These slides were taken from: Practice Profiles Melissa Nantais, Ph.D. Professional Learning Coordinator Michigan’s Integrated Behavior & Learning Supports Initiative (MiBLSi)

“Research and field implementation efforts tell us that RtI can work, but do not ensure that it will work in schools…RtI is vulnerable to the same misuse and subsequent abandonment that has plagued generations of educational innovations” (VanDerHeyden & Tilly, 2010) As the State Design Team we want to create an easy to understand & useful tool school personnel can use.

So what are Practice Profiles anyway?? ●Practice profiles operationally define the core activities of a practice ●Practice profiles describe the core activities that allow a model to be teachable, learnable, and doable in typical human service settings ●Practice profiles promote consistency across practitioners at the level of actual service delivery ●Practice profiles consist of measurable, behaviorally-based indicators for each core activity

A Practice Profile is a tool that serves three purposes: ★ Communication Tool ★ Planning Tool ★ Improvement Tool

MiBSLi Practice Profiles creates capacity for an integrated Behavior and Acadmic Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) that can be implemented with fidelity, is sustainable over time and utilizes data-based decision making at all levels of implementation support.

Practice Profiles ●Identifies critical components ●For each critical component: ○Identifies gold standard ○Identifies acceptable variations in practice ○Identifies ineffective practices and undesirable practices Adapted from the work of W. David Tilly III, and Heartland Area Education Agency 11, Iowa State Implementation and Scaling Up Initiative

Practice Profiles Provide the User Linkage to.. ●Implementation Science ●Stages of Implementation ●Implementation Drivers

Practice Profiles can be a universal tool used for multiple purposes by school districts or at the building level no matter where they are at with implementation … ●as a guide for implementing 5 basic components of the MTSS Model ●as a sustainable MTSS Model for Academics and Behavior ●as an improvement tool ●as a training guide for new staff/ program review guide for existing staff ●as an MTSS program evaluation tool ●as a “next steps” guide

Critical Features of MTSS Practice Profiles Academics and Behavior 5 Identified Critical Components 1.Universal Screening 2.Progress Monitoring 3.Data Based Decision Making & Problem Solving 4.Evidence Based Core Curriculum & Continuum of Interventions 5.Focus on Fidelity of Implementation

Defining Practice Profiles Anything to the left of the line (emerging practice/acceptable variation or ideal) is okay! Critical Componet Ideal “Gold Standard” of the Component Emerging Practice (Acceptable Variation) Unacceptable Variation Harmful Variation

Our Work: State Design Team Members Continue the “Feedback Loop Cycle” and prepare for our retreat by: Dividing into working groups Reviewing the MiBLES Basic Components Practice Profiles Providing feedback on each PP through the lens of questions: 1. Is the PP understandable to potential users? 2. Is anything missing from the PP for this component of the model? 3. Does the PP work for both MTSS academic and behavior screening or other components? If not what is missing? Each group could meet between August 26 - SDT Retreat