health Project/Trauma Informed Practices Community Circles/SEL Adapting team structures to meet system needs Building the capacity of others to lead key components Instructional Coaching for staff/CESA 8 Handout for explaining teams

What impact has this made? Crandon High School What impact has this made? What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? No longer use “PBIS” and “RtI” to refer to the behavior and academic. Presenting to staff as one unit, no longer separate the behavior vs. academic Has become our culture Building Leadership is “RtI” minded Has become our culture: BLT members are thinking of ways to integrate RtI practices. For example: each PLC has a homework make-up policy. ONe suggestion was if a student has 3’s and 4’s in Employability skills they can make up a test because they are making a behavioral effort. Students with 1’s and 2’s cannot.

What impact has this made? School District of Crandon Crandon, WI What impact has this made? Next steps? How did we integrate our systems? Who are we? Who are our students/community? Why integrate our systems? Contact Information: Rebecca Gerow, Elementary School Counselor gerowreb@sdofcrandon.com Jessica Keao, High School Counselor keaojess@sdofcrandon.com