Districts and, even the schools within them, often vary in which types of interventions are running at a given time, which diagnostics they are using, and how to manage, monitor and implement the intervention.
Bearing this variation and context specificity in mind, here are some suggestions for how to use Schoolzilla’s Student Intervention Group tool.
- Reading Interventions: Use Schoolzilla to identify students who are below grade level on a reading assessment. You may create different tiered group using “on grade level” scores (e.g., Tier 2 may be equal to -1 grade level below) or work with students in a certain proficiency band. You could also create grade-level groups based on reading level expectations for F&P and STEP student-level data. For example, for my Fall Reading Group, I can filter for current 1st grade students and set criteria for students with less than or equal to a level E, the common upper threshold for approaching expectations on this assessment.
- Attendance Tiers: Use Schoolzilla to flag students who are currently at-risk of becoming chronically absent. For example, you can set a threshold of between 90.5% and 93% attendance to identify students who are not chronically absent. When a student dips below the 90.5% or above the 93% attendance threshold, they will be flagged with a “Does not meet criteria” symbol, alerting you to the fact their attendance is improving or sliding down.
- On/Off-Track Indicators (the ABCs): Attendance, Behavior and Course data are some of the leading indicators of being on- or off-track to graduate in high school. Set up multiple criteria to identify and work with students who have at-risk attendance, suspensions and in-progress failing grades.
Remember: We add new metrics and connectors routinely. If you don’t see a metric or diagnostic that would be useful for your teams, please let us know.
Resources
- RtI: Tiered Instruction and Intervention in a Response-to-Intervention Model by the RtI Action Network
- Attendance: 3 Tiers of Intervention by Attendance Works
- Early Warning: A Practitioner’s Guide to Implementing Early Warning Systems by Education Northwest