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This presentation will focus on the use of peers as change agents in schools via Tier 2 peer-mediated interventions. We will discuss the various types of peer-mediated interventions, advantages and disadvantages of utilizing peers to implement interventions, and ways to troubleshoot peer-mediated interventions and promote their effectiveness. Resources will be provided so that attendees can empower their students to support their peers’ development in schools.

103. Adapting Tier 2 Social, Emotional, Behavioral Interventions to Meet the Needs of All Students This session will highlight the importance of taking the evidence-based kernels of Tier 2 interventions and adapting the adjacent malleable components of interventions to meet the meet the needs of students. Adaptations that will be highlighted include responsiveness, unresponsiveness, cultural and contextual, and age and developmental level. This problem solving system of using a few interventions well and adapting them to be the most effective for students creates an efficient Tier 2 system.

In this interactive, collaborative session, participants will work with Dr. Hadley Bachman to explore a multi-tiered, systemic approach to family engagement for promoting authentic partnerships with all families. First, participants will investigate how to create an MTSS plan for family engagement alongside school improvement planning. Next, we will discuss how families contribute to the school community as providers, receivers, initiators, co-designers, and evaluators through their funds of knowledge. Then, the presenter will introduce decision indicators for determining when the school should move to a different tier of engagement strategy. Finally, we use a simple tool to evaluate our family engagement planning.

Learn how Conemaugh Valley Elementary School moved from a failing post-Covid system into a full blown Reading and Math MTSS school in one year. Learn the steps they took to get there, the adversities they faced along the way, and the victories they've celebrated because of this sink or swim adventure! Wear your life vests please because it's extremely deep water!

This session will describe the ethical challenges inherent in the implementation of PBIS. Using the Ethics Code as a guide, the presenters will review the applicable Code standards as they apply to PBIS work in schools, including a discussion of real-life examples.

Secondary MTSS can be a challenge for districts to know where to start, what to tackle, and how to overcome the barriers inherent to installing systematized supports within a Middle and High School setting. The leadership teams from the Indiana Area School District and the Connellsville Area School District will share their journey through an interactive panel discussion embedded within a Secondary MTSS implementation workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring LEA teams or district leaders to reflect on current practices and create possible actionable items to "take-away" and support the complex systemic change that is required for development of MTSS practices an LEA. Both IASD and CASD, within the Systemic Customized Support framework and partnerships with PaTTAN and IUs 1 and 28, have implemented components of: Literacy Intervention, PBIS, PVAAS analysis, Early Warning System installation, data-driven decision making, and MTSS teaming to support improvement around academic achievement, attendance, graduation/ dropout, teacher knowledge while maintaining and increasing supportive structures for students will disabilities.

Learn about the Keystone Central School District team’s journey toward problem solving and instructional intensification to support students with the most significant literacy needs. Tier 3 team members will share both challenges and successes they have learned in their efforts to improve literacy outcomes for every student. Learn about the Keystone Central School District team’s journey toward problem solving and instructional intensification to support students with the most significant literacy needs. Tier 3 team members will share both challenges and successes they have learned in their efforts to improve literacy outcomes for every student.

Professionals from the SCASD will give an overview of their process for data-based decision making, allocation of resources, and targeting instruction for students receiving intensive reading intervention. Student progress examples will be discussed within the context of moving students from Tier 3 through the MDE process to make a determination of SLD using RtI. Discussions about how school teams can focus on matching interventions to areas of need, align instruction across the tiers, and use multiple data sources that are essential to making high-stakes decisions will be facilitated and reviewed.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ Come learn about a class-wide reading intervention for grades 2-8 that will raise the reading proficiency of your students. Lindsay implemented this class-wide intervention and her class median score of 50 words correct per minute improved to 64 words correct per minute in just 2 weeks. Come learn how you can apply this intervention in your classroom and listen as Lindsay shares her tips, mistakes, and questions as she applied research to her practice this past year. Leave with specific strategies and resources to implement this research-based intervention in your classroom.

This session will enable educators to consider and discuss culturally relevant tasks in the mathematics classroom. With this knowledge base, educational professionals will explore the importance of design and meaningful delivery of culturally responsive evidence-based practices in mathematics principles, intended to support all students within an MTSS framework. (K – 12).