We know the importance of using evidence-based instruction and basing decisions on students’ individual learning rates and levels of performance. Here are 5 ways Schoolzilla supports MTSS/RTI coaches like you in achieving these goals.
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1. Help Your School(s) Align on Key Metrics and Intervention Thresholds in a Data-Driven Way
Use Schoolzilla dashboards to align on the key metrics and identify the thresholds that will serve as triggers to intervention.
As a multi-measure dashboard, Schoolzilla is a great tool to get a complete picture of the performance in your portfolio of schools. No need to track down data across multiple platforms; all your attendance, behavior, and academic data are in one place to help you and your schools set priorities in a data-driven way. In addition, Metric Zoom functionality within School Profile allows you to dig deeply into your schools’ data to see trends over time and assessment results by strand. You can also look at behavior data by location and time of day, to identify patterns across your schools.
Example: Use Schoolzilla and Metric Zoom to review schools’ improvement plans at the beginning of the year, and work with them to set up their own thresholds for intervention/early warning.
When: Annual
What: Annual planning meeting, year-in-review step back; site plans; improvement plan review
2. Track Progress Throughout the School Year to Evaluate the Impact of Interventions
In order to assess the efficacy of your schools’ interventions, it is important to regularly review school and student progress on your selected indicators.
Schoolzilla supports your cycle of inquiry (e.g., Plan-Do-Study-Act) and helps you quickly identify areas to celebrate and others that need attention. With School Profile you and your school teams can immediately see if you're meeting your goals for each key metric, find trends across different groups of students, and compare performance to last year.
You can also use Schoolzilla to ask questions and build conversations around equity. Two resources to help you lead these conversations are 1.) 8 essential questions you can quickly answer using Schoolzilla and 2.) an example of how you can use Schoolzilla to review chronic absence trends.
Example: Use Schoolzilla to assess the impact of a school-level initiative to increase attendance on Fridays
When: Every 4-8 weeks
What: School leadership team meetings, principal meetings; academic intervention team meetings; behavioral/PBIS implementation team meetings
3. Use Student Groups to Create Tiers and Monitor Intervention Success
Using the Our Students dashboard and student intervention group functionality, you can identify and create groups or tiers of students who need extra support or differentiated instruction based on criteria or triggers you set across a range of indicators (including assessments, attendance, and/or behavior). You can then track your groups/tiers over time and share these data with students’ assigned classroom teacher.
Learn more about student intervention groups here.
Examples: Reading intervention group for students below grade level on fall screening results; behavior intervention group for students with 2 or more referrals at the end of the first quarter; Tier 2 student group
When: As needed or based on schedule set by administration (e.g. every other week)
What: Meetings with your administrators, intervention teams, counselors, and/or teachers to align on interventions and progress
4. Keep a Pulse on Students That Have Specific Needs
Using Views in Our Students, you can set criteria for different student outcomes so you are always up-to-date on the students you serve. Views are dynamic and the students who meet the criteria will update nightly, as your data refresh.
Views are particularly helpful for continuous screening across multiple at-risk indicators (e.g., MAP reading below 50th percentile, CBM below 25th percentile, office discipline referrals).
Example: Use to identify students who need more frequent data review (e.g. students with MAP Reading below 15th percentile)
When: As needed or based on schedule set by administration (e.g. every other week)
What: School leadership team meetings, grade-level team meetings, student support team meetings, school or student celebrations
5. Gather a Holistic View of an Individual Student
With Schoolzilla, you can quickly gather a holistic picture of an individual student’s progress using Student Profile. You can use the dashboard for your own work, to identify root causes for challenges or celebrations. You can also efficiently prepare for meetings with individual students, family members or other interventionists. The ability to upload student photographs and have them display on the dashboard allows you to keep students in the center of the conversation.
Example: Use the student profile in a meeting with parents to discuss how attendance may be impacting their child’s academic performance
When: As needed, likely 2-3 times/week
What: One-on-one meetings with students or parents