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SWIFT Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org S WIFT Process Build Learning Create Eliminate Silos Organizations SWIFT Powerful learning for Multi-Tiered Systems students, teachers, and Fragmentation of Academic & Social active, engaged Learning partnerships with families and community members

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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.

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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.

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org S WIFT Goals 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.

What Does A S WIFT S chool Look Like?

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Academic Instruction Behavioral Instruction (with fidelity measures) (with fidelity measures) Level 3 Level 3 Increase Numbers of Students Tertiary Interventions Tertiary Interventions (for individual students) (for individual students) • Wraparound Intervention • Assessment Based • Complex Multiple Life Domain • Resource Intensive More Intensive Support Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans Level 2 Level 2 Secondary Interventions Secondary Interventions (for some students: at-risk) • Some Individualizing (for some students: at-risk) • Simple Functional Behavior • Small Group Interventions Assessment/Behavior • High Efficiency Intervention Plans • Rapid Response • Group Intervention with Individual Features • Group Intervention Level 1 Primary Interventions (for all students) Level 1 • Preventive, Proactive Primary Interventions • Differentiated Instruction (for all students) • Research-Validated • Direct Instruction of Behavioral Curriculum Expectation • Positive Acknowledgment Universal Screening All Students Technical Assistance Center for Inclusive School-wide Reform SWIFT: The Schoolwide Integrated Framework For Transformation Center

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org Effective Distributed Leadership Common Vision

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org Focused Leadership Principal Investigators & Project Officers National Advisory National TA Leadership Council Faculty Consortium

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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).

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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.

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org S WIFT Teams Will Step Four: Solidify the Transformation Step Three: Effort Bolster the Teaching and Step Two: Learning Scaffold Framework Content Step One: Build a Structure of Support

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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.

SWIFTSCHOOLS.org 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