St. Croix River Education District

Collaborate • Innovate • Advocate

🎥 What does it mean?

Infrastructure refers to the collection of physical, relational, and procedural mechanisms in a system that support people as they coordinate and work efficiently together. These components provide the structural stability for initiatives to be installed, sustained, and improved independent of particular individuals and personalities. An effective school infrastructure increases the likelihood that improvement efforts are focused and aligned and that educators are empowered to ensure equitable, healing-centered, assets-based social, emotional, behavioral, developmental, and academic outcomes for every student. 

Teams

Configuration and Purposes of Teams

• Teams to Support MTSS Information about how different teams work across the levels of the MTSS framework: their roles, lenses, and more.
• Building-Level Team Development Worksheet Leadership teams can use this resource to get on the same page about their purpose, membership, norms, decision-making processes, etc.
• District-Level Team Development Worksheet The same resource but designed for district leadership.

Agenda Templates

• Generic Running Agenda A clean slate that can be adapted and used for any team + 🎥 how to use it.
• Running Agenda for Data Review Meetings* This is an example of a running agenda that a school could use throughout a school year to review screening data, progress monitoring, common assessments, etc. and keep track of their action items.
• Fall Data Review Meeting* This is a similar example, but it offers a slightly different structure.
• Grade Level Behavior Tracker / Problem Solving Team (PST) Agenda Grade level teams can use a spreadsheet like this to track students of concern and practices they're using to respond in the classroom. The behavior PST can also use it to document Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.
• Individual Student Behavior Problem Solving During PST or SST meetings, teams could use this agenda to frame conversations around specific students. Decisions would then be reflected in – for example — the Grade Level Behavior Tracker (Tier 3) or IEPs/BSPs (SpEd).
• SpEd Student Support Team (SST) Behavior Data Review Team meetings to review all behavior data for students in special education to proactively identify students needing additional behavior supports. There is also a variation designed for teams that review a broader student group (e.g., students suspected of having a disability).
• Federal Setting III Program Data Review Team meetings to review student progress/levels, staffing, program integrity, and program evaluation.

*Essential Components of Data Review Agendas: When Data Facilitators work with their teams to develop meeting agendas like the examples linked above, there are a few essential components: (#1) Follow the school's Plan for Data Review Meetings (#2) When examining any data source: Define the "current state", "desired state", strengths and needs (i.e., analysis), action steps, and a plan for evaluating progress.

Team Functioning

Collaboration Tools Resources to help teams develop norms, make decisions together, ensure all voices are heard, and more.

Implementation Plans

• Implementation Science Basics When we're implementing new practices and programs, if we want them to stick around and achieve the results we're looking for, we need to be intentional about what we're implementing, where we're implementing it, who is involved, and how we approach it.