Enrich. Intervene.

Learn. Succeed.

ISD 728 - Rogers Middle School

Rogers Middle School

• Part of the Elk River Area School District

• Northwest Suburb • 1,140 students and 100+ staff

membersStudent population➢ MCA➢ Diversity➢ ELL➢ SPED➢ FR

Our Journey

Our Journey

Refine and Strengthen C, I, A, E/I, R- (iObservation)

Last year...

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

● 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 HeacoxDemystifying Differentiation in Middle School, Eidson, Iseminger, Taibbi Advancing Differentiation, Richard Cash

How we started

● 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

● Identification process (test scores, discussion of writing sample, higher level thinking sample)

● Development of course offerings

Goals and Implementation Starting with Tier One

● Engineering Challenges● Law Enforcement● Sewing, Woodworking● Photobooth Software Application● Journalism

Tier One Course Offerings

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

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

Example of Student Schedule

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

● 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

● Goal: to offer enrichment opportunities for each core subject for majority of students

● PLC (grade/subject alike)- creates enrichments

Tier Two

● 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

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Targeted Curriculum Intervention

● Students are grouped and labeled by college/university

● Groups rotate through enrichments (student stay together)

Example - College Schedule

Example - 8th Grade Level Two

● Goal: offer intervention for students who need more time on a skill

● Students who could benefit from weekly time spent on a subjecto IEP knowledge, social skills, math,

number sense, reading fluency, writing, mindfulness

Tier Three

● Training and changing of philosophy with teachers

● Determining tier placement (scores, labels)

● Finding flexibility in the Tier Two schedule to accommodate interventions

Challenges

● Student motivation● Student understanding of philosophy● Not graded enrichment

Challenges

● 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

● Provide time for teachers to plan their enrichments

● How to allocate intervention time per department

Things to keep in mind

● Classroom impactso improvement data from teachers

● MCA● Motivation● Focus is on learning● Continuous refinement of our system

Is this working for our students?

● Look for ways to provide all students with choices

● Review data as PLC teams and leadership team

Our Next Steps

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