1. Pre-Reading Assignment
Access the District Capacity Assessment (DCA) and your district’s baseline DCA data
Read the DCA (introduction and scoring guide)
As you are reading each item outlined in the scoring guide, reflect on the following:
Why would it be important for my district to have this DCA item fully in place?
Which DCA items might others in the district need to be convinced that they are important to the district to focus efforts?
Note any confirmation or surprises after reviewing your district’s baseline DCA data.

2. District Installation Coaching Support Session Series
miblsi.org

3. Session Materials
DIT Coaching Support Session Series participant workbook
DIT Installation Series Preparation Routine
DIT Installation Series binder
You will need both of these materials for each of the coaching support sessions for this school year since a majority of the sessions focus on preparing to facilitate activities during the DIT Installation Series

4. Differentiating DIT Coaching Support Sessions
Sections of the DIT Coaching Support Session content will be differentiated if the people attending the DIT Coaching Support Sessions have the following experiences and background knowledge:
Attended the DIT Pre-Session
Participated in the baseline District Capacity Assessment data collection
Participate in the MIBLSI ISD supported district model
Extensive background knowledge in implementation science and the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) capacity assessments

5. Outcomes
Define the MIBLSI coaching supports accessible to district partners
Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities of MTSS coordinators in how to install and successfully use the components of an implementation infrastructure
Prepare to facilitate activities designed to enhance the district’s capacity by developing processes and products to support the selection and successful use of effective innovations

6. Michigan’s Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative
1.0 MIBLSI Collaboration
Michigan’s Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative

7. Defining MIBLSI
Funded by the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education and through various grants from the U.S. Department of Education
Intensive technical assistance program for the successful use of an integrated behavior and reading MTSS model

8. Defining MIBLSI (cont.)
MIBLSI is intensive technical assistance because it encompasses:
A four-year professional learning series in three main areas: (1) PBIS; (2) School-Wide Reading Model; (3) School-Wide Content Area Reading Model
Professional learning is for targeted audiences (district team, school leadership teams, grade-level teams, school coaches, school staff) across the four years
Use of specific assessments and data systems related to the three main areas of support
On-site coaching for your district team and for the initial set-up and use of the assessments and data systems

9. MIBLSI’s District-Wide Approach
All schools that are within a traditional K-12 educational setting will learn and successfully use the components of an integrated behavior and reading MTSS model
Schools can either be divided into two cohorts (separated by one school year) or be encompassed in one cohort that will begin accessing professional learning this winter
Once schools begin accessing professional learning the cohort designation cannot be changed

10. MIBLSI’s District-Wide Approach (cont.)
Schools need to be supported across the implementation process
Your district is creating an implementation infrastructure to support schools (to be defined next)
It encompasses:
Forming a District Implementation Team
Ensuring there is a conduit from central office (called a Liaison) who is represented on the team
Identifying a MTSS Coordinator

11. Activity 1.1
Designees from your district applied to collaborate with MIBLSI
If you have not had an opportunity to read your district’s application and review the following supplemental documents provided by MIBLSI we will take some time to do that now
Your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist will provide you with the following:
District MIBLSI application
Professional learning scope and sequence
Rationale for Required Assessments

12. 2.0 MIBLSI Coaching Supports

13. Meet Your District Coach!
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Meet Your District Coach!

14. Recipients of MIBLSI Coaching Supports
District Implementation Team (DIT)
MTSS Coordinator: most frequent coaching recipient
Liaison: frequent coaching recipient
Other team members: during scheduled meetings
Executive leadership team (cabinet): as needed to support the work of the DIT
Administrative team: as needed to support the DIT’s work in developing school readiness

15. MIBLSI Coaching Timelines
years
Frequent supports throughout the first year
Attendance at all DIT meetings
Preparation with the MTSS Coordinator before and after scheduled DIT meetings
Depending on your DIT’s progress over the course of the first year, coaching support may fade and be transitioned to the MTSS Coordinator

16. Focus of Coaching (Broadest Level)
Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities of teachers / practitioners
Encourage reflection and accurate self-reporting using data
Provide personal support
Time allocation is different depending on whether the recipient (team / practitioner) is a novice or experienced learner

17. Coaching Time Allocation
Novice Learners
Experienced Learners
Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities of teachers / practitioners: 60% of coaching time
Encourage reflection and accurate self-reporting using data: 20% of coaching time
Provide personal support: 20% of coaching time
Develop knowledge, skills, and abilities of teachers / practitioners : 20% of coaching time
Encourage reflection and accurate self-reporting using data: 60% of coaching time
Provide personal support: 20% of coaching time

18. Focus of Coaching (Moving Towards Narrow)
District Capacity Assessment is your district’s roadmap for developing its capacity to select and adequately support “effective innovations” in a sustainable way

19. Focus of Coaching (Narrow)
DIT Coaching Service Delivery Plan:
Categorizes the items of the DCA into coaching concepts / skills
Further delineates the coaching of the concepts / skills over time
Outlines how those concepts will be coached and evaluated to determine their impact

20. Activity 2.1
Access the DIT Coaching Service Delivery Plan and your DCA reflections that were Pre-Reading prior to coming to today’s session
Your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist will provide you with an overview of the DIT Coaching Service Delivery Plan (its structure, components, etc.)
Share with your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist your reflections on the DCA and your district’s baseline data

21. MTSS Coordinator (Internal Coach) Responsibilities
Engage in independent reading of all DIT Installation Series materials to be better prepared for the sessions
Gather any documents or previous work that might overlap with what is being asked in the installation series module so the team can build upon work that aligns and has already been started
Practice using the tools and processes for the DIT concepts / skills before each DIT Installation session

22. MTSS Coordinator (Internal Coach) Responsibilities (cont.)
Speak with the MIBLSI Implementation Specialist (external coach) before and after all DIT meetings to review what information will be added to the DIT meeting agenda, update the status of action items, and debrief the meetings
Over time, the MIBLSI coaching supports provided to the DIT will begin to fade while the MTSS Coordinator’s coaching supports to the team will gradually increase over the course of the next 1-2 years

23. 3.0 District Implementation Infrastructure

24. Implementation Infrastructure Components
Comprised of three components with distinct functions and two distinct roles:
Entities:
Executive Leadership
Administrative Team
District Implementation Team (DCA item 1)
Roles: (identified during the District Pre-Session)
Liaison (DCA item 2)
MTSS Coordinator (DCA item 3)

25. District Implementation Infrastructure
District Executive Leadership
Vision
Policy
Priority
Allocation of resources
Barrier removal
District Implementation Team
K-12 perspective for EI use
Provides input and assists with shaping district processes and procedures that will ensure good selection and sustained use of EIs
Data analysis and on-going planning
Communication of successes and barriers impeding EI use
Liaison
MTSS Coordinator
Administrative Team
Execute the district’s vision
Provide oversight and governance for school policies
Quality assurance in the use of curriculum materials, instructional methodologies, and assessments Barrier removal
Implementation Supports
Use of processes and procedures designed to ensure high-quality use and sustainability of EIs
Communication of barriers
Effective use of data
Schools

26. Activity 3.1
Access the document titled, “Defining the District Implementation Infrastructure”
Your executive leaders and school principals read this document and selected people to fulfill the Liaison role, your role as the MTSS Coordinator and the District Implementation Team
Take some time now to read the document
As you are reading, identify sections where you need clarification or have questions; especially related to your role as the MTSS Coordinator
Your District Implementation Team will also be reading this document. Can you anticipate clarification they will need or questions they might ask?

27. 4.0 Overview of the District Implementation Team Installation Series

28. Essential Questions
Districts with a well-functioning implementation infrastructure should be asking these questions when they meet:
How many schools are implementing? (e.g., behavior and reading MTSS components)
How well are they implementing?
What is the impact on student outcomes?
What are barriers to implementation and how can the barriers be addressed?

29. Essential Questions (cont.)
The foundation to being able to answer the four questions is because:
The DIT Installation Series has focused on your district’s capacity to select, support, and sustain the use of effective innovations (District Capacity Assessment)
Module 4 of the Installation Series focuses on organizing the DIT for success to be able to answer the essential questions

30. DIT Installation Series: Fall
Day 1:
Module 1: Introduction to implementation research and terminology that will be used throughout the series
Module 2: Defining school readiness and developing readiness activities for each of the two cohorts of schools
Module 3: Defining an “assessment system” and overview of data coordination supports provided to the district / schools
Module 4: Organizing and structuring the DIT for success

31. DIT Installation Series: Fall (cont.)
Day 2:
Module 5: Communication plan and process for addressing barriers
Module 6: Coaching system (district expectations, selection guidelines, coaching responsibilities)
Day 3:
Module 7: Process for aligning effective innovations
Module 8: Process for reviewing and selecting effective innovations

32. DIT Installation Series: Spring
Day 4:
Module 9: District data review for the installation of Tier 1 PBIS installation
Module 10: Developing effective innovation fluency in the reading components of an integrated MTSS Model and anticipating potential barriers

33. Activity 4.1
Access the document titled, “District Implementation Team Installation Checklist”
This document outlines all the installation module assignments for the school year
Anything in bold means that particular checklist item involves executive leadership (cabinet)
This checklist is in MIDATA (MIBLSI’s database) and will be updated on a regular basis
Your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist will review the checklist items with you for each DIT Installation module

34. 5.0 MIDATA: MIBLSI’s Database
Overview, Registration, and User Access

35. MIDATA Overview
MIBLSI’s primary system used for housing data and training event information, as well as for project reporting
Also provides data dashboards and reports that are available to schools, districts, and even ISDs to engage in an on-going data review process

36. Unique Features of MIDATA
A place to enter and analyze capacity and fidelity data that are not hosted in any other data system
Dashboards and reports are designed for alignment with MIDATA data review process at the school, district, and ISD levels

37. Unique Features of MIDATA (cont.)
A single and SIMPLE point of data entry (school-level) that aggregates data up to the district, ISD, and state levels (This does NOT really mean you will be duplicating data entry)
Data dashboard designs are as based on principles for effective display of data and information processing that are combined with repeated cycles of usability testing

38. Streamlining Data Analysis

39. What’s missing from other data systems?
Easy aggregating of school data to make district-wide decisions
Context regarding upcoming professional learning sessions
Integrating behavior, reading, AND fidelity data analysis for problem solving

40. Activity 5.1 Access the document titled, “MIDATA Registration”
Work with your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist to follow the steps in being able to register yourself in MIDATA (if you are not already registered) and then be able to be assigned “user access”
Your DIT will be registering themselves in MIDATA after the first DIT Installation session and you will work with your Implementation Specialist to assign each of them user access

41. 6.0 Preparing to Facilitate the DIT Installation Series
Developing Fluency in DIT Coaching Concepts and in the Effective Innovation

42. Preparation Routine

43. Timelines for Completing Section Activities
There are four activity slides in this section that are designed to focus your work for the remainder of today (activity 6.1) and the remaining three DIT Installation Coaching Support Sessions Continue bringing this participant workbook and your DIT Installation Binder to all of your coaching support sessions

44. Activity 6.1 DIT Installation Series 1 should encompass modules 1 – 4
Access the DIT Installation Series binder and work with your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist to review the contents of each of the modules
For each module, use the preparation routine outlined
Consider taking a moment to get organized by creating a shared document that will outline thoughts, next steps, and any assigned activities

45. Activity 6.2
DIT Installation Series 2 should encompass modules 5 and 6
Access the DIT Installation Series binder and work with your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist to review the contents of each of the modules
For each module, use the preparation routine outlined

46. Activity 6.3
DIT Installation Series 3 should encompass modules 7 and 8
Access the DIT Installation Series binder and work with your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist to review the contents of each of the modules
For each module, use the preparation routine outlined

47. Activity 6.4
DIT Installation Series 4 should encompass modules 9 and 10
Access the DIT Installation Series binder and work with your MIBLSI Implementation Specialist to review the contents of each of the modules
For each module, use the preparation routine outlined