1. Practice/ Intervention/ Enrichment (PIE) Time
August Leadership 2017
Christina Vitek, Edu Specialist/RtI
Anna Hatfield, Principal/Ridge Elementary
RIdge- Demographics
We provide intervention for approximately 109 students for reading and 22 students for math.

2. Welcome!
Agenda
The Whats and Whys of PIE
PIE Recipes for Success

3. No new Instruction

4. What is an I/E or P/I/E block?
A time in the school day when all new instruction stops
A time when students are afforded the opportunity to receive any necessary interventions or enrichment as needed
Rooted within RtI/MTSS frameworks and the idea of Tier II/III being “in addition to” rather than “in place of”
“Enrichment” for gifted students (old school thought that this would only occur during this time)
Thinking about it as PIE makes it meaningful and powerful for all students

5. “P.I.E.” TIME P = “Practice” (Tier I Review and Practice)
Students that did not qualify for tiered instruction, but would benefit from practice with the current content. SOL remediation/review
I = “Intervention” (Tier II and III Intervention)
Interventionists work with students in small groups providing targeted intervention (prescriptive, consistent, “back-fill” or off-grade level isolated skills, small group, monitored)
E = “Enrichment” or “Extension”
Students identified gifted or in need of curricular extensions.

7. Why do we need a P/I/E block?
ALL students need something
Students do not miss any new instruction
Interventions are used strategically to provide effective remediation of skill gaps
Provides tiered interventions as a part of an RtI framework
Opportunity for Practice, Intervention, or Enrichment

8. All of our students need something….
Reading Skills
Study Skills
Writing
Test Preparation
Spelling
Anxiety Coping Skills
Math
Social Skills
Social Studies
Anger Management
Science
Work Habits
Organization
Our Students
Mention skillstreaming as an example

9. Teachers need this too….
PIE is NOT Time to
Take a break
Answer s
Keep teaching new content
Have a Mystery Reader
Do a Holiday Project
It is those extra 30 minutes you wish you had with students!
Frequent walkthroughs and observations needed during this time along with sketched out plans

11. When will P/I/E happen?
County non-negotiable for elementary master schedules
30 minute assigned block in master schedule for each grade level
PIE block should be consistent across the grade level
Consider Exceptional Education, Speech, Gifted Resource, ESL, ITRT, Title I, School Counselor schedules to maximize
Anna talk about master schedule/dates. Communication. Title, ESL, Speech, SPED, Gifted
I start with PIE block when designing master schedule to utilize funding as best as possible- PIE from 8:25-11:25 each day

12. Partner 1: What Partner 2: Why
Is your school using PIE time effectively and appropriately?

14. Organizing the PIE Block

15. All students SHOULD benefit from this time
Data-Driven
Flexible
Student-Driven
Grade level collaboration
Resource collaboration
Grade level PIEs and School PIEs will be different!
Mention the different data types
IT typically assigns intervention groups, teachers make groups for Practice (fluid)

16. Lots of different PIE “Recipes” in HCPS
Homogeneous grouping
Using the I/E Block-ideas for leveling and switching classes
Using the I/E Block with fidelity
What our teachers are doing…
What our students are doing…
What our support staff are doing…
After students are chosen from IT to receive intervention, classroom teachers as a team form the other I/E class rolls
Teachers- small groups, review lessons from skills that caused difficulty, class novel studies/read alouds, stations
Students- Receiving exactly what they need to be successful during that time
Support Staff- Interventions- pushing into rooms , planning, IA’s small groups, ESL- Level 1’s

17. Other Important Ingredients for Success
Data, Data, Data
Master Schedule
All Chefs using the same recipe (teachers, support staff, admin, IT Team)
Interventions that work- student needs assessments
Starting early (Groups established prior school year)
Minimizing breaks in instruction
Parent Communication/Buy-In

18. Other Ingredients Continued...
SOL remediation after school hours to maximize time “filling the gaps”
Different I/E Class rosters for safety drills
Intervention Check In Day
Teacher Liaisons on IT
Teacher Check In Day
Plan when Interventionists are out sick/assessing
Grade level meeting discussion about specific students

19. At the very least, be sure your teachers are utilizing PIE in their own classrooms
Ask for volunteers to share out anything their teachers are doing. Then go into basic ideas.

20. Intervention Team (IT) Success
Who?
What?
When?
Why?
Where?
Ridge IT Agenda

21. “P” Group Activities Grouping is Data Driven: Reflex Math; Dreambox
benchmark criteria for PALS and NWEA
Preteach upcoming lessons
Small groups with multiple teachers in the room
Reading/Math Stations
PALS activities
Math fact practice

22. “P” Group Activities Math Stations - include fact practice
Spiral the curriculum (look at pacing guide)
Time to finish work (not regularly!)
3 days a week Reading practice/2 days Math
Fluency practice - Reading A to Z
Story problems
TEI items

23. “I” Interventions Tier II/III
Any intervention from the literacy, math, or low-cost/no-cost matrix
Small group counseling sessions
This is the group that will be most consistent; monitored by IT rather than teachers

24. “E” Group Activities Team Planning with Gifted Teacher STEM Projects
Children’s Engineering
Time to collect Gifted Work Samples
Research Projects
Creative Writing
PBL
NWEA Des Carte Vocabulary Preview

25. Next Steps

26. Questions? Comments? Concerns?
Let’s take this first step together!
PIE Brochure
Basic Recipes
Low Need
Average Need
High Need
Individual/Grade Level PIE forms
Class PIE Spreadsheet
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