Unstoppable

What a school year it has been! I am bursting with excitement over the results I am seeing in schools. Take a look!

Want to know the secret behind these results? Targeting instruction to student needs. Yep - that's it!

1. Find out what students need

2. Give it to them in the ELA block

3. If needed, provide more of it each day

What these schools are doing:

• targeting instruction to the lowest skill deficit

• grouping across the grade level

• placing every student in a group taught by an adult

• using evidence-aligned intervention programs

• responding to student data by adapting the effective programs

• using staff flexibly to blur lines between general education, special education, EL, and gifted

• increasing the amount of time in skill-based instruction through aligned intervention support

What these schools are not doing:

• making students sit through instruction on things they already know or don't have the pre-requisites to learn

• asking teachers to manage multiple groups in their classroom

• asking students to work independently while the teacher is with a small group

• implementing with fidelity programs with no track record of effectiveness

• sticking to rigid staff titles and roles

• accepting low performance

In other words, these schools are implementing the key components of MTSS.

Want results like these for your school? Learn how MTSS can function as the framework for reading improvement in my new book MTSS for Reading Improvement and consider joining our Facilitator Collaborative this fall.