Team Final ReportDecember 16, 2008

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Revisiting the Catcher in the Rye:Dropout Prevention Breakthrough Team

Mason County Break Through Team

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.  Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.  And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. "  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Sponsors Terry Bergeson, OSPI, Superintendent of Public Instruction

Cathy Davidson, OSPI, Chief of Staff Martin Mueller, OSPI, Assistant Superintendent of Student Support

Single Point of Accountability (SPA)Mona Johnson, OSPI, Director of Learning and Teaching Support

State Team Members

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Shelton School District

ESD 113 OSPI WSIPC

Joan Zook Todd Johnson Annie Blackledge Sue Furth

Gordy Hanson Lynn Nelson Ron Hertel

Kitty Lundeen-Ness Mike Hickman **David Tudor

Sue Beauregard

Goal:To develop a data system that identifies students“at risk” of dropping out and an intervention process. To be piloted in collaboration with Shelton School District (grades 8-12): Shelton High School (Grades 10-12)CHOICE (Challenging High School Opportunities in Continuing Education)

High School (Grades 9-12)Oakland Bay Junior High (Grades 8-9)

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The good news is . . . We achieved our goal! A universal screening criteria and process

has been developed A catalog of interventions and codes has

been created to track and monitor student progress

Local intervention teams have been established in pilot schools◦ Shelton High School – 138 students participated◦ CHOICE High School – 109 students participated◦ Oakland Bay Junior High – 18 students

participated5

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Scientific Method: The Problem

Solving Process

Universal Screening Criteria **- Absences(+5) - Behind credits/retention- WASL Scores - Adjudication status **At risk- 3 out of 4

Ancillary dropout reports- “at risk” reports run for identified students

- Foster Care - ELL - Migrant - D and F grades – Discipline - Health Concerns

Database Intervention Codes- to monitor identified student enrollment and progress

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Local team convened- school and community providers

◦ Catalogue of available interventions

◦ Intervention process developed- Response to Intervention model utilized

◦ Integration with current intervention processes- Building level

Building level intervention teams identified Intervention team leads and backups trained on data

systems

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Parents, Staff, Teachers, and Community focused on

High School Graduation!!9

TEAMWORK – COMMUNICATION - REFLECTION

Dropout Early Warning and Intervention System Classroom, School and District Improvement

Professional Development Professional Learning Communities

Programs: Readiness to Learn Student Achievement High School and Beyond Planning Student Learning Plans Navigation 101

Response to Intervention American School Counselor Model:

A Framework for School Counseling Programs

Complete Implementation Guide (First Edition) - A step by step “how to” for schools and districts

Phase II◦ Continue building level intervention team

meetings◦ Additional RTI and data trainings◦ Cycle through full student data and intervention

process◦ System evaluation and refinement

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