Thursday, October 30, 2008

What is the role is the IST team?

Who will (may) be present at the IST team meetings? Each school is responsible for determining their own school team.
1. Building Administrator
2. Classroom Teacher
3. Building Counselor
4. Building/District Psychologist
5. Parent/Guardian (optional)
6. Nurse
7. Family Interventionist
8. Outside Agencies
9. Special Education Teachers
10. Reading Specialist/Reading Coach

This team is responsible for:
1. Analyzing data
2. Making recommendations for student success
3. Determining interventions for student success and assigning WHO will provide those
interventions. (6 week plan – see Sample Documentation Pages tab)
4. Documenting student progress during the RTI progression of TIERS
5. Accountability
6. Assigning a case manager to assist the teacher in monitoring/providing interventions

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Before you attend an IST meeting, please bring the following:
  • Data notebooks
  • A portfolio of student work
  • General description of child’s work habits
  • Copies of report cards, progress reports, progress monitoring data, assessments, previous year’s data, DSTP data (if available), retentions, summer school, behavior logs
  • Logs of parent contacts, contact log, parent notes, conference logs
  • Interventions already tried in the classroom (What worked? What didn’t work?)
  • Ideas of interventions yet to be tried.

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