Let's Make It Personal!

Aaron LaMontagne, Partner Interval Technology Partners, LLC

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Let's Make it Personal

Throughout New England, middle and high schools have successfully incorporated a daily period of time for remediation and/or enrichment for all students, with great results.

How have schools been able to do this? Where did they find the time during the school day? It has to be additional work for the staff, right? How do they manage it? Has it been successful?

What are we talking about?


Back in late 2011, Conval High School in Peterborough, NH began to take a new look at how they were best supporting their students.

Based on a student asking for time for assistance.

High achieving student Excellent academics, student activities, athlete Why can't I see my teacher today during advisory for some assistance?

Where It All Started


How can we fit:

RTI and relearning, mentoring and advising, enrichments and extensions effectively into the

school day?


TEACHERS IN ACADEMIC SUPPORT CENTERS

TASC


Common threads that equate to success:

Staff buy in, all involved

All students involved – not just for struggling students, struggling students getting more than help. Enrichment as well.

Given an identity – TASC, iTime, Terrier Time

A model that works at the secondary level!


Other school schedules – found a similar time block, built it around lunch, end of day, two or three days per week.

Example Schedules


Example Schedules


How have students used this time?

Making up missed class/es Assessment retakes Additional practice Enrichment opportunities Relearning of essential skills Emotional support Guest speakers - graduate students studying

neurobiology – screen writer


Conval 31% decline in D and F grades after first full year of implementation.

83% of a student survey agreed orstrongly agreed that TASC offeredthem an opportunity to improvetheir learning

90% of a teachers survey rated activities duringTASC as effective or very effective in makingstudents more successful in their classes

Colchester, VT reported high parent approval.One comment: “Don't you dare take this away”.

The Results

Stats from: http://conval.edu/schools/CVHS/tasc/all-about-tasc


How do we manage this?

Solutions tried: Google Apps Excel spread sheets Hall passes Off the shelf scheduling software.


App Intro: Dashboard


App Intro: Take Attendance


App Intro: Scheduling Grid


App Intro: Scheduling Page


App Intro: Scheduling Page


App Intro: Analytics


App Intro: Student Access


SummaryChallenge to reach students continues to increase.

Available time for both students and staff continues to shrink.

How can you make the best use of the window of daily time that you have with students?

Having a fluid time block with the right technology tools has solved this problem for many schools.


Q & A

Aaron LaMontagne, Partner Interval Technology Partners, LLC

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