1. Special Education Action Team February 2011
Problem Solving Suspension Rate for Students with Special Education Disabilities- Cont.
Special Education Action Team
February 2011

2. Session Objectives Revise and Refine Problem Statements as necessary
Distribute school level data
Next steps for April meeting

3. Problem Statement Objective and Factual-not imply solutions
Include Current State and Desired State
Example:
60% of our 6th graders have received warning reports for incomplete homework as compared to 25% for 7th grade and 37% for 8th grade (current state). We would like the % of students in 6th grade to decrease by at least 20% (desired state).

4. Review Current Problem Statements
As a group revisit the problem statement that was written in January
Things to consider
Is the problem identified in measurable observable terms?
Does the statement identify both a current and desired state?
Is the statement outcome or results based?

5. Next Steps

6. PROGRESS MONITORING & INTERVENTION
End Goal
Identify
Respond
IDENTIFY
Screening
What is the problem?
FRAMEWORK FOR
PROGRESS MONITORING & INTERVENTION
Diagnostic
Why is it happening?
MONITOR
RESPOND
Evaluation
Is it working?
Intervention
What will we do about it?

7. Identify IDENTIFY Respond MONITOR RESPOND Screening Diagnostic
End Goal
Identify
Respond
IDENTIFY
Screening
What is the problem?
Diagnostic
Why is it happening?
PROBLEM SOLVING
MONITOR
RESPOND
Evaluation
Is it working?
Intervention
What will we do about it?

8. School level data

9. Now what? Engage school level teams in the process with the data
Data Driven dialogue at the school level with school data:
Predict
Observe
Infer
Write a school level problem statement
Brainstorm Root Causes/Hyphothesis