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 StaffNew

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 Cont’d.

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 school’s interventions to maintain LRE and reduce office discipline problems.

Arizona High Achievement for All (AHAA)

AHAA Training Outcomes Year 2 Cont’d.

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 school’s progress to your

cohort of attendingImplementation 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.

to improve behavior and academic achievement for all students but

especially students with disabilities.

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