Kalamazoo Public Schools MiBLSi, A District-Wide Initiative 03-04 to present

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Kalamazoo Public SchoolsMiBLSi, A District-Wide
Initiative 03-04 to present

• Cindy Green
• Patricia Steinert-Otto
• Linda Campbell
• Dorr Catherman

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CHALLENGES

• Middle city, urban, diverse, high needs
  population
• Integration with
• other initiatives NDK, CTAC, PLC, Rdg First
• magnet programs
• Time
• For Professional Development
• Substitutes

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CHALLENGES

• Helping everyone to understand
• Change is hard for some people
• Believing that all children can learn
• Collaborating to problem solve
• Changing job roles

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NEW SKILLS NEEDED

• Shared leadership
• Collaboration
• Problem solving
• Team work

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STRENGTHS

• Administrative support
• Highly skilled, motivated ancillary staff
  providing
• Coaching, encouragement
• Training
• Feedback, evaluation
• The Kalamazoo Promise
• District Leadership Team

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KPS - MiBLSi

• Pre-MiBLSi SMILE grant to one elementary school
  (01-02)
• Cohort 1 one elementary school (03-04)
• Cohort 2 four elementary schools (04-05)
• Cohort 3 five elementary schools (05-06)
• Middle School initiative for 2 middle schools
• Cohort 4 2 elementary schools and another
  middle school (06-07)
• High School initiative just beginning now
• Whats left to add?

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What are we doing in KPS?

• Learning communities
• Sharing information
• Inservices
• Collaborating as a universal educational system
• Seeking information
• Collaborating

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KPS - MiBLSi

• Coaches
• Psychologists District coach
• Reading First Literacy coaches Reading First
  coordinators
• Training
• MiBLSi training by cohort
• Reading First training
• Teacher Reading Academies
• Non Reading First schools
• Evaluation
• DIBELS and SWIS summaries
• SETs, Phases of Implementation assessment

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Supporting Social Competence, Academic
Achievement and Safety
School-wide Support
OUTCOMES
Supporting Student Behavior
Supporting Decision Making
PRACTICES
DATA
SYSTEMS
Supporting Staff Behavior
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Decisions Based on Data

• Benchmark Data
• Behavior Team weekly
• Grade Level Reading - monthly

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Fourth Grade Box Plots
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Teacher X
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Next Steps

• What is going on in your classroom to ensure that
  
• end of year progress is going to be made?
• What support do you need to ensure that end of
  year progress is going to be made?

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Behavior Team

• Monday Morning Meetings
• review the last weeks SWIS data
• review year to date SWIS data/compare to goals
• develop mini behavior plans
• monthly incentive
• miscellaneous

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Grade Level Meetings

• Monthly meetings focus on reading
• Analysis of Progress Monitoring data
• includes attendance, behavior, family events and
  plans to improve
• Evaluate interventions
• Make changes

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Building PBS Team

• Meet weekly
• Team decisions based on data
• Review matrix
• Monthly school assemblies
• Lunch/recess -difficulties

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New ways to document interventions from Edison
Elementary

1. Using the DIBELS Individual Student Performance
   Profiles
2. An Individual Intervention Plan (in process)

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Fifth Grade ORF
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We are PURRR-fect

• Kalamazoo Promise
• Seventy-five new students in K - 5
• Eleven new classroom teachers
• Six 1st year teachers
• Rebuilding the culture

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Kindergarten PSF

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Kindergarten NWF

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First Grade NWF

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Third Grade ORF
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Pillars of Success

• District-Wide CHAMPS
• SWIS
• Team Implementation Checklist
• Principals and coaches
• The Randy Sprick effect
• Central administration support
• Lincoln CHAMPS model district rollout

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SWIS
 
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CHAMPS 1st Grade Teacher
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CHAMPS 3rd Grade Teacher
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Innovation and Change

• Bus behavior intervention
• Referrals higher at the end of the day
• The use of a behavior room (in-school suspension)
• Resource allocation and redefining roles
• Change job descriptions for ancillary staff

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Innovation and Change (cont.)

• The BEP at a middle school
• Kalamazoo Wraps, another initiative supporting
  PBS in the schools
• Training and retraining
• Celebrations
• Principals EOY Celebration!
• Coaches meetings
• Ancillary staff gatherings

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Cohort 4

• 2 elementary schools just started in January with
  MiBLSi training
• Behavioral momentum
• Coaches and trainers (internal and external) are
  more and more knowledgeable and effective

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High Schools

• Data in place SWIS integrity
• H.S. Leadership team meetings
• Visit to Illinois PBS High Schools
• Dedicated external coach providing support with
  internal coaching
• PD plan for team training beginning in May and
  just before school starts next year

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KPS MiBLSi future goals

• Data (e.g., SWIS, DIBELS) in all schools
  consistently used for school-wide, group and
  individual decision making
• Merge with main database (Student Plus)
• SWIS and the BEP
• SWIS facilitator within district
• Systems in place in all schools implementing
  MiBLSi Sustainability

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KPS MiBLSi future goals (cont.)

• Additional classroom management emphasis
• Decrease student suspension and expulsion
• RtI procedures finalized and used throughout
  district
• Improve student achievement for all students

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KPS MiBLSi Initiative

• Patricia Steinert-Otto
  Steinert-OttoPL_at_kalamazoo.k12.mi.us
• Linda Campbell CampbellLM_at_kalamazoo.k12.mi.us
• Dorr Catherman CathermanGD_at_kalamazoo.k12.mi.us
• Cindy Green greenc_at_kalamazoo.k12.mi.us