Classwide Intervention Classwide Intervention An intervention provided to

Classwide Intervention

Classwide Intervention An intervention provided to all students in a grade level. Used when less than 60% of students in a grade level are on-track. Or, put another way, when 40% or more of students are at-risk.

Classwide Data 16% 41% 43% VS 7% 8% 85%

Classwide Intervention IS… IS NOT… Provided to all students Differentiation ◦ Differentiation is used to teach core standards In addition to instruction on core standards Targeted to specific skills that should have been previously learned Highly engaging (e. g. everyone does everything) Provided to only some students A Tier 2 intervention

Some Classwide Interventions Literacy ◦ PALS ◦ Re-telling ◦ PRESS ◦ Six-Minute Solutions Behavior ◦ Good Behavior Game ◦ Self-Monitoring ◦ 2 X 10 behavior KU Learning Strategies ◦ Sentence Writing ◦ Paragraph Writing ◦ Inference ◦ Paraphrasing and Summarization Math ◦ PALS ◦ Classwide Peer tutoring

Example: MS Reading

Universal Screening Data indicated 44% of students were below targets in 6 th – 8 th grade. 6 th grade – 38% 7 th grade – 45% 8 th grade – 43% Building leadership team decided that all grades should participate in a classwide intervention focused on fluency. In addition, students who were less than 95% accurate were also provided additional intervention in decoding skills.

Intervention Description INTERVENTION Teachers choose content text each day. SUPPORT FOR TEACHERS During PLCs, instructional coaches taught teachers each of the interventions. Teachers choose either Duet Instructional coaches modeled reading, Echo reading, or interventions. Partner reading each day. Frequency: Every day (6 classes per day) Duration: 5 minutes per class (30 min. /day) Volunteer teachers were recorded doing each intervention. Videos were shared via PLCs.

What you may hear…

Classwide Intervention Some students’ time will be wasted. We see all students make gains on skills taught during classwide intervention.

Classwide Intervention Some students say it’s boring Did you select relevant and interesting material? Can you differentiate within the intervention? Are teacher-student relationships strong? What about peer support for school?

Classwide Intervention You should do that, too! Why don’t we just improve Tier 1? Students in Grade X today need to be supported, too.