Student intervention early warning pilot program.

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Affected by 63I-2-253 on 7/1/2022

Effective 5/12/2020
53F-4-207. Student intervention early warning pilot program.
  • (1) As used in this section:
    • (a) "Digital program" means a program that provides information for student early intervention as described in this section.
    • (b) "Online data reporting tool" means a system described in Section 53E-4-311.
  • (2)
    • (a) The state board shall, subject to legislative appropriations:
      • (i) subject to Subsection (2)(c), enhance the online data reporting tool and provide additional formative actionable data on student outcomes; and
      • (ii) select through a competitive contract process a provider to provide to an LEA a digital program as described in this section.
    • (b) The contract described in Subsection (2)(a)(ii) shall be for a two-year pilot program.
    • (c) Information collected or used by the state board for purposes of enhancing the online data reporting tool in accordance with this section may not identify a student individually.
    • (d) The state board shall make rules in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, to define the primary exceptionalities described in Subsection (3)(e)(ii).
  • (3) The enhancement to the online data reporting tool and the digital program shall:
    • (a) be designed with a user-appropriate interface for use by teachers, school administrators, and parents;
    • (b) provide reports on a student's results at the student level on:
      • (i) a national assessment;
      • (ii) a local assessment; and
      • (iii) a standards assessment described in Section 53E-4-303;
    • (c) have the ability to provide data from aggregate student reports based on a student's:
      • (i) teacher;
      • (ii) school;
      • (iii) school district, if applicable; or
      • (iv) ethnicity;
    • (d) provide a viewer with the ability to view the data described in Subsection (2)(c) on a single computer screen;
    • (e) have the ability to compare the performance of students, for each teacher, based on a student's:
      • (i) gender;
      • (ii) special needs, including primary exceptionality as defined by state board rule;
      • (iii) English proficiency;
      • (iv) economic status;
      • (v) migrant status;
      • (vi) ethnicity;
      • (vii) response to tiered intervention;
      • (viii) response to tiered intervention enrollment date;
      • (ix) absence rate;
      • (x) feeder school;
      • (xi) type of school, including primary or secondary, public or private, Title I, or other general school-type category;
      • (xii) course failures; and
      • (xiii) other criteria, as determined by the state board; and
    • (f) have the ability to load data from a local, national, or other assessment in the data's original format within a reasonable time.
  • (4) Subject to legislative appropriations, the online data reporting tool and digital program shall:
    • (a) integrate criteria for early warning indicators, including the following criteria:
      • (i) discipline;
      • (ii) attendance;
      • (iii) behavior;
      • (iv) course failures; and
      • (v) other criteria as determined by a local school board or charter school governing board;
    • (b) provide a teacher or administrator the ability to view the early warning indicators described in Subsection (4)(a) with a student's assessment results described in Subsection (3)(b);
    • (c) provide data on response to intervention using existing assessments or measures that are manually added, including assessment and nonacademic measures;
    • (d) provide a user the ability to share interventions within a reporting environment and add comments to inform other teachers, administrators, and parents;
    • (e) save and share reports among different teachers and school administrators, subject to the student population information a teacher or administrator has the rights to access;
    • (f) automatically flag a student profile when early warning thresholds are met so that a teacher can easily identify a student who may be in need of intervention;
    • (g) incorporate a variety of algorithms to support student learning outcomes and provide student growth reporting by teacher;
    • (h) integrate response to intervention tiers and activities as filters for the reporting of individual student data and aggregated data, including by ethnicity, school, or teacher;
    • (i) have the ability to generate parent communication to alert the parent of academic plans or interventions; and
    • (j) configure alerts based upon student academic results, including a student's performance on the previous year's standards assessment described in Section 53E-4-303.
  • (5)
    • (a) The state board shall, subject to legislative appropriations, select an LEA to receive access to a digital program through a provider described in Subsection (2)(a)(ii).
    • (b) An LEA that receives access to a digital program shall:
      • (i) pay for 50% of the cost of providing access to the digital program to the LEA; and
      • (ii) no later than one school year after accessing a digital program, report to the state board in a format required by the state board on:
        • (A) the effectiveness of the digital program;
        • (B) positive and negative attributes of the digital program;
        • (C) recommendations for improving the online data reporting tool; and
        • (D) any other information regarding a digital program requested by the state board.
    • (c) The state board shall consider recommendations from an LEA for changes to the online data reporting tool.
  • (6) Information described in this section shall be used in accordance with and provided subject to:
    • (a)Title 53E, Chapter 9, Student Privacy and Data Protection; and
    • (b) Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g.




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