Core Members Roles and Responsibilities

District

• Provide professional development, resources, and materials as needed (Branching Minds)

• Communicate understandable common message to participants and the public

• Fidelity checks

• Support stakeholders

• Communicate the universal screener/assessment dates and deadlines to the district

• Coordinate consistent, district-wide research and evidence-based instruction/curriculum/intervention/extension

• Provide problem solving support as needed

Campus - Instructional Staff & Campus Intervention Team (CIT)

• Provide research and evidence based instruction/curriculum/intervention/extension

• Differentiate levels of instruction

• Initiate & maintain fidelity of instruction, assessment, intervention and extension

• Evaluate students for placement in tiers for instruction and develop Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions and supports to meet student needs

• Establish performance goals for the student in the targeted area(s)

• Develop a plan that details specific interventions to address the goals and determine how the student's progress will be monitored

• Monitor/assess/document data and student progress in Branching Minds

• Communicate and collaborate with all appropriate stakeholders

• Monitor progress according to the district established timelines

• Problem-solve with principal regarding case-by-case questions as they arise

Principal/Assistant Principal (or principal designee)

• Schedule and delegate responsibilities

• Communicate to teachers, families, participants

• Support implementation

• Provide and facilitate professional development/resources with district support

• Ensure fidelity of instruction

• Coordinate and assist in data analysis

• Organize the Campus Intervention Team

• Ensure documentation of interventions and program data is maintained (Branching Minds)

• Ensure a yearlong CIT calendar is in place by August

• Problem-solve with Instructional staff & CIT regarding case-by-case questions as they arise

Counselor

• Serve as CIT Chair

• Schedule CIT Meetings and create Google Calendar invites

• Facilitate meetings

• Maintain record keeping in Branching Minds

• Input data into software

• Send parent notification letter (MTSS Parent Notification Letter)

• Support teachers with behavior concerns and interventions

• Determine special assignments

• Attend trainings and district meetings

• Complete required forms

Classroom Teacher

• Provide high-quality core instruction and differentiated instruction for students with fidelity

• Participate in PLC team meetings as well as CIT meetings to analyze student performance, discuss assessment data, identify student needs, set target goals and develop interventions

• Monitor all “at-risk” students

• Implement specific scientific research-based interventions

• Maintain ongoing progress monitoring data/documentation in Branching Minds, work samples and anecdotal notes

• Refer student for CIT meeting

• Document CIT decisions

• Communicate with parent regarding student concerns

Special Education Teacher

• Provide CIT with information regarding methodology for providing instructional and/or behavioral interventions that can be implemented in the general education classroom

English Learner (EL) Representative

• Attend meetings for identified EL students

• Ensure that language acquisition is NOT the basis for disability referrals

Specialist (Diagnostician, Licensed Specialist in School Psychology, Speech Path)

• Attend CIT meeting as requested

• Provide instructional recommendations, strategies and supports from area of expertise

Nurse

• Conduct vision/hearing screening

• Provide health related data to CIT as needed

• Serve as a resource regarding health services/or health issues

Family

• Be an active participant in the meetings

• Be involved in the data sharing and decision-making

• Support their child at home with any interventions that have a home component

• Ask questions, express concerns, and offer suggestions