J'O' Kelly Middle School: Student Success Through a Pyramid of Prevention and Intervention

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J.O. Kelly Middle SchoolStudent Success Through
a Pyramid of Prevention and Intervention

• Sara Ford, Principal
• Andrea McKenna, English Chairman
• Jennifer Raabe, Math Chairman

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J.O. Kelly Middle School
Springdale, Arkansas

• Enrollment 877
• Grade Levels 6th and 7th
• Student Demographics
• 49 Hispanic
• 38 White
• 10 Asian/ Pacific Islander
• 3 African American
• 0 Native American
• 68 Free/Reduced Lunch
• 47 English Learners
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Dream with me if you will.Can you see a school
that children want to go to, where teachers work
closely together to provide the best education
possible for ALL kids, where students succeed
academically, where adults and children work
closely together, where people smile, where the
feeling is warm and the environment is safe,
where decisions made about children are shared
decisions, where responsibility is shared, where
creativity is high, where gender and race are
just part of your uniqueness and not a barrier to
your learning, where there is an extended family
of teacher, family, community, agency, where
classrooms are exciting places to be, where
teachers are turned on to teaching, where
students are the number one concern..?
-Robert Stein
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Our Mission Kelly Middle School

• Every Day,
• Every Knight,
• College Bound

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Building Our Plan. And Making it Work

• Identify Needs
• Academic, Behavioral, Social/Emotional
• Establish Non-Negotiables
• Develop System.
• When x occurs, all students will receive services
• Prevention vs. Intervention

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Three Greatest Obstacles

• Attaining Staff Buy-In,
• Communication, and
• Collaboration
• Making Interventions
• Systematic (guaranteeing
• student access)
• Choosing the most effective
• processes to deal with 1 and 2 -
  Gayle Karnahak

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The Cycle of Success

• What Triggers the Intervention?
• How will I know its working?
• Assess, Intervene and Monitor

Build It, Assign It, Sell It
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Foundation of the Pyramid is Prevention
85-90 of Students

• What youre teaching
• How youre teaching it
• How youre assessing it

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Level 1- Pyramid of Prevention

• How Were Teaching
• Non-Negotiables Established
• Relative TO THEM and Comprehensible!
• Best Practice/High Yield Strategies
• Vocabulary Development
• Multiple Opportunities/Differentiated
• Engaging and Active Learning
• Collaborative Learning - Differentiated

• What Were Teaching
• School-wide Commitment
• to TIA Document
• Character Education
• Fitness and Health
• Good Decision Making
• Ownership Of and
• Planning for Future

• How Were Assessing
• Valid
• Reliable
• Authentic
• Multiple Opportunities
• Differentiated
• Aligned

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Level 2- Pyramid of Prevention

• The Huddle is Building..
• Relationships
• Character
• Individual Responsibility
• Accountability
• Ownership
• Dreams and Goals and a Future
• Parent Connection
• The Team is..
• Building Relationships
• Meaningful and Challenging Work
• Nobody through the cracks
• Safe Environment to give it a go!
• No Child Left Behind
• Making Connections
• Goal Setting

• Kelly Clubs
• New Friends
• Building Character
• Life Long Learning
• Another Adult Advocate
• Common interest with my teacher
• Building Relationships

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Pyramid of Prevention..A Series of FORTUNATE
Events

• Monthly Dances
• Tailgate Party
• Next May- Water Works Day
• ICMM Clubs-
• I Can Manage Myself!
• Jacobs Crystals
• Ice Cream Sundaes
• Ice Skating
• Bowling
• Art Center Performances

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A Series of FORTUNATE Events
STOMP!
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Pyramid of Intervention
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The KMS Huddle

• Monday- Chewy Café
• Tuesday- Ron Clarks Essential 55
• Wednesday- Character Education
• Thursday and Friday-
• Sustained silent reading while teacher
  conferences with individual students.
• Students chart grades from week to week.
• To ImproveStudent Reflections, Set Weekly
  Achievement Goals

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A Series of Unfortunate Events!

• Detention is in the
• Computer Lab-
• SuccessMaker
• Homework Club
• Redo Cafe
• AM Tutoring / PM Tutoring
• Middle Level Scholars Project
• Bi-monthly Team Meetings w/ subpop focus
• Bi-Monthly Chart Progress of subpopulations

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Pyramid of Prevention and Intervention

• Data Driven
• A Work in Progress
• Will be better next year than last year
• Can change
• your school!

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Great Teachers Committed To Continuous
Improvement!
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KMS is Proud to Be a 2008 National School To
Watch Arkansas Diamond School