2017-2018 Student Services Effectiveness Report

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NISD will increase the number of students reading on or above grade level in grades K‐3.

NISD will increase opportunities, participation and performance in the area of Advanced Academics.

To increase academic success of students within the Performance Based Monitoring Analysis System.

To support campus instructional programs by enhancing the curriculum and resources in order to improve overall learning experiences for students and the campuses will show academic progress that will place them in the 1st Quartile.

Student Services Department Overview

Federal Program Compliance and Budget Marta Smith - Federal Programs Specialist

Title I Part ATitle IITitle I Part D, Subpart 2Title IIITitle IVIDEA BIDEA B-PreschoolMigrant SSASchool Health and Related Service (SHARS) BillingMedicaid Administration ClaimsSpecial Allotment Monitoring Programs (SAMP) -

Special Education Micah Gierkey - Director of Special EducationStacey Parker - Special Education Supervisor

Kris Kelley- Special Education SupervisorMichelle Hancock - Special Education CoordinatorStacey White - Child Find Coordinator

State Performance Plan IndicatorsEvaluation and Identification (IDEA)ARD Compliance and TrainingIEP DevelopmentPBMASDue ProcessSpecialized InstructionTransitioneSPED ManagementSupervise and Evaluate all assessment and related service

personnelSHARS BillingSpecial Olympics

Student Services Department Overview

Student ServicesSuzie McNeese, Ed.D. - Director

Jennifer Bailey - District RTI FacilitatorCynthia Elliot - PRS Facilitator/Teacher

Deanne Colley - Early Childhood CoordinatorRuth Anne Beagle - Dyslexia Facilitator

Compensatory EducationSummer SchoolResponse to InterventionDyslexia 504Foster CareMcKinney-VentoPregnancy Related ServicesPreK/Family InvolvementHomeboundFoster

Guidance and CounselingJamie Farber - Director

Naomi Walker- Truancy CounselorTeana Coffman- DAEP Counselor

Career/Graduation PlanningTruancyTranscriptsCIS and Community StorehouseOne Voice One Choice, Real TalksCareer FairGuidance LessonsSocial Emotional Awareness ProgramsCrisis Training504 FacilitationSuicide PreventionNavianceCommunity Service Hours

Student Services Department Overview

Health ServicesTricia Atzger-John- District Lead Nurse

Campus Coordinator of Student Health and WellnessInfectious Disease ReportingAED UpdatingBus Driver and Staff TrainingCPR Program Manage Nursing Substitute Training and SystemScreen TeamsHealth Care Plans and 504SHACImmunization MonitoringHealth ReportingSHAC

Student Services Executive OfficeAnn Sayre- Administrative Assistant

Department BudgetingDEICAfter School Enrichment After School Childcare (AlphaBest)Communities in Schools (CIS)Tuition PK MonitoringTEA Substitute Reporting (Time and Effort)Maintenance of EffortExpenditure ReportingNOGA/Grant Preparation and ManagementWaivers

Federal Programs Planning and Budget Monitoring

Manage grants for School-wide systems of support to Title I, Part A identified campuses as follows:

1. Prairie View Elementary2. Seven Hills Elementary3. Clara Love Elementary4. Hatfield Elementary5. Gene Pike Middle 6. Chisholm Trail Middle 7. Justin Elementary

Manage funds district wide federal grants allocated by Title II, Title III, Title IV, and High Priority Focus grant for Clara Love.

Managed district billing and training of Random Moment Time Study (RMTS), Student Health and Related Services (SHARS), and Medicaid Administrative Claiming (MAC)

Monitor Special Allotment and Monitoring Program (SAMP) pic codes for student services

SHARS Revenue FYE 2017

Cost Report Settlement FYE 2014 $ 686,200

SHARS Revenue FYE 2018

Cost Report Settlement FYE 2015 $ 880,331

Student Services At A Glance

Special Education Effectiveness

• Implementation of eSTAR system has streamlined paperwork• Conducted staff development for over 2600 teachers,

paraprofessionals, administrators, evaluators, and related service personnel

• CPI TrainingInitials: 139Re-Cert: 223

• Elementary campuses have implemented PBIS with support of behavior interventionists

• iReady growth- Many campuses took the data and created specific intervention time to address specific TEKS related gaps.

• Behavior:Total number of scored plans dropped 6% from two years ago even though our overall student population has increased significantlyIncreased in scored plans at the ES (due to increased presence of BIs and RtI)7% decrease in scored plans at MS

• Successful in Due Process Findings

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District Training Sessions Conducted:• Engage - Autism Awareness & Strategies• Engage - Student Led ARD's• Engage - Managing Challenging Behavior• Engage - Specially Designed Instruction• Engage - ARD Etiquette• Engage - Data based ARD decision• Engage - Inclusion• Engage - Data Based Decisions• Engage - Grading students with IEPs• Engage - Grading students with IEPs• ESped Training• Co-teach Training • Sped Para Training• De-escalation training - Multiple campuses • Behavior TBasics - Multiple campuses • SEAC and Self-Contained PLC’s- multiple sessions • New Special Education PLC- four sessions• PBIS team training by Region XI• EShars Training• Behavior RTI at multiple campuses• Transition Meetings- all secondary campuses

Special EducationEffectiveness:

Behavior Support Successes:• Only 6 students went to elementary SEAC programs this year

compared to 15 in 2016-2017• PBIS Implemented at Beck, Hatfield, Granger, Thompson and

Schluter

Academic Successes:• Teachers are calibrating data points - DRA/QRI/Lexile, Lexia, iReady • iReady Reading Student Growth District Wide (K-8) - 121%

– Average Scale Score Gain NISD: +25 Scaled Score– 45% of Students Achieved Target – 4% Students On or Above Grade Level

iReady Math Student Growth Wide (K-8) - 99% – Average Scale Score Gain NISD: +17 Scaled Score– 39% Students Achieved Target – 4% of Students On or Above Grade Level

• Transition meetings held between campuses April-May • Secondary campuses are creating social skills classes and times for

students based on student need.

Student Progress Monitoring:• Teachers using Google Forms to monitor and track inclusion services • Utilizing Google for classrolls to actively monitor student growth and

support campuses (position control)• Teachers are discussing and reviewing individual student TEKS

reports for math and reading.• Two presentations have been accepted to be presented at TCASE

July 2018• THRIVE-Cox Pilot Program to build Inclusion• Resource Fair for parents of students with disabilities• Student-Led ARDs - this year more campuses are involved

Transition:• Developed a partnership with Texas Workforce Solutions and have

students at RISE and Byron Nelson High School that are participating in weekly pre-employment training services and social skills development classes. We are developing collaborative camp programs with TWS and TCC.

• One of our RISE students ,Lauren Fairchild, was hired by the Down Syndrome Partnership as the Donor Relations Partner.

Special EducationSpecial Education 2017-2018 (Some Scores not available until August) Challenges:

1. Meeting the needs of all students and special education staff with rapidly increasing numbers

2. Meeting the needs of bilingual students who also receive special education support

3. Building trust in the process of behavior supports and/ or their SPED support staff

4. Time to train/educate all teachers/staff/administrators and paras 5. Helping teachers and administrators understand the process of teaching

content and IEPs to secondary students in special education.6. Campus administration and staff understanding legal requirements of IDEA

and TEA regarding assessment and eligibility for services, the special education process and considering LRE (the continuum of services)

7. Opportunity for our special education teachers to collaborate with their grade level and/or content area specialists - on campus and across the district.

Guidance and CounselingEffectiveness:

Career Planning:

Counselor Participation in Texas Oncourse Academy28 Self-Paced ModulesCan earn 16 badges50% high school counselors earned 16 badges36% middle school counselors earned 16 badges

All 8th grade students complete their personal graduation plans in either a College and Career Readiness course (CCR) or AVID

All 9th-12th grade students meet one on one with their counselor for academic planning

First year all 5th grade student entered their own courses in HAC

80% of all students are enrolled in an advanced academics course

Academic Course Planning

Naviance Class of 2018

Naviance Class of 2018

Challenges Expressed by One Voice, One Choice Students

Social Emotional Learning

Challenges of Counselors

Health Services EffectivenessProject Adam - Campus Cardiac Emergency

Response Teams (Thompson ES, Pike MS, Wilson MS, OLC) *Goal is to be a Heart Safe District in 2018/2019

Asthma 411 - Stock Albuterol guidelines for persons experiencing respiratory distress (Ready to roll out in August 2018)

Vision Screening - 11,515 completed (578 referred for professional follow-up care, 326 received treatment)Hearing Screening - 11,319 completed (135 referred for professional follow-up care, 31 received treatment)Spinal Screening - 3,898 completed (83 referred for professional follow-up care, 13 diagnosed with scoliosis)

Data Collection - streamlining health conditions in eSchool to display student acuity vs sole

health conditions (created a pie chart for type I diabetes if you want to show an example, Student Services team drive, Health Services Reports folder - look

@ sheet 7 on the 2017/2018 Medical Alerts file)

Clinic substitutes - recruiting licensed nurses through Human Resources employment listing;

new documented training processes for new recruits

Monthly Monitored Services

Immunizations - electronic parent notification for students requiring 7th grade immunizations for

2018/2019 school year using Cognos report from Data Services through Google/Autocrat

Monitored Medical Alerts-3122 monitored2459 Asthma, 370 EpiPens, 214 Seizures, 73

Diabetes Type I, 6 Diabetes Type II

Health Services

ChallengesClinic resources - electronic medical

record with interactive parent portal to enhance parent communication regarding immunization requirements, clinic visits and medication needs; clinic substitute access to electronic medical record

Clinic space - lack of space to provide privacy during medication administration, medical treatments or conversation; more secure design for storing medications in the clinic (currently all cabinets are keyed alike in the clinics)

Emergency planning - nurse training for mass casualty events (attending School Emergency Triage Training program at NASN; NISD Safety & Security purchased 82 SWAT-T tourniquets for nursing)

Spinal screening - new screening guidelines for 2018/2019 school year (girls at age 10 and again at age 12; boys at age 13; students will no longer be screened according to grade level)

Student Services RtIEffectiveness• Addition of RtI District Lead Facilitator, Jennifer Bailey• eSTAR implementation• Ongoing campus training and support provided by RtI facilitator• Created and updated NISD RtI documents• Identifying district resources for interventions (Tier 1/Tier 2/Tier 3)• Identifying skill deficits for targeted interventions (elementary)• RtI: Behavior- Flow chart, Pyramid of behavior interventions, common data tracking forms• RtI: Behavior- campus support from BI’s (elementary)• Attended RtI Conference by Solution Tree (adding secondary to training in 2018-2019)• Presented DLT sessions• Presenting Engage sessions (Summer 2018)• Presenting RtI Institute (Summer 2018)• Created and published NISD RtI brochure

Student Services: Response to Intervention

New and updated RtI district documents:• Parent brochure• RtI website for staff (NISD website)• Pyramid of Interventions (elementary, secondary,

behavior)• RtI Flow chart (behavior)• RtI updates included in Coordinator newsletter to

campus administrators• RtI exit criteria recommendation for EOY 2018

(elementary)• Skill-based intervention plans (PK-12)

RtI Support to Campuses

RTI TOTAL

3082 DISTRICT

Pre-K Enrollment Effectiveness

• Increase Pre-K enrollment by 56% in two years

• Midday transportation• Addition of three new Pre-K

programs at Lakeview, Haslet, and Curtis in two years

Challenges• Space and availability for

program growth• Cost effectiveness of midday

transportation

Student Services Pre-K Growth

2017-2018 2018-19 (Projected Start)

2017-2018 EOY Pre-K Results

504 and Compensatory Education

504eSTAR streamlined 504 data and allows more immediate reporting and access for student accommodations

eSTAR will streamline to Edugence for immediate teacher access to student accommodation plans

Compensatory EducationAt Risk Academic Support Teachers:

Byron NelsonNHSEaton

At Risk Counselor DAEP50% Intervention Specialists (STAR Teachers)Campus Tutors for At Risk StudentsSSI Math, SSI Reading, STAAR Math, English STAAR, Practical WritingParent Resource Center (PRS)ACP

Summer School Elementary660

Secondary 405

AlphaBestRoanoke

LovePeterson

AlphaBest Enrollment

Campuses:2017-2018: All Elementary with exception of Seven Hills.

2018-2019: Seven Hills and Curtis will both have AlphaBest.

In which of the following areas have you noticed an increase in your child(ren)'s interest or growth since attending AlphaBEST? (Please select ALL that apply.)

AlphaBest Parent SurveyIn which of the following areas have you seen improvement in your

child(ren) since attending AlphaBEST? (Please select ALL that apply.)Below are several aspects of your AlphaBEST experience. Please let us know

how satisfied you are with each aspect. - Safety of your child in the program

After School Enrichment

2017-2018- Increased from 4 after school enrichment options to 8 enrichment providers.

2018-2019 - Currently have 10 with the addition of a second spanish program and a piano program.

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