Educators discuss, review, and reflect upon data on a daily basis during their professional learning communities and/or planning time. It is crucial that during our time of collaboration we use a framework for problem solving whether it is core, attendance, behavior, academics, or individual student problem solving. Hoke County Schools uses the TIPS framework for our MTSS problem solving framework. TIPS simply means a Team Initiated Problem Solving Framework that can be utilized for any grade level or concern.
The Problem-Solving team should ask the following questions at each time progress monitoring data is discussed for groups of students (in addition to previously established problem-solving protocol):
Has our problem-solving shifted from overall instruction, environment, and curriculum for groups of students to individual, student-centered concerns?
Are there any individual students that are consistently not making progress with interventions?
Are they any individual students that are unlikely to achieve grade-level standards by the end of the school year?
Does the data indicate that the consistent lack of progress with interventions may be caused by a disability?
Does the individual student's progress in the general curriculum have characteristics typically associated with a disability?