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SWIFT

Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation

National Need

• Fragmented supports and lack of family

engagement.

• Achievement gap
• Student engagement and behavior that impedes

learning

• Lack of implementation with fidelity of

evidence-based interventions

• Lack of sustainability and replication
• Lack of knowledge-sharing and resource

availability

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S WIFT Process

Eliminate Silos

Fragmentation

Build Learning Organizations

Multi-Tiered Systems

• f Academic & Social

Learning

Create SWIFT

Powerful learning for students, teachers, and active, engaged partnerships with families and community members

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S WIFT Will

• Maximize coordination and collaboration among

student supports and increase family engagement

• Engage all students in the learning process
• Shape and support positive behavior to facilitate

learning

• Make it easy for educators to get access to the

resources and knowledge that will support them in attaining their students’ learning goals

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What is SWIFT?

• SWIFT stands for School-wide Integrated

Framework for Transformation

• The SWIFT model capitalizes on engaging the

whole school community in ways that will positively transform the learning outcomes for all students

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S WIFT Center Mission

• This national center’s mission is to help

educators in providing the kind of academic and behavioral support that will result in excellence in education for all students, including those with disabilities

Collaboration for All S tudents

• We know that all students are not the same in

the way that they learn. The SWIFT model is designed to combine the strengths of general and special educators by supporting them in working in concert with one another when teaching grade level curriculum.

• Together, teachers can better meet the unique

learning needs of all students.

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S WIFT Core Features

1) Strong and engaged site leadership that is committed to SWIFT processes 2) An evidence-based curriculum 3) All instruction delivered though a schoolwide, multi-tiered, system of support 4) Citizenship, social development, and behavior 5) A community-school approach 6) A strong teacher-support system 7) Fully integrated organizational structure 8) A schoolwide, data-based decision model: digital mapping and a data analysis dashboard 9) Community of practice that includes all school personnel 10) Professional learning community of teachers 11) Policy framework at all levels (school, district, state, federal) that is fully aligned 12) Strong and supportive relationship between individual schools and their district central offices

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Who is Involved in S WIFT?

This award received from the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education, offers us the ability to collaborate nationally in unprecedented ways. At the University of Kansas:

• The SWIFT Center is housed at the Beach Center on

Disability

• The Center for Research on Learning
• The Department of Special Education
• The Life Span Institute

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National NCL Team Members

• The University of Oregon, the University of New

Hampshire

• The University of North Carolina
• The University of South Florida
• Arizona State University
• Louisiana Technical University
• The Council of Chief State School Officers
• The National Association of State Directors of Special

Education

• TASH, the Institute for Educational Leadership
• Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education
• Clickfarm Interactive for website design and

management

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S WIFT Goals

Goal 1: Identify and examine six Knowledge Development Schools using rigorous evaluation measures and field assessments to determine the unique features of effective inclusive schoolwide reform. Goal 2: Recruit, select and then provide intensive technical assistance to four states, with four districts per state, to build capacity to install SWIFT in 64 schools.

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Goal 3: Build capacity to sustain SWIFT schools and extend SWIFT practices to additional schools within implementing districts. Goal 4: Implement a system to support Multi- Level State Leadership and Coordination to scale up SWIFT. Goal 5: Establish and disseminate the output of a national Knowledge Bank on schoolwide inclusive reform.

S WIFT Goals

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What Does A S WIFT S chool Look Like?

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support

Academic Instruction (with fidelity measures) Behavioral Instruction (with fidelity measures)

Level 3 Tertiary Interventions (for individual students)

• Wraparound Intervention
• Complex Multiple Life Domain

Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans Level 2 Secondary Interventions (for some students: at-risk)

• Simple Functional Behavior

Assessment/Behavior Intervention Plans

• Group Intervention with

Individual Features

• Group Intervention

Level 1 Primary Interventions (for all students)

• Direct Instruction of Behavioral

Expectation

• Positive Acknowledgment

Level 3 Tertiary Interventions (for individual students)

• Assessment Based
• Resource Intensive

Level 2 Secondary Interventions (for some students: at-risk)

• Some Individualizing
• Small Group Interventions
• High Efficiency
• Rapid Response

More Intensive Support Increase Numbers of Students

Universal Screening All Students Technical Assistance Center for Inclusive School-wide Reform SWIFT: The Schoolwide Integrated Framework For Transformation Center

Level 1 Primary Interventions (for all students)

• Preventive, Proactive
• Differentiated Instruction
• Research-Validated

Curriculum

Effective Distributed Leadership Common Vision

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Focused Leadership

Principal Investigators & Project Officers

National Leadership Consortium Advisory Council National TA Faculty

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National Technical Assistance Faculty

• With direction from the National Leadership Consortium,

the SWIFT Center will rely on a national “faculty” of TA consultants who are experienced with inclusive MTSS/ RTI school reform.

• These TAs will provide on-site, “hands on” expertise in

instantiating SWIFT critical features applied to teachers, coaches, administrators, school staff, and families during two-day site visits, four times per year beginning year two.

• Using a multi-tiered approach these TAs will be trained to

a high level of fidelity-using the SWIFT Field Guide (a Center product for dissemination during year 1).

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Advisory Group

• This group will offer guidance on all SWIFT

Center operations and includes a strong family presence.

• Current members of the Advisory Group were

selected on the basis of their national prominence in areas germane to successful Center operations and outcomes, as well as their representativeness of various Center constituencies including those specified in the RFP.

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S WIFT Teams Will

Step One: Build a Structure of Support Step Two: Scaffold Content Step Three: Bolster the Teaching and Learning Framework Step Four: Solidify the Transformation Effort

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Intensive Technical Assistance

• Accountability

▫ Focused on intended outcomes ▫ Using challenges and feedback as opportunities to bring in new strategies, partners, and knowledge to continue the work ▫ Measuring impact at multiple levels with benefits to children and their families at the core.

“ The TA Provider behaves as though they are 100% accountable for results w hile sim ultaneously understanding and acting to create effective, collaborative efforts to achieve agreed-upon goals”

Blase 2009

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SWIFT Field Guide

• MTSS/ RTI
• UDL
• PBIS-including bully prevention
• Co-teaching
• Integrated service delivery
• Culturally responsive practices
• Family engagement
• Effective instructional practices
• Flexible grouping
• Differentiated instruction
• Intensive classroom management strategies
• Increasing classroom instructional rigor
• Adapting instruction for students with

significant learning needs

• Integrating common core standards with

IEP goal development

• Scheduling and resource allocation for

students with IEPs

• Data use and fidelity measures to change

systems

• Screening and progress monitoring for

academics and behavior

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Field Guide Application

• This menu of content will expand based on

additional information gleaned from the knowledge development sites and will be matched to specific school and district priorities and needs by the SWIFT National Leadership Consortium.

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Cross Center Coordination

• Joint development of TA products
• Coordination of TA services, meetings and

events

• Building on the expertise and resources of

previously and currently supported

• Department of Education TA centers

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Center Out Reach & Partnership

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring (NCSPM) Research Institute on Progress Monitoring (RIPM) Center on Instruction (COI) Research for Inclusive Settings (IRIS) Center; The Intensive Interventions Center Center on Positive Behavioral Supports Personnel Preparation TA&D/ TACC Early Childhood Center for Technology Implementation Center on State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Dynamic Learning Maps Consortium Center The IDEA Partnership Project The Regional Resource Centers The National and Regional Parent Technical Assistance Centers The Regional Educational Laboratories

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The Details

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Com bining the strength of general and special educators for all

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Input and Feedback Welcome

• Please share your thoughts and ideas

Contact Information

Wayne Sailor, Ph.D. Director National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center Professor Dept. of Special Education Associate Director Beach Center on Disability 2012-2013 Budig Teaching Professor 1200 Sunnyside, 3136 Haworth University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Email wsailor@ku.edu Office 785-864-4950 Cell 7855-764-6993 Fax 785-864-7605 Amy McCart, Ph.D. SWIFT Director of Technical Assistance Associate Research Professor Life Span Institute Beach Center on Disability University of Kansas Haworth Hall 1200 Sunnyside Ave, Room 3130 Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7534 Email amymc@ku.edu Office 785-864-4950 Cell 816-719-3393 Fax 785-864-7605

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