Bridging the GAPS Webinar Series

This webinar series is designed to provide instructional leaders with the essential components and practical information needed to establish an effective Problem Solving processes across the school culture.

Recommended Audience: Superintendent/Assistant Superintendents/ District Directors/ School leaders/Administrators

Session 1- Wednesday, September 9

Leading Change: The Nuts and Bolts of an Effective Problem Solving Team Approach to RTI

This session will focus on:

  • How school leaders set the course from Child Study Team practices to effective problem solving processes across the school culture
  • Determining the essential components of leadership towards a tiered approach to problem solving
  • What to consider when determining who should be a member of the problem solving team
  • Who & How to select, invite and compensate problem solving team members
  • How to develop professional training for the problem solving team
  • Essentials for establishing end goals that guide the team’s work
  • How to determine a process for identifying instructional targets and goals based on DATA
  • Leadership essentials for changing roles and responsibilities in a problem solving process
  • How utilizing technology supports and streamlines the problem solving team process to increase student achievement

View the recorded sesssion from September 9th, 2009. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/242976067

Download the PDF of the Presentation from September 9th

 

Session 2- Wednesday, October 7

Creating the Links: Defining the Skills and Strategies Needed for Effective Problem Solving Teams

A webinar session designed to focus on the critical data elements Problem Solving Teams need to make sound instructional decisions and the foundational components of a collaborative approach to team management.

  • Essentials to turning data into information for change:
    • Where to find the data? Identifying essential data needed to increase student achievement
    • How to analyze data? Looking for common trends and patterns
    • What can be done? Matching interventions to the identified problem
  • Keys to creating a collaborative problem solving team:
    • Active listening: How to Listening for the message beyond the words
    • Inquiry that enhances thinking: How to ask the “tough” questions for clarifying and probing to unlock what teachers and parents know about students that can guide the problem solving process
    • Establishing meeting protocols
    • Keys skills to meeting facilitation
      • Basic facilitation skills of managing meetings
      • Managing challenging groups
      • Following protocols
      • Guiding engaged participants
      • Getting to the end result
      • Closure techniques

 Download the PDF of the Presentation from October 7th

Session 3- Wednesday, November 11

Creating the Collaborative Consultant: Defining the role and responsibilities of the collaborative consultant

A webinar session designed to focus on the value of utilizing collaborative consultants, and real examples of how collaboration yields results for instructional improvement throughout the Problem Solving process. 

The session will focus on:

  • Logistics of collaborative consultants:
    • Who?
    • When should they work with teachers?
    • How do you document their work?
  • Consultant’s role in Progress Monitoring:
    • Identifying what skill are to be monitored
    • Strategies to monitor the intervention skill/behavior over time
    • How the collaborative consultant assists with Progress Monitoring
  • Consultant’s role in evaluating effectiveness of interventions
    • Evaluating and reviewing data with the instructional staff
    • Determining if/what changes may need to be made to intervention plans
    • Following up with instructional staff during problem solving team meetings

View the recorded sesssion from November 11, 2009. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/467873074 

Download the PDF of the Presentation from November 11th