A-LIST Spotlight: Rylie Jarrett, Intervention Specialist at Stevenson Elementary in Mad River Local Schools

Get ready because today's A-LIST Spotlight is overflowing with fabulous ideas from Intervention Specialist Rylie Jarrett from Stevenson Elementary in Mad River Local Schools!

We can't wait to share everything from Rylie's class. She is a fantastic teacher, visual support expert, and great partner to our coaching team. In fact, Rylie graciously welcomed us into her classroom this year to allow a live stream for 13 educators across 6 regional districts so that they could see best practices in action followed by a live Q&A session so Rylie could share additional resources and answer questions. It was an awesome opportunity and attendees are still raving about it!

Transition Supports

The first set of supports we want to share from Rylie's classroom are her transition supports. She does an excellent job priming students for transitions using the visual countdown, using a location-based schedule to help them transition to the correct location, using visual supports to assist with lining up when needed, and providing anchor activities when there is downtime between transitions. 

Additionally, positional cues help students know exactly where to go during carpet times or lining up which makes transitions smooth. 

Structured Work Systems

Once students transition to their designated location within the classroom, Rylie uses structured work systems to present work in a predictable way. This helps to communicate clear expectations and reduce escape behaviors. 

Academic Supports

Another way Rylie reduces escape behaviors is through making learning engaging and accessible for her young learners. She uses a variety of hands-on tasks and visuals to scaffold learning.

Communication Supports

To further support her students' learning and functional skills, Rylie uses a variety of low-tech and high-tech AAC to help her students communicate. 

Organization

Being this good requires staying organized! Rylie has a variety of organizational supports to keep learning materials readily accessible and to clearly communicate with her paraprofessionals. 

Sensory

One area Rylie excels at is meeting her students' sensory needs. It is evident Rylie believes that in order to educate you first must regulate! She provides students with boundaries, adaptive seating supports, sensory breaks, and heavy work to meet their various needs. 

Behavior Supports

In addition to meeting her students' academic, communication, and sensory needs, Rylie helps them learn essential behavior regulation skills. She knows behavior stems from underlying skill deficits and works hard to proactively prime students and provide visuals to help them in the moment. 

Rylie's students are so lucky to have her and so are we! We love working with Rylie and look forward to seeing more of her awesome supports in action in the future!

RESCHEDULED: Strategy Snapshot: Pillars of Performance PoP Cards

ACT Strategy Snapshot- PoP Cards RESCHEDULED by Allison Officer

For more information on our PoP Cards see our Sensational Social Skills posts:

 Sensational Social Skills

Organization Station: Data Collection Reminders

Yep, this pretty much sums up how we feel about data! We know it can be tricky to find time to record data but it is absolutely essential to monitoring progress and planning future interventions. In today's Organization Station we are going to share some of the data collection strategies we have seen when out coaching to hopefully make data collection easier and meaningful. 

Baseline Data

To determine what a student needs, it is important to first determine where they are at through taking baseline data. This could come from ETR testing or classroom assessments. For some skills, a rubric can be a great way to see where the student's current level is and also provides a progression of skills to get to proficiency. 

Communication Rubric
Emily Beck
Bradford Elementary, Bradford

Behavior Data

Often when coaching teams they will report student behavior that is interfering with the student's success at school. Behavior is so tricky because there is often a lot of emotion involved. The truth is, reporting on behavior without data is just an opinion. Taking baseline data on behavior provides a starting point for where to start with behavior interventions and addressing skill deficits and takes the emotion and opinion out of the equation. We love using this scatterplot data collection sheet because it makes it easy to visually see patterns of data and determine when to provide interventions. 

Brandy Beirise
Wayne High School, Huber Heights

Goal-Specific Data

Once baseline data is taken and analyzed, then goals and objectives are determined. Often, teachers will create goal-specific data collection tools to ensure that staff is keeping the goal in mind when working on needed skills. 

Granville Bastin
Preble County ESC

Data Organization

Many of us have been here! We get ready to write an IEP or progress report and realize that we don't have enough data. Or we want to trial a new intervention and realize we really don't have enough data to determine if the current interventions are being used with fidelity. Creating a system for organizing what data will be taken and who will take it ensures everything gets taken care of. 

Tim Sullivan 
Springfield High School, Springfield

Annette Black
Springfield High School, Springfield

Mandy Schetter
Northmoor Elementary, Northmont

Keep data collection materials in a designated area for easy access by teachers, paraprofessionals, and related service personnel. Using the same data collection sheets can reduce discrepancies and allow for easier collaboration and problem-solving. 

Rylie Jarrett
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River

Jackie Vollmer
Driscoll Elementary, Centerville

For more great ideas from our regional classrooms for data collection don't miss our previous posts:

Data Collection

Collecting Data

More Ideas for Data Collection