Professional Learning
Positive Organizational Culture
Needs:
Culture has room for improvement in the areas of professional responses in person, or through
electronic means.
High absentee rates of employees.
High rates of needed improvement from surveys
Need for positive response with initiatives
Need for staff positivity amongst colleagues, clients, or others.
Support:
Culture has room for improvement in the areas of professional responses in person, or through
electronic means.
High absentee rates of employees.
High rates of needed improvement from surveys
Need for positive response with initiatives
Need for staff positivity amongst colleagues, clients, or others.
Leadership
Needs:
New leadership roles
Decline of engagement from leadership roles Need for increase in applicants in leadership roles Increase in leadership staffing
Increased silos amongst leaders
Individual or group mentorship for administers
Support:
Leadership training
Best practices
Systems review
Facilitation of systems review and plan for updates
School MTSS Design
Needs:
Need to understand MTSS and components
Behavior aspects within the program analysis needs detailed plans or overall structure in tiers Misunderstandings between MTSS, RTI, PBIS, SEL, and other state initiatives.
Certain tiered levels need additional support
Increased funding with short time-span for planning
Need for MTSS plan analysis for possible updates
New SEL program(s) or staff in place to support, with need for structure
Planning professional learning in MTSS
Planning for new schedules to support MTSS
CSI needs
Support:
Need to understand MTSS and components
Behavior aspects within the program analysis needs detailed plans or overall structure in tiers Misunderstandings between MTSS, RTI, PBIS, SEL, and other state initiatives.
Certain tiered levels need additional support
Increased funding with short time-span for planning
Need for MTSS plan analysis for possible updates
New SEL program(s) or staff in place to support, with need for structure
Planning professional learning in MTSS
Planning for new schedules to support MTSS
CSI needs
Schools: SEL Implementation
Needs:
New SEL program in either tiers or all
Need to choose an overall program or support program Funding with need to plan funding to support SEL Need for staff “buy in” for SEL or program Misconceptions or misunderstanding of SEL
Need for Adult integration of SEL
Need for integrated SEL throughout the day
Need to plan data for tiered levels of SEL
Learn regarding what has worked in past
Need to understand the counselor role in SEL
Support:
Professional learning regarding SEL
Professional learning of resources and how to use SEL resources for programs Facilitation of SEL program analysis
Support for planning for pre and post SEL needs
Support choosing SEL data platforms and questions
Consulting
Schools: Attendance Focus
Needs:
Attendance is a key focus
Funding available to support attendance
Support:
Attendance analysis
Support in choosing how to support attendance with funding Support in steps to improve attendance
Learn regarding a school’s efforts and notice data trends with strategies Facilitate creating attendance goal plan
Schools: Revamping the SST process
Needs:
Staff overseeing SST process have other responsibilities Increase of SSTs
High level of special education assessments Misunderstanding of the SST process and role
Support:
Support in redesigning SST process with staff within SPSA Support in training additional staff in SST process System support for all elements of SST process
Equity: Implicit Bias training
Needs:
Staff have implicit bias
Students have implicit bias
There may be data that reveals possible implicit bias There are concerns from community regarding implicit bias
Support:
Training staff in understanding the meaning of implicit bias Support staff to teach students regarding implicit bias Tool to address
Data to review improvements
Equity: populations
McKinney Vento (homeless)
Foster Youth
Teen parents
LGBTQ+
Unaccompanied Youth
Needs:
Misunderstanding of supports
Need for increased understanding of students’ rights, Ed. Code, AB, and CDE Guidance Need to review processes in place
Needs assessment in areas
Support:
Training for staff
Support in procedures and processes
Support in facilitating updates in procedures and policies
Social Emotional Learning
Needs:
Tier 1, Tier 2, and/or tier 3 need
Curriculum decision making per grade level spans Adult SEL skills
Understanding framework
Planning for integration in the system needed
“Buy-in” from staff for a variety of reasons
Support:
Train staff in either or all levels
School focus and/or counselor role within SEL
Train Adult SEL skills and implementation
Training in framework and data
Support in systems and procedures updates
Facilitate understanding of SEL program components
Facilitate data analysis, planning for needs, and programs available based on needs and priorities
Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports
Needs:
Tier 1, Tier 2, and/or tier 3 need
Systems needs to improve clarity
Review and format protocols and procedures
Supports:
- What is PBIS
- What is already in place (norms, procedures)
- System of what is in place
- Data to review
- Redesign components of PBIS structure
- Review elements within each zone
- Plan for “what ifs”
- Can start from ground, or within process
Univeral Design for Learning (UDL)
Need: Understanding of what UDL is, what it looks like, and how to integrate
- Misinterpretations of UDL
- Staff buy-in needed
- Practical methods of integration
- Pilot trials
Support:
- Professional learning in UDL
- Practice in integrating UDL
- Timeline and goal setting with UDL
- Individualized support with UDL
Schedule Support
Need: Interventions, new instructions, new instructional time changes, schedule shifts, or needs based on discipline
- Need to integrate VAPA
- Integrate intervention support
- Integrate SEL supports during the day
- Integrate other program or restructure schedule
Support:
- Support in options while considering variables
- Use data regarding student data from discipline, attendance, health needs
- Redesign schedule updates to match new initiative(s)
SPSA goals to support
Need: Review needs with goals and areas to integrate top priorities and consider identity groups.
- Needs in place but unsure which goal matches
- How to integrate goals with alignment
Support:
- Review needs and data
- Discuss needs with SSC
- Support in recommendations and proposals for needs with funding areas
Data plan for Analysis
Need: understand or have a third party analyze the needs of a school site or district
- Staff morale/culture/mindset
- Parent morale/culture/mindset
- Staff perception of needs
Support:
- Conduct surveys, both quantitative and qualitative Permissions by members for analysis
- Cross analysis on correlation and themes
- Report of findings
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