Services

The following services are among the menu of services that the Midwest Instructional Leadership Council (miLc) can provide.

If there are questions about services that the Midwest Leadership Council can provide or if there are services that you believe would benefit your school or district, please contact John H Faust via email John H Faust. 

You can also use the Consultation Request Form (Consultation Request Form (Word); Consultation Request Form (PDF)) to request no cost consultation for your district and/or school.  Please complete the form and send via email to miLc Consultation or mail it via the US Postal Service to the following address:

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Description of Services

Organizational Assessment

The Midwest Instructional Leadership Council has developed an organizational assessment that provides and outside perspective on the status of a district's and/or school's level of implementation of response to intervention as a model of educational service delivery for all students.The Midwest Instructional Leadership Council views response to intervention and continuous school improvement as interchangeable constructs.  It has been our experience that district's and/or schools experience challenges when it comes to assessing where they are at in terms of implementation of any given initiative.  Sometimes an outside perspective is necessary to provide data on what to consider and next steps to take.  The organizational assessment serves as a mirror for the educational leaders in a school district and/or school.  We will not tell you what to do, but we will provide information from an outside perspective on what to think about.  For an overview of the organizational assessment please click this link Organizational Assessment Overview.

The organizational assessment has several components.  The first component is an online survey that is open for all district and/or school staff to take.  The online survey provides some demographic information, but provides insight into the beliefs of staff in terms of response to intervention and the practices surrounding response to intervention that are in place in the district.  The second component of the organizational assessment are focus group interviews with district level and building level leadership teams.  The focus group interviews provide an opportunity for district level and building level leadership teams to discuss their perceptions of implementation status.  These focus group interviews generally take approximately 60-90 minutes of time per leadership team.  The third component of the organizational assessment is a general overview of district and school performance data and a review of artifacts. 

Once the organizational assessment is completed, the Midwest Instructional Leadership Council provides written and oral reports to the district level and building level  leadership teams.  The oral reports are generally provided to the same district level and building level leadership teams that participated in the focus group interviews.  Findings are reported to the teams and, time permitting, discussion on the results occur.  The Midwest Instructional Leadership Council employs the use of a rubric to establish a point in time rating on where a district and/or school is at based on the categories of not implementing, consensus, infrastructure, implementation, and sustainability.  The rubric employed by the Midwest Instructional Leadership Council can be located in the Organizational Assessment Overview  The written reports also include charts outlining survey results focusing on beliefs and practices.  Please select one of the following links to see examples of Beliefs Chart - Example, Practices Chart - Example, and an overall summary of Beliefs and Practices Example.

To learn more about the organizational assessment, please contact John H Faust via email at John H Faust 

Curriculum Alignment

The alignment of intended, enacted, assessed, and learned curriculum is an under-examined and misunderstood aspect of the educational process and often taken for granted. Despite this relative lack of attention, the term alignment can often be seen in the documents we read and the conversations we have with our colleagues. Alignment is a term that means different things to different people. So, how do we define curriculum alignment, and why does it matter?

At miLc, we define curriculum alignment as "the extent to which and how well all policy elements work together to guide instruction and, ultimately, facilitate and enhance student learning." (Webb, 1997). We believe curriculum alignment matters because it has been linked to positive outcomes for students. Examples of this positive impact on student learning can be found here and here. 

Below are the curriculum alignment services we offer.

Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) Series

Iowa Curriculum Alignment Toolkit (I-CAT) Series

DIBELS Next

The Midwest Instructional Leadership Council is proud to offer DIBELS Next training by certified DIBELS Next trainer, Ed O'Connor Ph.D.  To learn more about DIBELS Next training please click here: DIBELS Next Training.

For more information and/or consultation on DIBELS Next, please e-mail Ed O'Connor certified DIBELS trainer or contact Ed at 608-516-0457.

Secondary Level Applications of RtI  

The Midwest Leadership Council is proud to offer training on secondary applications of response to intervention at the secondary (middle and/or high school) level through Elizabeth Witter Freeman, Ph.D.  Elizabeth has experience working with secondary level applications of RtI.  For additional information and/or consultation on secondary RtI applications, please fee free to e-mail Elizabeth Witter Freeman or contact Elizabeth at 608-347-1716.

Please click here to learn more about how the Midwest Instructional Leadership Council can assist your organization with secondary applications of Response to Intervention: Secondary Applications of RtI Service Description 

 RtI 101 - The Basic Concepts and Principles Behind Problem-solving/Response to Intervention   

The Midwest Instructional Leadership Council can provide your district, school or organization with training on the basic concepts, principles, constructs, and tenets of a problem-solving/response to intervention model of educational service delivery designed to meet the needs of all students.  this training can be offered in either half-day or full day format and can be tailored to meet the needs of the specific audience for whom the training is intended.

For more information on this training, please click here: RtI 101 Training .  For more information and/or consultation, please e-mail John H Faust or contact John at the Home Office (608-244-6573) or at the Mobile Office (608-219-5160).