Strategies to meet
individual student
needs across
settings in
residential schools
Cindy Kelly
Chris Rich
Beth Shaw
Goals
• Demonstrate a model for addressing specialized student needs
• Identify key components to successful student intervention
strategies
• Share ideas of how other schools are managing student needs
Confidentiality
Protecting
Student’s privacy
Sharing important
information with
staff who need to
know
Purpose
• Enhance inter-disciplinary collaboration and plan effectiveness
• Provide staff accountability to student plans
 Provide structure for ongoing data review
 Document response to an identified concern/need
 Support parent/sponsor involvement in process
Overview
-Intervention Team (IT)
-Service Provider Team (SPT)
use of technology
Communication
-Strength based
-Follow-up
-Yearly monitoring of progress
-Types of needs identified through this
process
IT Team Members
Coordinator
of Health
Services
Lead
Psychologist
Assistant
principal
Assistant HL
director
Student
need
Medical
/building
clinic nurse
Intervention Team Flow Chart
generatedtimeline for
follow-up
How many referrals do we get?
• Approximately 2000
students
• Open cases for the year
2014-2015
IT
SPT
Elementary 138
81
Middle
154
105
Senior
127
152
Total
419
338
Referral Process
• Types of referrals
• Who makes referrals
• Parent referrals
• Admissions role-referrals prior to enrollment
• Identifying and planning for student needs prior to their arrival
Accountability
Concrete goals
Follow-up
Classroom/student home
walk-throughs
Review of student data
Case Study
Kesha
9th grader
Areas of concern:
 Fatigue
 Vision
 Motivation and behavior
 Reading comprehension
 Mathematics performance
Case study continued
• Intervention strategies:
• Medical concerns
• Emotional concerns
• Academic concerns
• Other interventions:
– Tie weekly preference to home visits, for every missed assignment, Samantha
loses an hour of her home visit
– Tutoring with Mrs. Small on Mondays and Thursdays
– Use of timer for opening activities
– Supports from Mrs. Small in American Cultures
– Reduced HW load in American Cultures
PAIS accreditation standards
• 18. The schools’ student support services, extracurricular
programs and activities facilitate and enhance student learning
and offer a broad range of educational experiences for students
• 19. The school provides evidence of procedures to evaluate,
report and track individual and collective student progress; to
assess the effectiveness of student learning through the use of
data; and to use assembled data to make sustainable decisions
• 22. The school demonstrates its commitment to providing a safe
and healthy environment for its community
How does your school manage individual student needs?
Where is my school in managing
individual student needs?
A. We have a well-run plan to address individual student needs
B. We have a plan, but it is not implemented consistently
C. We are building a plan to address individual student needs
D. We do not have a plan to address individual student needs
What are the main struggles in your
organization around meeting student
needs?
A. Consistency
B. Communication
C. Progress monitoring
D. Providing individualized plans
A 10th grade student is in your school. He has been
a good student for the past year and a half with
only one prior discipline issue. He has been acting
up lately, making passive suicidal statements "I wish
I were dead", talking back to his teachers and
disrupting the student home. He was in soccer, but
recently quit the team. What would be your
school's response to this scenario?
A: Call his parents
B: Refer to a team based intervention review
C: Refer to a counselor
D: Speak to his teachers
Contact:
Cindy Kelly
Kellyc@mhs-pa.org
717-520-2267
Chris Rich
Richc@mhs-pa.org
717-520-3310
Beth Shaw
Shawb@MHS-pa.org
717-520-2408
Milton Hershey School
http://www.mhskids.org/
Thank you and enjoy the rest of the
conference!
“America's future will be
determined by the home
and the school. The child
becomes largely what
he/she is taught; hence we
must watch what we teach,
and how we live.”
-Jane Addams