Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports


2009 Kansas MTSS Symposium
September 10-11, 2009
Handouts from the Symposium

	2009 MTSS Symposium Agenda

Thursday		PDF Handout
8:30	General Session
	Diane DeBacker	General Session
	Steve Kukic	The Six Secrets of Change: MTSS-Based Leadership Does Make a Difference!

10:15	Concurrent Sessions
	Steve Kukic	From Rhetoric to Action: Making the Tough Decisions to Use MTSS to Achieve Extraordinary Results
	Michele Douglas	Defining Appropriate Math Intervention: Placement and Content K-3
	Joan Moore	Putting the Phun in Phonics
	Jane Groff	Building School-Family Partnerships to Support Student Success
	Lea Ann Pasquale	Positive Behavior Supports: Our Journey to Tier Three
	Joanne Allain	Precise RtI Planning for Elementary Schools: Finding Your Best Fit
	Debra Berlin	Teach Them All to Read: Creating Successful Adolescent Readers
	Terrance Scott	Strategies for Managing Challenging Students in Classroom Settings

1:00	General Session
	Cara Shores	A Comprehensive RtI Model: Integrating Behavior and Academic Interventions

2:30	Concurrent Sessions
	Cara Shores	Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring Grades K-8
	Michele Douglass	Defining Appropriate Math Intervention: Placement and Content K-3
	Stanley Dodds	MTSS at Junction City High School: Why We Implemented it and the Results We are seeing
	Melinda McKnight	Fidelity of the Implementation of the MTSS Model
	Dawn Miller	How a Model of Support Can Address All Learners: A Tale of Two Schools
	Joanne Allain	Precise RtI Planning for Middle/High Schools: Finding Your Best Fit
	Debra Berlin	Teach Them All to Read: Creating Successful Adolescent Readers
	Terrance Scott	Strategies for Managing Challenging Students in Classroom Settings

Friday		PDF Handout
8:30	Concurrent Sessions
	Debra Berlin	Creating Meaningful Vocabulary Instruction
	Joanne Allain	Precise RtI Planning for Middle/High Schools: Finding Your Best Fit
	Terrance Scott	Strategies for Managing Challenging Students in Classroom Settings
	Terri Kimball	Tools for the MTSS Journey
	Lori Jensen	Strengthening the Core: The "How, What, and Why" of Explicit and Effective Instruction
	Karla Reed	Use of Reading Specialists for a Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction at All Levels of MTSS.
	Steve Kukic	Yes, We Can and MUST Solve the Dropout Disaster
	Michele Douglass	The Power of Multiple Strategies in Mathematics in Grades 4-8
	Cara Shores	Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring in Grades 9-12

10:15	Concurrent Sessions
	Debra Berlin	Teach Them to Read: Creating Successful Elementary School Readers
	Joanne Allain	Precise RtI Planning for Middle/High Schools: Finding Your Best Fit
	Terrance Scott	Strategies for Managing Challenging Students in Classroom Settings
	Sharon Bechtel	Ready or Not? Is Your School Ready For the MTSS Implementation Process?
	Pam Leiker	Squeezing Learning Into Every Minute
	Vera Beach	Intervention Design: Using the Hierarchy of the Big Ideas in Reading
	Steve Kukic	Yes, We Can and MUST Solve the Dropout Disaster
	Michele Douglass	Improving Instruction to Close the Achievement Gap in Math Grades 3-12
	Cara Shores	Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring Grades K-8

12:45	Concurrent Sessions
	Debra Berlin	Teach Them to Read: Creating Successful Elementary School Readers
	Joanne Allain	Precise RtI Planning for Elementary Schools: Finding Your Best Fit
	Terrance Scott	Strategies for Managing Challenging Students in Classroom Settings
	Katherine Sprott	MEAC: An Equity Approach
	Kelli O'Neal-Hixson	Math Interventions
	Steve Kukic	From Rhetoric to Action: Making the Tough Decisions to Use MTSS to Achieve Extraordinary Results
	Michele Douglass	Improving Instruction to Close the Achievement Gap Grades 3-12
	Mark McBeth	Be Informed - To Transform - So Students Perform


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