1. Enrich. Intervene. Learn. Succeed. ISD 728 - Rogers Middle School

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

5. Our Journey

6. Refine and Strengthen C, I, A, E/I, R- (iObservation) Last year...

7. 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. RMS Program Philosophy

8. ● 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 How we started

9. ● 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

11. ● Identification process (test scores, discussion of writing sample, higher level thinking sample) ● Development of course offerings Goals and Implementation Starting with Tier One

12. ●Engineering Challenges ●Law Enforcement ●Sewing, Woodworking ●Photobooth Software Application ●Journalism Tier One Course Offerings

13. 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 Three Tiers, 1140 Students, RTI

14. 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 Targeted Enrichment/Intervention Time

15. Example of Student Schedule

16. 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 Targeted Enrichment/Intervention Time

17. ● 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 Schedule in Student System

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

19. ● 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 https://docs.google.com/a/isd728.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmjALW2WUV_sdGh1WTBOX1Rz VlAtc1JyVjA4WkFnRlE&usp=sharing Targeted Curriculum Intervention

20. ● Students are grouped and labeled by college/university ● Groups rotate through enrichments (student stay together) Example - College Schedule

21. Example - 8th Grade Level Two

22. ● 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 Tier Three

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

24. ● Student motivation ● Student understanding of philosophy ● Not graded enrichment Challenges

25. ● 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

26. ● Provide time for teachers to plan their enrichments ● How to allocate intervention time per department Things to keep in mind

27. ● Classroom impacts o improvement data from teachers ● MCA ● Motivation ● Focus is on learning ● Continuous refinement of our system Is this working for our students?

28. ● Look for ways to provide all students with choices ● Review data as PLC teams and leadership team Our Next Steps

29. Additional Questions Comments or questions may also be emailed to us.