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 The Solutions Network coordinates community, family, and school
resources to ensure motivated, healthy, well-cared for
students who enthusiastically focus all of their energy
on learning. Solutions 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. Solutions
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. Solutions 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 five major target areas:
- Attendance
- Intervention Team
- Parent and Family Involvement
- Community Connections
- Schoolwide Behavior/Getting Along Together
The Solutions program 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, Solutions 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 more.
- 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 Manual for
every team member
- Training booklets
- Solution Sheets
- Solutions 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, onsite 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 Network and your
SFAF coach will develop specific schoolwide goals and
outcomes focusing on the five targeted Solutions
areas of attendance, intervention, family
involvement, schoolwide behavior, and community connections. All 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 Network and
clarify its function.
- Initial preventive planning with
the Solutions Network 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 Network
serve to establish targets and interventions
for the following quarter.
The initial training prepares Solutions Network members,
teachers, administrators, school counselors/psychologists,
and staff to implement a schoolwide systems approach
to increase attendance rates to 95% or more, 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 Team, Parent and Family Involvement,
Community Connections, and Schoolwide Behavior/Getting Along Together) 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 Network will work with administration
to establish mechanisms to connect program data to
achievement data.
The onsite visits and telephone consultations are designed
to provide Solutions Network 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 Network in gaining confidence,
expertise, and success in achieving their goals.
- Two days additional follow-up onsite
planning and coaching are provided for each school.
These visits provide opportunities to review program
implementation, debrief case discussions, measure
progress, solve problems, and 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 Solutions?
Please call and talk to one of our staff members at
(800) 548-4998, ext. 2372, or fill out the information
request form online.
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