Purpose:

The Purpose of Mountain Brook Schools is to provide an effective, challenging, and engaging education for every one of our students.

Summer Camps

Students will make measurable growth based on a variety of assessments (pre and post aimswebPlus assessments, progress monitoring, intervention based monitoring probes), and therefore increase their reading confidence.  

Students will foster a love of reading in a fun, positive environment to build a strong and confident reading identity.

Teachers will meet individual student needs through explicit, one-on-one, and small group instruction in a structured learning environment.

Teachers will provide families with strategies and materials to support continued learning at home. 

Summer Program Description:

MBS Summer Reading Camp will provide effective, challenging, and engaging reading instruction and experiences to all students who participate.  Students will have the opportunity to receive direct, explicit, and systematic reading instruction and intervention on a daily basis.  Instructional methods will include multi-sensory strategies that meet the unique needs of each learner.  Participants will be assessed using aimswebPlus progress monitoring tools, BAS Running Records, and other tools that assess foundational language skills.  MBS Summer Reading Camp will be staffed by highly qualified MBS teachers who are extensively trained in providing this type of instruction.  This is open to any student with a identified with reading deficiency, students who have a Student Reading Improvement Plan, students in grades 2 and 3 who scored below the 26th percentile on aimswebPlus in winter or spring, EL Students, special ed students and previous virtual students.

Continuous Instruction and Intervention Services for students

When students begin the intervention process (Tier II or Tier III), they will continue in that process until they have attained grade-level standards and skills or until they are referred to the next level.  The Student Support Team (SST) is to help guide general education intervention services for all students who have academic or behavior difficulties, including those students who exhibit the characteristics of dyslexia or have suffered learning loss due to the pandemic. The SST supports the school’s successful implementation of the Response to Instruction (RtI) framework.

The SST is responsible for the decisions which ensure that:

 (1) students receive instruction and interventions matched to their identified needs,

(2) appropriate progress monitoring tools are utilized to provide evidence of students’ response to instruction and intervention, and

(3) progress monitoring data are used to make timely instructional decisions which maximize student outcomes.

Participants will be assessed using aimswebPlus progress monitoring tools for reading and math, BAS Running Records, and other tools that assess foundational language skills.  MBS Summer Reading Camp will be staffed by highly qualified MBS teachers who are extensively trained in providing this type of instruction.  This is open to any student with a identified with reading deficiency, students who have a Student Reading Improvement Plan, students in grades 2 and 3 who scored below the 26th percentile on aimswebPlus in winter or spring, EL Students, special ed students and previous virtual students.

Invitations for Summer Camp will be given to parents of students with SRIPs beginning at Spring Conferences and continuing through the end of the year as the data indicates a need. Confirmation letters will be sent to parents who were invited to attend on April 21st with a deadline to return by April 30th. 

During the school day, interventionists will work with students in Tiers II and III using research based programs to ensure that students who are not a grade level or have suffered learning loss due to the pandemic will receive specialized instruction to make gains in reading and math. This will be determined by aimswebPLUS screening in reading and math and reviewed by the student support team.  These students will have specific plans and will be progress monitored to determine rate of improvement and measure achievement of specific goals.

After school tutoring 

Attendance 

Daily attendance will be recorded on a paper roster. The coordinator will collect daily and record on the state documentation spreadsheets. 

Instructional decisions will be based on data collected.  

• Classroom Teacher Input Form 

  • What motivates this student so that we can have optimal work completion?  

  • Any behavior concerns? 

  • Recent data (F&P, Words Their Way, Writing Prompt, aimswebPlus (ORF, NWF, WRF), additional writing samples

  • Intervention Data (programming and progress monitoring)

  • Communication with parents

  • Classroom teachers will provide consumable materials - Student Workbooks and Intervention Workbooks 

• Assessment Tools for the camp

  • AimswebPlus progress monitoring

  • Fountas and Pinnell Running Records 

  • Beginning and End On-Demand Writing Prompts

  • AIMSWeb progress monitoring and data availability; PAST (LETRS); Phonics and Word-Reading Survey (LETRS)

Intervention Approved Programs

• SPIRE

• MSLE

• SONDAY

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• We will identify and engage students by using the following data.
  

  • AimswebPlus progress monitoring for reading and math

  • Fountas and Pinnell Running Records 

  • Beginning and End On-Demand Writing Prompts

  • AIMSWeb progress monitoring and data availability; PAST (LETRS); Phonics and Word-Reading Survey (LETRS)

  • Research based math interventions

  • previous virtual school participant

  • Attendance data