Videos

This video will review the evidence-based practices and processes associated with viable and sustainable multi-tiered systems of support.

MTSS represents a framework that is associated with the "how" of school improvement. This video will review 30 years of what has been learned about the "how" or effective implementation practices, processes and tools provided by the National Implementation Research Network.

Dean Fixsen will review the most important tenants of effective implementation as well as critical resources and tools.

This session will focus on the use of Data to Inform Growth and how those data are used to Inform Instruction. First, this webinar will focus on "data interpretation decision-rules" to differentiate between growth, improvement without growth and loss of improvement. Central to these decision rules is consensus (mindset) regarding how to interpret data using these decision rules. Second, this webinar will focus on "instructional decision-rules" regarding instructional decision making based on the data decision rules. LINK TO HANDOUTS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YRlQPliu1uDVqurJCff4iBUPS9MinxYW

This session will focus on how literature can help enrich children's lives as they see their own lives reflected in the pages, experience lives and stories that are different from their own, and learn to feel empathy for the characters in the stories.

The East Juniata Elementary School team who participated in the session, Effective Implementation of Academic Vocabulary Instruction and Student Discourse, and began implementation of Word Generation from fall to winter, will prepare and share a brief presentation describing and explaining their Word Generation implementation experience and outcomes. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfDWEcQ8YdgTuckVOJVqjSlM1rmxH4se/view?usp=share_link

This session will address how to write comprehensive Evaluation Reports for students referred for specific learning disabilities when using response to intervention methodologies. Participants will review how to operationalize and document contemporary approaches to responsiveness to intervention and level of performance specific to a student’s referred area of academic performance. Consideration and documentation of federally-required classroom observations and rule-out criteria (e.g., lack of instruction; other conditions; environmental / economic disadvantage; limited English proficiency) will also be reviewed. Case studies will be used to illustrated how to document all required elements of a comprehensive evaluation for specific learning disabilities.