Intervention Strategies in Maine Schools

A Project of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee

Rae Bates, Katahdin Middle/High School, Stacyville
Deborah Emery, Henry L. Cottrell School, Monmouth
Matt Haney, Mount Desert Island High School
Patrick Hartnett, Leavitt Area High School, Turner
Barbara Hathorn, Scarborough Middle School
Carol Hathorne (Chair), Hope Elementary School
Donna Lisnik, Presque Isle High School
Juliana Richard, Dexter Middle School and Exeter Consolidated School

A major focus of the work of the Maine Principals’ Association’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee lies in the answer to two questions:

• What are we doing to address students who aren’t learning?
• What interventions hold the most promise?

In person, in surveys, and in conference evaluations, members have told the committee they are curious about what other Maine schools are doing and are hungry for information about specific strategies that they might replicate in their own schools.

Using the following definition for “intervention,” “…provide[s] students with additional time and support for learning as soon as they experience difficulty” (Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, et al., Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn. Bloomington, Indiana: Solution Tree, 2004, p.7.), the committee collected, in late fall 2009 and winter 2010, examples of tier one, two, and three interventions for both academics and behavior as well as universal screening tools being implemented in Maine schools.

It is with great pleasure that we are able to share with you the responses from forty-seven different schools.  This information covers all grade levels and all areas of the state. For convenience, we have divided the document into sections – Elementary, K-8, Middle Level, Middle/High School, High School, and K-12.   Please feel free to replicate any of the interventions in your own school and to contact any of the schools listed to receive more complete information. 

Furthermore, the information presented should be viewed as a beginning and not a be-all-and-end-all.  We encourage members to forward other examples of interventions and universal screening tools that are being used in their schools to the MPA so that we can add them to our repertoire.  Please use the attached Intervention Information form to share what your school is doing in this arena.

(April 2010; Revised December 2010)

The intervention strategies are organized by grade level. Click on the link of the grade level you wish to download or to download all of the interventions (approximately 58 pages) click here.

Elementary Interventions
K-8 Interventions
Middle Level Interventions
Middle/High School (6-12) Interventions
High School (9-12) Interventions
K-12 Interventions

Other selections include:
Resources/Bibliography
Intervention Information Form

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