Building Successful Response to Intervention Programs

This session will focus on the multiple programs Cousino High School uses to intervene with students who are not learning. Cousino High School has adopted the collaborative process of Professional Learning Commuities. Through the use of this collaboarative process, Cousino has developed interventions for students who are not learning. The session will focus on the multiple intervention strategies Cousino uses in addressing students who are not learning. Using a customized computer based program of credit recovery along with creative scheduling of Academic Learning Centers, Cousino has achieved a success rate of over 80% of students recovering one or more failed core classes while still exposing students to high levels of rigor. Furthermore, collaboratively developed peer mentoring, character education, mandatory tutoing, and conflict resolution programs have been instituted with high levels of success. The session will focus on ensuring achievement for all students: developing systems of prevention and intervention, building sustainable leadership capacity, and activities regarding vision and goals. Participants will be engaged for about 50% of the session in building a vision, goals and developing intervention programs for success of all students.