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 The
Solutions Team coordinates community, family, and school
resources to ensure motivated, healthy, well-cared for
students who enthusiastically focus all of their energy
on learning. The Solutions Team’s school-based
members work hand-in-hand with school staff, families,
and community members to increase attendance, deepen
family involvement, and add resources to prevent and
solve problems leading to poor achievement. The Solutions
Team is designed to focus on those children who are
not succeeding despite standard program interventions—those
children who are falling through the cracks. Their problems
may be due to academic, behavioral, social, health,
or attendance issues. The Solutions Team works relentlessly
to ensure success for every child. It accomplishes this
through positive, solution-focused collaboration between
educators, families, and community members.
This broad-based programming focuses
on four major target areas:
- Attendance
- School-Based Intervention
- Family Involvement
- Service Integration
The Solutions Team helps to meet the
requirements of No Child Left Behind. Extensive prevention
and intervention efforts are primary ingredients of
the NCLB legislation. In meeting the requirements of
NCLB, the Solutions Team helps schools address important
targeted areas:
- Developing targeted prevention
and intervention plans for special populations.
- Establishing clear mechanisms to
achieve attendance rates of 95% or above.
- Demonstrating clear procedures
for building successful plans for students before
they reach the special education referral stage.
- Building positive and productive
partnerships with families and community members.
- Solutions Team Manual for
every team member
- Training booklets
- “Solution Sheets”
- Solutions Team Video Series (Attendance,
School-Based Intervention Case Discussion, Family
Involvement)
- Attendance cards, family outreach
cards, and meeting notification cards
A partnership is developed between the SFAF staff and
your school through training sessions, on-site visits,
scheduled telephone conferences, quarterly progress
reports, and informal telephone support. Ongoing professional
development can be customized to the needs of your staff.
As the school year begins, the Solutions team and your
SFAF coach will develop specific school-wide goals and
outcomes focusing on the four target Solutions Team
areas of attendance, school-based intervention, family
involvement, and service integration. All of these activities
are geared to help your school attain better student
achievement.
- School leaders and your SFAF Coach
will work together to build the Solutions Team and
clarify its function.
- Initial preventive planning with
the Solutions Team utilizes school data and input
from school leaders, parents, and the community to
develop a comprehensive plan that is tied to the academic
needs of the school’s students and geared to
help schools reach their AYP goals.
- Quarterly monitoring of progress
toward identified school goals and periodic sessions
to examine data with leadership and the Solutions
Team serve to establish targets and interventions
for the following quarter.
The initial training prepares the Solutions Team members,
teachers, administrators, school counselors/psychologists,
and staff to implement a school-wide systems approach
to increase attendance rates to 95% or above, build
plans to assist students demonstrating below-grade-level
achievement, involve families as active partners in
student success, and create partnerships with community
members and organizations to increase student achievement.
- One day of initial training is
provided, usually occurring before the start of the
school year for the team and the staff.
- Training includes the program essentials
(Attendance, Intervention Planning, Family Involvement,
and Service Integration) and the identification of
relevant data collection points.
- Data collection and a tracking
system will be identified for the attendance program,
case discussion outcomes, and family and community
involvement. The Solutions Team will work with administration
to establish mechanisms to connect program data to
achievement data.
The on-site visits and telephone consultations are designed
to provide the Solutions Team members, teachers, administrators,
and all school staff further training and support for
the implementation of the attendance plan, the pre-referral
intervention process, and strategies for family and
community involvement. The SFAF coaching support will
assist the staff and the Solutions Team in gaining confidence,
expertise, and success in achieving their goals.
- Two days additional follow-up on-site
planning and coaching are provided for each school.
These visits provide opportunities to review program
implementation, debrief case discussions, measure
progress, solve problems, and to discuss planning
and goal setting.
- An additional day of cluster training
is provided for school teams with particular emphasis
on data monitoring, family involvement strategies,
and advanced intervention skills.
- Four scheduled telephone meetings
per year provide continuity and follow-up.
Do you want to learn more about the Solutions Team?
Please call and talk to one of our staff members at
1-800-548-4998, ext.2372, or fill out the information
request form online.
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