Vs. Attending a Different Training as a Site Team

... we were invited to attend the Arizona High Achievement for All (AHAA) Institute. Because our school did not meet the State Performance Plan for Indicator 4 (students with IEPs being suspended- expelled too often) and/or Indicator 5 (students with IEPs being in the general education classroom less than 40% of the day or placed out of school)…

General Education Special Education All Staff New Methods and Strategies All staff will be working towards the same outcome… …helping all students improve their behavior and academic achievement, but especially students with IEPs.

Training Outcomes – Year 1 Identify faculty beliefs about teaching and learning. Implement site training to address teaching and learning belief system barriers. Create an Individualized Accommodation Plan to assist learners with special needs. Initiate behavioral data collection and analysis to determine areas of concern. Create a Check In/Check Out intervention to combine with Accommodation Plans. Arizona High Achievement for All (AHAA)

AHAA Training Outcomes Year 1 Contd. Establish AHAA Team Meetings at least twice a month to design staff trainings, analyze data, progress monitor interventions, and review action plan. Provide staff development for school-wide implementation of evidence-based practices on handling behavior problems without disrupting the flow of instruction, removing, or suspending. Develop and maintain an Implementation Team Portfolio to compile specific data on site efforts to alter and sustain practices related to teaching and office discipline.

Training Outcomes – Year 2 Identify faculty belief system barriers about behavior and methods of overcoming those barriers to handle problem behavior. Implement site training to address behavior belief system barriers. Provide staff development for school-wide implementation of implement evidence-based practices on handling behavior problems without disrupting the flow of instruction, removing, or suspending. Expand Check In/Check Out and Accommodation Planning to become an ongoing feature of the schools interventions to maintain LRE and reduce office discipline problems. Arizona High Achievement for All (AHAA)

AHAA Training Outcomes Year 2 Contd. Develop effective individualized behavior plans for treatment resistant individuals. Continue AHAA Team Meetings at least twice a month to design staff trainings, analyze data, progress monitor interventions, and review action plan. Expand the Implementation Team Portfolio to continue compiling second year data on site efforts to alter and sustain practices relating to teaching and behavior support.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Two year commitment with intact ongoing teams. No substitutions allowed. Training schedules are project specific and require full team attendance every session. Attendance is random, often with no sequence or commitment beyond a day or two. Absenteeism or substitutions frequently occur.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Implementation Teams consist of 5 specific members: School Principal Special Education Teacher General Education Teacher Two other Teacher Leaders Random attendees are selected to attend.

Name of other teacher leader Name of principal Name of special education teacher Name of general education teacher Name of other teacher leader

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Receive information and strategies regarding evidence- based practices at each session with planned implementation expectations. Receive information on practices (may be evidence-based or just personal favorites of the presenter). No formal plans regarding implementation.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Report on your schools progress to your cohort of attending Implementation Teams, the CSPD Project Coordinator, and the Presenter to receive feedback. No reporting of actual progress to attendees.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings No or minimal accountability at school site regarding implementation.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Specific documentation of implementation, analysis, and evaluation requirements is completed in a timely manner. No on-going implementation documentation requirements.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Implementation team decides how to present new information to staff. Staff development occurs between training sessions with documentation of presentations and evaluations. Principal makes decisions on how information is shared. Informal sharing occurs non-systematically depending on attendees preference. No documentation or follow-up occurs.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings Change in practice is analyzed with evidence documented in the Implementation Team Portfolio. Typically, no objective evidence is gathered and evaluated to document success of team efforts.

Implementation Team Attendance at CSPD Trainings Site Team Attendance at Other Trainings CSPD Trainings are created to teach school teams how to begin and maintain sustainable change in practice for specific areas of need at their school sites. No information on sustainable change is given.

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