Speech Language Pathologist

Independent School District 196

January 8th 2015

Chocolate Personality Test

Special Dark
Patient, thoughtful, individualist, problem solver.
Likes to see a project through from start to
finish. Good grant writers, works well with
difficult people, insightful, reflective. Little
patience with incompetence or liars. Sets high
standards for self and others. Dependable,
resourceful and loyal.

Chocolate Personality Test

Mr. Goodbar
You are analytical, logical. You gather data first
before giving an opinion, play the devils
advocate at meetings, tend to see all the
possibilities and drive people crazy by sharing all
the what ifs. Hate deadlines, put off starting
things, procrastinator. Likes to be the expert but
in your own period. Can analyze things to death.
Like there to be rules that everyone follows.
Likes a lot of structure and hates surprises.

Chocolate Personality Test

Krackel
Creative, optimisic, always see the cup full,
messy (messy desk) but organized (eventually
find missing item). Likes to be hands-on person;
a little off-beat, ditzy, funny, friendly and
outgoing, always willing to help. Like the
surprising things in life the crackle. Like
situatiosn that follow flexibility, change and
growth.

Chocolate Personality Test

Milk Chocolate
You are an all American, loves baseball, Mom
and apple pie. Cheerleader for your program,
level headed, good PR person, great fundraiser,
and also kind, thoughtful, always remember
everyones birthday, playful. Nurturing, kind,
help others to shine, dependable and loyal.
Others often turn to you for help.

Create
vision/beliefs
around our work,
Speech Language
Services ECSE-T+

Create Community

Ongoing changes
in the district
which effect SLP
service delivery
models

Ground ourselves
for ongoing
continuous
improvement

Recognize growth
and challenges

Growth Mindset

Targets for today

Review work from October
Create Beliefs
Develop behaviors that align with the beliefs
Test Discussion/ Assessment tools

Meeting Norms for Today

The Four Agreements:

1. Stay Engaged
2. Speak Your Truth
3. Experience Discomfort
4. Expect and Accept Non-closure

District Initiatives
Literacy Collaborative
Lester Laminack
Sharroky Hollie
Middle School Expansion 6th grade Units of Study
Tier 3
VMS/AVHS STEM
Worlds Best Workforce
Mental Health Supports
Others.

Capacity Building RtI

Tier
3:
Shor
t
Burs
t

Tier 2:
Strategic,
Targeted,
and
Accelerate
d
Instructio
n

Beth Swenson
High Quality,
World Class Core
Instruction

Capacity Building RtI

Tier
3:
Shor
t
Burs
t

Beth Swenson

Tier 2:
Strategic,
Targeted,
and
Accelerate
d
Instructio
n
High Quality,
World Class Core
Instruction

Capacity Building RtI

Beth Swenson

Tier
3:
Shor
t
Tier 2:
Burs
Strategic,
t
Targeted,
and
Accelerate
d
Instructio
n
High
Quality,
World Class Core
Instruction

Alignment of Instructional Practices Pre K-6*

to Ensure and Accelerate Growth:

Celebrations

Speedy Speech
Relationships with Students/families
In depth evaluations across categorical areas
Student Successes
Collaboration with teams
Advocates for students who dont otherwise have a voice
Literacy Collaborative hidden outcome, see the expertise they bring
ECSE exposure to school
Students showing up
Student success stories

Challenges
Paperwork
Schedules
Different things going on understanding District vision and where we fit in
Caseload, difficult to cover all the needs and bring specialized skills to
support the students

Collaboration time, planning time

Range of needs
Disconnect between levels (ECSE/Elementary, etc.)
Communication back from supervisors
Building administration not understanding skill set
Lack of training, to SLPs (specific)
Need to remediate in small group

Challenges
Broad needs
Lack of data and/or data
School calendar
Getting expertise to the core Tier 2 & 3 work
Lack of input on literacy collaborative
Lack of subs
Lack of recognition
Lack of representation

SLP Mission Statement

Mission Statement
Our mission as Speech Language
Pathologists is to use our expertise to
positively impact, empower and support
individuals with communication disorders,
their families and educators through a
continuum of service in order to achieve the
learners highest level of independence and
success. These services are provided by a
skilled service provider with specialized
training guided by ASHAs scope of practice.

Beliefs
As you watch this video, please start thinking
about and/or writing:

What are your beliefs

About Speech Language Service in
Independent School District 196?

WHY do we do what we do?

WHY we do what we do?

WHY do we do what we do?

All behavior is rooted in our beliefs.
Before we discuss HOW we do should do things,
we need to discuss WHY we do things.

Beliefs
If I have the belief that I can
do it, I shall surely acquire the
capacity to do it even if I may
not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi

Beliefs
The main thing is to keep the
main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey

Reflect in your thinking:

What is our MAIN THING as Speech Language Pathologists?

Components of High Quality

SLP services
Examples might be

Quality Service
What do you believe about quality SLP service?

Push In Service
What do you believe about push in service for student?

Your thoughts

Beliefs - Process
Create questions using the beliefs that you
came prepared to share.

Share out questions

Process for determining a set of beliefs for
District 196 Speech Language Pathologists

Belief;
We believe
As educators, it is imperative to establish positive
student/teacher relationships.

Belief Statement
Examples
We believe
We need to build on the foundational skills that
students have in order to help them to be
successful in their natural environment.

Behaviors the HOW

Live your beliefs and you

can turn the world
around.
Henry David Thoreau

Identifying Behaviors that

Align with your beliefs
Looking at what you came with and the beliefs
that you came up with today, make a list of
behaviors that align with your beliefs.

Musical Shares - 3 people look across the room

and find a person that you will share a behavior
with

Current SLP Test

Discussion
As a Group (at your table)
Make a list of all tests currently being used
Include the date they were last updated
Any tests that need to be updated?
Any tests we should discontinue using?

Exit Slip
What was one thing you took away from our
work today?

If we continue to meet as this large group 2-3

times/year what topic ideas do you have?

Other reflections

Thank you for you work!