2019 Kansas MTSS and Alignment Symposium

This session is designed to guide participants through an interactive process to help them understand the why, what, and how of effective Social Emotional Learning (SEL) implementation. Specifically, participants will learn how to audit and align their current practices, structures, interventions, and resources with SEL best practices. They will also learn how to effectively integrate SEL through a data based decision making and continuous improvement lens. Participants will gain access to practical tips and tools that will guide and support their work in creating an infrastructure necessary to help ALL students in their schools.

A wealth of social, emotional, behavioral and mental health information is now available to schools. It can be confusing to know how to begin looking at this data, let alone how to use it to show growth at the systems, school culture, and individual levels. Let the Kansas MTSS and Alignment trainers show you how we are using a novel and streamlined way of looking at climate data to guide and drive growth at the systems and program level. By using the freely available Kansas Communities That Care survey data in a streamlined report, districts can quickly pinpoint 'hot spots' that may need their focus and resources. This can create stronger coherence within your MTSS, efficiency throughout the tiers, and align with State board and KESA goals. This allows your Social Emotional Learning efforts to reach their full potential, and we'll touch on measuring core SEL skill growth. It also ensures you aren't overwhelmed by special intervention needs. We'll touch on progress monitoring to measure growth within interventions. You'll hear from districts who have used our new CTC report and walk away with clear ideas about how your district can most efficiently navigate and measure social emotional growth

This session is designed to guide participants through an interactive process to help them understand the why, what, and how of effective Social Emotional Learning (SEL) implementation. Specifically, participants will learn how to audit and align their current practices, structures, interventions, and resources with SEL best practices. They will also learn how to effectively integrate SEL through a data based decision making and continuous improvement lens. Participants will gain access to practical tips and tools that will guide and support their work in creating an infrastructure necessary to help ALL students in their schools.

This workshop is designed to provide an overview of how to create an effective Tier 1 foundation designed to prevent behavior challenges in schools. This workshop will provide practical definitions, markers, rubrics, and samples for educators on how to incorporate or refine existing Tier 1 practices. Educators will learn how to assess their current PBIS Tier 1 state and build the 10 essential PBIS Tier 1 markers necessary for effective implementation.

Great experiences hinge on peak moments. We'll call them "defining moments": short experiences that are both meaningful and memorable. How do small moments of elevation, pride, insight, and connection make large impacts on your staff and collaborative teams? How as leaders do we structure for such moments to motivate the identity of the educators in our system? Come learn how with Susan Hays the sister of the best selling authors of The Power of Moments.

This session will feature a panel of school representatives relating their experience implementing competency instruction, including practice with feedback in numerous classrooms. During this session, administrators and teachers will share their lessons learned for quality implementation schoolwide, as well as in specific classrooms. The session will focus on addressing the “how”, describing clear implementation processes in a variety of contexts, in addition to observed outcomes.  Together, we can develop socially and emotionally engaged, career-equipped, lifelong learners.