Enrich. Intervene.
Learn. Succeed.
ISD 728 - Rogers Middle School
Rogers Middle School
• Part of the Elk River Area School District
• Northwest Suburb
• 1,140 students and 100+ staff members
Student population
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MCA
Diversity
ELL
SPED
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Our Journey
Our Journey
Last year...
Refine and Strengthen C, I, A, E/I, R- (iObservation)
RMS Program Philosophy
Rogers Middle School Intervention/Enrichment
program provides opportunities for students to
understand the essential learning outcomes of the
curriculum, including providing students with
additional support and enrichment within the
school day.
How we started
● Formed a professional learning community consisting
of 10-12 committed staff members, led by our district
gifted and talented coordinator
● Focused on gifted and talented and high achieving
students (classroom and schoolwide)
● Book studies
Making Differentiation a Habit, Diane Heacox
Demystifying Differentiation in Middle School, Eidson, Iseminger, Taibbi
Advancing Differentiation, Richard Cash
Goals and Implementation
Starting with Tier One
● Goal: to enrich students whose needs were already
being met in the classroom
● Committed staff members
● Start framework for building wide implementation of
RTI Enrichment/Intervention schedule
Goals and Implementation
Starting with Tier One
● Identification process (test scores,
discussion of writing sample, higher level
thinking sample)
● Development of course offerings
Tier One Course Offerings
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Engineering Challenges
Law Enforcement
Sewing, Woodworking
Photobooth Software Application
Journalism
Three Tiers, 1140 Students, RTI
Tier One- Top scoring 25%, Gifted and Talented and
High Achieving Students, enrichment course offered
Tier Two- 65%, rotating curriculum schedule, with
intervention opportunities
Tier Three- 10%, targeted intervention course
AVID
Targeted Enrichment/Intervention Time
Wednesday/Thursday Mornings
● 70 minutes total a week
● Clustered in groups of 5-30 students based on
tier and intervention needs
● Rotating A (advisory) and E (enrichment)
schedule in our system
Example of Student Schedule
Targeted Enrichment/Intervention Time
Students will experience one of the following:
● Targeted curriculum intervention
● Rotating discipline extension activity (math, English,
science, allieds, social studies, AVID strategies)
● Enrichment/intervention course or AVID
Schedule in Student System
● Students clustered in college groups
● Teachers are assigned the college group for
attendance purposes for each week
● Tier 2 rotates to teachers, tiers 1 and 3 and AVID
stay in one course all quarter
Tier Two
● Goal: to offer enrichment opportunities
for each core subject for majority of
students
● PLC (grade/subject alike)- creates
enrichments
Targeted Curriculum Intervention
● Teachers receive intervention time 1-5
times per quarter
● Reteach essential learning outcomes,
data based
● Teachers identify students and inform
them to report to their room or PLC
partner
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Example - College Schedule
● Students are grouped and
labeled by
college/university
● Groups rotate through
enrichments (student
stay together)
Example - 8th Grade Level Two
Tier Three
● Goal: offer intervention for students who
need more time on a skill
● Students who could benefit from weekly
time spent on a subject
o IEP knowledge, social skills, math, number
sense, reading fluency, writing, mindfulness
Challenges
● Training and changing of philosophy with
teachers
● Determining tier placement (scores,
labels)
● Finding flexibility in the Tier Two
schedule to accommodate interventions
Challenges
● Student motivation
● Student understanding of philosophy
● Not graded enrichment
Things to keep in mind
● Multiple staff want the same student at
the same time (priority departments,
communication)
● Number of staff available to teach
weekly
● Staff only needing intervention time with
students one of the two days
Things to keep in mind
● Provide time for teachers to plan their
enrichments
● How to allocate intervention time per
department
Is this working for our students?
● Classroom impacts
o improvement data from teachers
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MCA
Motivation
Focus is on learning
Continuous refinement of our system
Our Next Steps
● Look for ways to provide all students
with choices
● Review data as PLC teams and leadership
team
Additional Questions
Comments or questions
may also be emailed to
us.