AmeriCorps Promise Fellows Kickoff!

1. AmeriCorps Promise FellowsKickoff! Promise Fellow Model

2. Goals/Agenda • Training – Small Corps Group, Calendar, and Deadlines • MTSS – Roles of a Promise Fellow • Identifying Focus List Students – Referral Process • Attendance • Behavior through SEI • Interventions • Promise Fellow Activities (NEW!) • Site Activities • Tools to Collect Baseline • Expectations for Small Corps #1 Parking Lot Put any questions that you have on sticky notes on the back of the room throughout our time together

3. Training – Corps, Calendar, & Deadlines

4. Multi Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) • Youth Success Teams (including Promise Fellows) provide a continuum of supports • to youth by: • Continually collecting and analyzing student Attendance, Engagement, and Work Completion • Forming and maintaining Focus Lists • Planning and implementing strategies

5. Focus List Youth Sep Starts Baseline Benchmark  Oct 19th Oct Starts Baseline Benchmark  Nov 16th Nov Starts Baseline Benchmark  Dec 21st Qualify! Can’t Qualify! Qualify! Only need 3 students for Small Corps #1! Sep 25th – Oct 5th

6. Promise Fellow Program: Referral Process for Support • Referral Process • Attendance • Less than 90% attendance rate • OR • Tardy to school greater or equal to 40% • OR • Behavior • 100 or less score on Student Engagement Instrument Minnesota Alliance With Youth • Host Sites • Middle Schools • High Schools • Community Sites

7. Behavioral Referral - Student Engagement Instrument Overview • Developed by Dr. James Appleton, Gwinnett County Public Schools, and Dr. Sandra Christenson, University of Minnesota • Measures Psychological and Cognitive Engagement • Teacher-student relationships • Peer support for learning • Family Support for learning • Control and relevance to schoolwork • Future aspirations and goals • Intrinsic Motivations Psychological Engagement Cognitive Engagement

8. Student Engagement Instrument (SEI) Administration You’ll learn these in Youth Work 101 • Youth Success Team Identifies* Student Through: • Disengagement • Head down in class • Not Participating • Few positive relationships or supports • Punitive Behavior • Referrals, detentions, or suspension • *Not qualified for support yet Create Relationship using Establish, Maintain, & Restore Target students who have been identified Use Establish techniques to intentionally build positive relationships • Administer SEI • Choose the way that will promote the most engagement: • Written Survey • Informational Interview (one on one) • Online Survey (access SC#1)

9. SEI Administration Administration • Instructed during Kickoff • Need to have worked on building positive intentional relationship first • Taught how to record with OnCorps during Small Corps #1 • Need 3 students for this meeting Time Needed • 20-30 minutes Form • Paper and pencil • Online Version (available after SC #1) Behavior Threshold • Need to have 100 or less (out of 140)

10. SEI Role Play Today Ihave a engagement questionnaire to learn about your experiences while attending school this year. Your feelings and opinions of your educational experience have a tremendous impact on academic engagement and motivation. Your responses will be confidential. Your honest answers will help me create a more engaging school environment.

11. Student Engagement Instrument Scoring Behavior 100 or less score on Student Engagement Instrument • Total SEI Score is made by • Adding up every number that is selected • Inversing questions 18 & 32 which represent Intrinsic Motivation • Ex. If the student selected a 1, you should change that to be a 4 for totaling their score. • It is better to answer lower on these two questions 4 3 2 1 Add up your totals on the SEI’s that you did together!

12. Attendance • Less than 90% attendance rate • Tardy to school greater or equal to 40% Attendance Referral Quiz Which of these students qualify to be served? Student 5: In semester 2 of 2017-18, missed 10 out of 87 days Student 6: In quarter 1 of 2018-19, missed first hour 10 out of 42 days Student 7: In trimester 1, attended 53 out of 58 days Student 8: In quarter 4 of 2018-19, attended 40 out of 48 days Student 1: In 2017-18, attended school 170 out of 182 days Student 2: In trimester 3 of 2017-18, missed 5 out of 58 days Student 3: In quarter 4, attended 12 out of 42 days Student 4: In the first two months of school, missed 4 out of 37 days

13. Work Completion Way to Show Engagement! Ranking Student has completed: 0 – 10% of work 10 – 20% of work 20 – 30% of work 30 – 40% of work 40 – 50% of work 50 – 60% of work 60 – 70% of work 70 – 80% of work 80 – 90% of work 90 – 100% or work Promise Fellows will ask for a summary student work completion from up to two classes/teachers • Only needed from the primary class or classes (up to 2) that the Promise Fellow is helping – needs to be a yearlong course • Can be found through: • Academic database OR Teacher Rating Q: What if student is at 70%? A: Always put them in the lower category so they can show growth! AKA 60 – 70%

14. Work Completion Form I’m in the toolbox! Please feel free to use as an email too

15. Promise Fellow Program: Referral Process Questions Minnesota Alliance With Youth • Referral Process • Attendance • Less than 90% attendance rate • OR • Tardy to school greater or equal to 40% • OR • Behavior • 100 or less score on Student Engagement Instrument (Need to have worked on building an INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIP prior to giving SEI) • Host Sites • Middle Schools • High Schools • Community Sites

16. Promise Fellow Program Caring Adults Supports Informal mentoring and tutoring • Promise Fellow Program Activities • Establish, Maintain, & Restore • Woop Goal Setting • Informational Interviewing Youth Develop Skills and Confidence Increased School & Community Engagement 90 % Graduation Service & Service Learning Out-of-School Supports After school or Out of School Building academic support, recreation, or cultural engrichment

17. Tools to Collect Baseline and Interventions

18. Get Your Trackers! • Go to mnyouth.net • Click AmeriCorps (top bar) • Click on Promise Fellow Toolbox (scroll down) • Click on Training Materials And Calendar

19. Get Your Trackers!  Small Corps #1 Resources Download and Open! • Work completion Handout Form • Intervention Tracker Template • OnCorps Baseline Tracker Template

20. Focus List Baseline Needs Required Optional (strongly encouraged) ELL or Limited English Proficiency Student with Disabilities, IEP, or 504 plan Eligible for Free or Reduced Lunch* Student Parent Currently or recently experiencing homelessness • Name • Gender • Birthdate • Race/Ethnicity • MARSS # • Baseline Data • Attendance, SEI*, & Work Completion

21. Expectations for Small Corps #1 AKA What you Need to Bring

22. Between Kickoff and Small Corps #1 Do/Bring the Following: • With your Supervisor & Youth Success Team, identify youth for your focus list • Need at least 3 for Small Corps #1 • Need 10 by October 19th • Bring Baseline Profile Information • Need all information in OnCorps Baseline Tracker • Bring Intervention Time • Need all information in Intervention Tracker