Adequate Yearly Progress

20 Strategies for Improving AYP Status for Students with Disabilities

This session addresses the timely topic of the challenge of improving Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status when students with disabilities are the subgroup of concern. This session outlines a process for identifying systems issues, instructional delivery issues, and decision-making concerns that are impacting AYP attainment.

This training features 20 steps our firm finds essential when working with schools to improve the performance of students with disabilities. These 20 steps are categorized across three broad systems issues:

Learner Outcomes

This training is designed for principals, assistant principals, and central office administrators.

Each participant will learn:

• To reinforce to students that intelligence is dynamic
•  A framework for cultural proficiency
•  Process skills students need and how to explicitly teach them
•  The missing link: healthier students are better learners
•  Steps for building authentic relationships with students and families
•  To evaluate the effectiveness of in-class supports
•  The importance of pre-assessments to pinpoint starting points and interests
•  To Substitute “Accelerated” strategies instead of “Remediation” approaches
•  To increase the use of flexible grouping to maximize student instructional time
•  Coaching cycles and techniques, including “Coaching Heavy”
•  Four essential types of academic “time” and how they impact academic learning time

Recommended Training Sequence

Training Packages

You may wish to select from one of the packaged trainings below, or contact us for a customized proposal based on your goals and district size.

*Cost includes consulting fees only. Travel expenses will be billed separately.