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We are required by the state to use a screener on all of our K-3 students. We use STAR by Renaissance. All of those who score at-risk have plans written for them. I rank-order the students according to those tests and get teacher-input on whom I serve. I can’t possibly work with everyone who scores “at-risk”.
I had way too many kids I was trying to work with last year. I had 16 1st graders alone. I was only able to see them twice a week. I had at least that many or more each in 2nd and 3rd. I won’t do that next year. The best advice I can give is to keep your caseload numbers down like you have them now. I think I would do more good by seeing fewer students more often. I’d like to be able to move more students off of the plan and work my way down the rank order list.
We look at their standardized tests and also chat with their prior year teachers to determine the need for parent permission to screen them ( grades 3 and above ). The youngers, we look at classroom performance, DIBELS scores and also teacher referrals
We look at testing data to prioritize, then meet with teachers to get their impressions. We test all kids coming in before school starts when they come in to meet their teachers.