New Orleans Recovery School District Our Children, Our Future

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New Orleans Recovery School District Our
Children, Our Future

• Diana Jones, PhD, NCSP
• RTI/Appraisal Coordinator
• Recovery School District
• diana.jones_at_rsdla.net

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Overview

• History Walk New Orleans Style
• Stormy Weather
• Morphing the Recovery School District
• RTI for the RSD--Academics Behavior
• Where We Are
• Where We Are Going

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New Orleans Educationprior to August 29, 2005

• Some excellent public schools with outstanding
  student outcomes
• Large number of schools with Unsatisfactory LEAP
  scores
• Special Education primarily self-contained
• Large Disproportionality and Mis-identification
  issues.

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Katrina
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Direct Storm Impact

• 1293 Louisiana residents confirmed dead
• 883 missing as of 4/10/06
• 360,000 residents displaced outside LA
• 40 public schools destroyed, 835 damaged
• 12,000 teachers displaced
• 175,809 public school students displaced, 72,479
  displaced out of state

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Theoretical Crisis Plans vs. Reality Based Crisis
Plans

• Crisis plans usually based on using available
  supports in community
• What to do when community supports not available
  and family supports disrupted?

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USPHS

• Direct collaboration with LDOE
• Created applied training modules
• Creating Classroom Communities
• Stress Reduction
• Crisis Management
• Healthy Responsiveness
• Project SERV
• Hired and trained displaced teachers
• Services to schools throughout state

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Creation of Storm-born Recovery School District

• Inclusive Practices
• Provide a three-tiered process of instruction and
  intervention delivery in both academics and
  behavior
• Provide PBS model for all schools
• Strong mental health supports
• Data based-decisions

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Every Ed

• Every educator in every school is
• responsible for the education of every
• student

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RTIResponse to InterventionReally Terrific
Instruction

• Moving students from where they are to where they
  need to be

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Assessing the Situation

• Student Population
• Year 1 Year 2
  
• Reg SpEd Reg
  SpEd
• 12,925 944(7) 12,651
  1,262(10)
• Student Population Profile
• 97 African American 97 Free/Reduced Lunch
• .7 Caucasian 50 At-Risk Dropout
• 2.3 Hispanic/Other 1.2 Limited English
• 4 Homeless

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Assessing the Situation

• Approximately 85 of our youth exhibit MH issues
  
• 40 of school age children display emotional
  concerns
• Average 1-2 student/school crisis calls per week

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RTI Design for RSD

• Administrative support
• Framework for reading, math and behavior
• Scientifically based instruction and
  interventions
• School-Level RTI Teams
• RTI manual to communicate process
• Process for evaluating data and making decisions

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Response to Intervention (RTI)

• Tiered Model
• Tier 1 Benchmark All Students
• Tier 2 Strategic Interventions Standard
  Protocol model
• Tier 3 Intensive Interventions

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RSDs RTI Triangle
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RTI Manual

• Process
• Team Members and Roles
• Procedures
• Universal Screening/Risk Identification
• Progress Monitoring/Data Driven Decisions
• Assessment Tools/Intervention Programs
• Intervention Plans
• Data
• Resources

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Behavior Protocols

• Tier I Positive Behavior Support
• Tier II Repeated inappropriate behaviors
• Tier III Pattern of challenging behaviors

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Available Services

• RSD Specialists, Nurses, Counselors, Appraisal,
  School Psychologists, Social Workers
• Outside Agencies
• LSU-Dept of Psychiatry
• LA Spirit
• Access-To-Care (Red Cross)
• Save the Children
• Childrens Hospital
• Childrens Bureau
• Family Services of G N O

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Lessons Learned

• Increase Professional Development and support for
  inclusive practices, instruction and RTI
• Need over-arching data system to secure, retrieve
  and coordinate school record information
• Improve coordination across school system
  departments (academics, behavior, special
  services)
• Engage parents/guardians in process
• Provide competent support for emotionally fragile
  students and school staff

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BTS/STS/ATS

• Before The Storm
• Surviving The Storm
• After The Storm

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Where Are We?

• School climate vastly improved
• LEAP data showed improvement in all major
  categories. Overall up by 7 points.
• SPED records much improved (esp. counted over not
  counted compliance).
• Better coordination of services to students with
  special needs.

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Future Planning

• Increase professional learning about all aspects
  of RSD Vision.
• Empower school staff through Small Learning
  Communities to facilitate growth and buy-in
• Enhance school-wide data system to promote
  student success foster data decisions
• Increase evidenced-based/best practices
• - assessment tools
• - interventions/data analysis
• - relevant training coaching
• Behavioral health provide a system of care
• - wraparound services

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RSDNow and Tomorrow

• Positive Outcomes for Students
• Professional Growth
• Dynamic Opportunities for Change
• Exciting
• Vision for Progress!!