Table of Contents
- Setup New Intervention Cycle Overview
- Setup Subtab
- Finish Grouping Subtab
- Active Intervention Cycles
After completing digital assessments in the 95 Literacy Intervention System™ (LIS), data is compiled to group students with similar assessment results.
The Groups page’s Setup New Intervention Cycle tab features a power grid that serves as your school’s collaborative grouping space, streamlining intervention planning and the start of intervention cycles throughout the year.
This tab works alongside the Groups page’s Active Groups tab to facilitate grouping, group visibility, and Tier 2 services. To learn more about the Active Groups tab, reference our article on Active Groups.
95 Literacy Intervention System™
If your district has the 95 Literacy Intervention System™ (LIS) enabled in the One95™ platform, the Groups page will be available to users with this access permission.
The LIS is an assessment system in the One95 platform. This digital toolset empowers you to identify phonological awareness and phonics skill gaps, group students based on diagnostic assessment data, and deliver targeted instruction using recommended resources from the One95™ Literacy Ecosystem™. Student data is aggregated to provide 360-degree visibility at the school and district levels, automating time-consuming workflows. With the LIS, students receive the help they need to move out of intervention and become successful readers.
Contact your main district contact to learn more about the LIS.
Access the Setup New Intervention Cycle tab by selecting Groups from the navigation panel and clicking Setup New Intervention Cycle in the menu at the top of the page.
Contact your main district contact if you need to work on grouping and cannot access the Groups page.
Setup New Intervention Cycle Overview
The Setup New Intervention Cycle tab streamlines the planning and execution of new intervention cycles in your school. It is equivalent to the work completed within classroom grouping worksheets as part of the paper assessments widely used by 95 Percent Group customers for many years.
In addition to the value of automating assessment delivery and scoring processes, the LIS eliminates the need to manage student assessment data in spreadsheets and sticky notes, or physically transfer information between systems. Data collection comes in automatically after administration to support
It is beneficial to understand the Student Details page’s Assessment History table as the latest data from each student’s Phonological Awareness Screener for Intervention™ (PASI) or Phonics Screener for Intervention™ (PSI) assessments gets rolled up into the power grid for grouping consideration.
The Setup New Intervention Cycle tab provides a planning sandbox where students can be assigned to new groups in preparation for a new intervention cycle. Several automated grouping options are presented in a setup step. Then, new groups can be adjusted on a finish page by sorting, filtering, and moving students from a power grid of students that displays their most recent PASI or PSI skill scores into best-fit intervention groups.
This dynamic sandbox and planning area aggregates all students who have been administered at least one saved PASI or PSI assessment in the school into a flexible, sortable power grid. It provides a safe space to create and manage groups, easily moving students in and out of them as changes are automatically saved, without affecting current active groupings.
The power grid facilitates the ability to see skill-gap patterns and is designed to be used collaboratively. Colleagues within your school with access to this feature can view and make changes to groups in this collaborative shared workspace. As such, it is advisable to complete grouping activities together during a professional learning community or protocol-type meeting.
There are two steps to activating a new intervention cycle: setup and grouping. Each function is completed within the Setup and Finish Grouping subtabs, respectively.
Users with access to the Setup New Intervention Cycle tab can access both subtabs.
Setup Subtab
The Setup subtab is where your school selects each cycle's automated grouping method. Selecting an automated grouping method determines how the initial intervention groups and group participation are surfaced by the system.
The LIS offers three methods of automated grouping to accommodate different approaches for different schools, depending on which best fits your intervention process. Two Teacher-Start methods consider your school’s existing Tier 2 groups and a third Tech-Start method offers an automated algorithm to take a first pass at group creation.
Finish Grouping Subtab
Depending on your automated grouping selection, the Finish Grouping subtab takes forward the information entered in the Setup subtab and displays a carousel of Tier 2 groups that either carried over from the Active Groups tab or were created via the automated algorithm.
The Finish Grouping subtab also contains the power grid of all students assessed, pre-grouped, and sorted according to their most recent PASI or PSI assessment data. Within the power grid, you can filter students by grade, filter out students that have already been grouped, sort students by skills data, expand each skill to analyze their subskills, and move students into groups by dragging and dropping them.
Each automated grouping method is intended to be a starting place for grouping workflows. The LIS was designed to help educators leverage automation, while also recognizing that educators ultimately know their students best. For example, the system may not recognize that two students do not work well together, even though they both indicate they need help in the same phonics subskill area. The power grid makes it easy to apply educator insights on top of efficient automation.
Grouping Settings
One95 Administrators have exclusive access to the Settings page where platform settings are configured.
- The Environment tab controls platform-wide defaults for the LIS.
- The Roles tab provides user role permissions visibility and management.
These settings drive the behavior of the Groups page.
Environment Tab
The Environment tab determines your district’s grouping settings. From here, One95 Administrators set the recommended maximum number of concurrent groups and the maximum number of students per group in each school.
These settings default into group creation workflows within the LIS and help maintain best practices for intervention support.
The system notifies users mid-grouping if the maximum number of concurrent groups and the maximum number of students per group is reached. Users can choose to override these notational messages on a case-by-case basis.
To learn more about the Environment tab, reference our article on Settings | Environment Page.
Roles Tab
The Roles tab determines whether each user role can access the functions within the Groups page.
There are two tabs within the Groups page: Active Groups and Setup New Intervention Cycle.
Permissions to each function are separate, meaning that users may have access to one, both, or neither based on the configurations outlined in the Roles tab.
One95 Administrators should ensure that for any user roles they would like to manage groups, the appropriate checkboxes within the Groups checkbox are marked.
To learn more about roles, reference our article on One95™ Roles.
Data Visibility
Group and student data visibility within the Setup New Intervention Cycle tab is driven by the scope of student data permitted to be displayed and accessed by each role.
Groups
All Tier 2 groups for the school are available for updating. Classroom (i.e., Tier 1) groups and intensive instruction (i.e., Tier 3) groups are not included in automated grouping, since these types of groups typically have different lifecycles.
Note: This is applicable for the Teacher-Start automated grouping methods. The Tech-Start method creates Tier 2 groups from scratch.
Students
Each user can view all students with at least one saved PASI or PSI assessment in the school within the scope of student data scoped within their role.
Setup Subtab
Determine the intervention cycle name and automated grouping method for each cycle in the Setup subtab.
Start by entering the cycle name in the Name your plan field. Cycle names are visible to all users with access to the function.
This is a required field.
Note that one named plan can be in the planning step and sandbox at a time. If a plan has already been started but not yet activated, user focus will start on the Finish Grouping subtab versus the Setup subtab.
Next, select from one of the automated grouping methods by clicking the button next to an option within the Automated Grouping Method section.
This selection allows educators to choose the approach that best fits their school’s multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) or literacy intervention process approach.
The Start with current Tier 2 groups & Students button is selected by default.
Teacher-Start
The Teacher-Start options give educators more control over how to start building new groups for the next planning cycle.
Schools can start a new intervention cycle and choose to either carry over existing Tier 2 groups and students or to carry over existing Tier 2 groups while clearing group assignments.
- Selecting Start with current Tier 2 Groups & Students carries over Tier 2 groups and students from the Active Groups tab across the school.
- Selecting Keep Tier 2 Groups and Clear Students carries over Tier 2 groups while clearing group assignments from the Active Groups tab across the school.
It is advisable to begin with one of the Teacher-Start automated grouping methods as you and your colleagues are getting used to the system or if your intervention cycles do not change frequently.
Click Next once complete to reach the power grid.
Tech-Start
The Tech-Start option adds an additional layer of grouping automation by letting the system take a first pass at creating new intervention groups.
Selecting Clear Tier 2 Groups & Students allows your school to start from a clean slate and automate initial intervention grouping. The automated algorithm considers each student’s most recent PASI or PSI scores at the skill and subskill level and your school-defined parameters.
This option may be appropriate if your school’s intervention cycles change every three weeks according to your district's preferred MTSS standard intervention period.
Because the Tech-Start option involves selecting a subset of skills for the automated grouping algorithm, Tier 2 groups in your school not brought over from the Active Groups tab as part of the intervention cycle are closed upon cycle activation. If your school is running multiple intervention cycles simultaneously, it is advisable to continue leveraging the Teacher-Start options to carry over Tier 2 groups in the school.
After clicking the Tech-Start button, a set of grouping parameters will populate. These parameters tell the system how it should consider existing groups and student data.
To help understand the extent of students that may need extra help, the system retrieves students in the school with a proficiency lower than 90% in the pseudowords section on their last saved PSI assessment and a proficiency lower than 80% on their last saved PASI assessment.
Complete the fields as follows.
1. Maximum Number of Groups
Confirm the maximum number of intervention groups in the Maximum number of groups field.
This number defaults to the number configured by your district’s One95 Administrators for grouping best practices.
Override this setting by inputting a new number. For example, the number could fluctuate based on the time of year and the number of group leaders available.
This is a required field.
Note: There is a maximum of 200 concurrent groups per school.
2. Maximum Students per Group
Confirm the maximum number of students per group in the Maximum students per group field.
This number defaults to the number configured by your district’s One95 Administrators for grouping best practices.
Override this setting by inputting a new number.
This is a required field.
Note: There is a maximum of 12 students for Tier 2 groups. You will be able to manually over-fill groups in the grouping sandbox if you choose to do so.
3. Filling Groups
Determine whether groups should be filled from the lowest skill with no proficiency or the highest skill with no proficiency first by clicking the Fill Groups Lowest Skill First or Fill Groups Highest Skill First buttons, respectively.
This parameter helps the automated distribution algorithm prioritize filling groups and is useful in situations where you have more students who need assistance than group leader resources to lead intervention activities.
The Fill Groups Lowest Skill First button is selected by default.
This is a required field.
The Fill Groups Lowest Skill First option fills in groups based on students’ latest PASI or PSI assessment results from the lowest skill with no proficiency (e.g., Skill PA1) selected by the user to the highest skill with no proficiency (e.g., Skill P15).
This means that students will first be grouped by Skills PA1 through PA11, then Skill P1, Skill P2, and then subskills 2.1, 2.2, and so on until Skill P15. For example, if you mark the P3, P6, and P11 checkboxes in the following step, then students will be distributed into groups in that order.
The Fill Groups Highest Skill First option fills in groups based on students’ latest PASI or PSI assessment results from the highest skill with no proficiency (e.g., Skill P15) selected by the user to the lowest skill with no proficiency (e.g., Skill PA1).
This means that students will first be grouped by Skill P15, then Skill P14, and so on until Skill PA1. For example, if you mark the P3, P6, and P11 checkboxes in the following step, then students will be distributed into groups first by P11, then P6, and finally P3.
Within the automated algorithm, each option starts by creating a group for the lowest or highest skill selected. The group is filled with students that have the lowest scores (if Skills PA1 through PA11 and P1 or Skill P10 through P15) or the highest number of errors (if Skill P2 through Skill P9) until the maximum number of students per group is reached.
Once there are no remaining students in a skill that are below proficiency, the algorithm moves on to consider students in the next highest skill.
- If the maximum number of students per group is reached and there are remaining students below proficiency, another skill group will be created. Additional skill groups cannot be created if the maximum number of concurrent groups is reached.
- If the maximum number of concurrent groups is reached and there are remaining students below proficiency for one or many selected skills, waitlist groups are created for each skill from lowest to highest to include all the remaining students below benchmark.
Waitlist groups serve as a holding place for ungrouped students. After the cycle has been activated, students from the waitlist can immediately be moved into active groups from the Active Groups tab as seats become available.
Note:
- Students cannot be waitlisted while actively participating in Tier 2 groups.
- Waitlist groups are the only Tier 2 group that may contain more than 12 students.
4. Student Skill Inclusion
Determine which skill groups should be considered in the automated algorithm by marking one or more checkboxes.
Gray skill checkboxes are displayed for each PASI and PSI skill where at least one student is not proficient. The checkboxes summarize how many students are in each skill group based on their latest saved PASI or PSI assessment.
The checkboxes selected here tell the system which skills groups actively contain students below proficiency for consideration. Note that all eligible students will be brought over to the power grid, but the distribution algorithm for grouping students will only consider these skill groups.
Skills PA1-PA11
Each checkbox summarizes how many students are not proficient at the skill and receive an assessment score of less than 80%.
Skill P1 and Skills P10-P15
Each checkbox summarizes how many students are not proficient at the skill and receive an assessment score of less than 90%.
Skills P2-P9
Each checkbox summarizes how many students are not proficient at the skill (i.e., receive an assessment score of less than 90%) and receive at least one subskill error in the pseudoword section of the assessments.
Note:
- If a student is not proficient at more than one skill, the same student will be counted within each skill. This means the total number of non-proficient students in the marked checkboxes will not equal the total number of students displayed in the power grid.
- Checkbox selection does not limit or affect the skills data displayed in the power grid.
This is a required field.
Click Next once complete to reach the power grid.
Finish Grouping Subtab
The Finish Grouping subtab displays the power grid and shared grouping space for your school’s next intervention cycle.
If you arrive at the Finish Grouping subtab after selecting the Setup New Intervention Cycle tab, the power grid may display ongoing work-in-process in the planning sandbox from you and your colleagues before activation of the next new cycle
This indicates the intervention cycle setup has already been completed within the Setup subtab and your school is in the middle of planning.
Groups Carousel
The groups carousel at the top of the page displays intervention groups in the planning sandbox for setup in the next intervention cycle for your school.
The groups carousel is displayed from left to right, starting from the lowest skill group (i.e., PA1) to the highest skill group (i.e., P15.3). If multiple skill groups exist in the school, they are sorted alphabetically by group name.
Click on the right and left arrow icons to advance the carousel forward or backward through Tier 2 groups.
Teacher-Start
If either of the Teacher-Start automated grouping methods were selected, the groups displayed in the carousel were carried over from your school’s current set of active groups on the Active Groups tab.
- If the first Teacher-Start option was selected, students associated with these groups were also carried over from the Active Groups tab.
- If the second Teacher-Start option was selected, students associated with each group cleared when groups carried over from the Active Groups tab. Note that these group associations were cleared only in the sandbox – currently active groups did not change.
Group details and student associations in the sandbox can be modified at any time and do not impact currently active groupings. Group details and student associations made in the Active Groups tab after setting up the new cycle will not be reflected in the sandbox unless you choose to update the sandbox.
Note:
- It is a best practice to work through planning sessions and not let the planning sandbox sit without update or activation for too long. If you are returning to the planning sandbox after an extended period, the likelihood that manual adjustments have been made to groups or students increases.
- The carousel may reflect additional Tier 2 groups created within the planning sandbox. Groups carried over from the Active Groups tab may include group details and student participation modifications or be removed entirely.
Tech-Start
If the Tech-Start automated grouping method was selected, the groups displayed in the carousel were created by the automated algorithm based on your school’s Setup subtab parameters.
- The number of groups reflects the Maximum number of groups field value.
- The starting skill for each group reflects the skills selected via the gray checkboxes.
- The number of students in each group reflects the Maximum students per group field value.
By default, system-suggested groups in the carousel are:
- Named by the starting skill
- Led by the user who set up the cycle plan
- Tier 2
- Walk-to-Intervention
- Not assigned group symbols
- Assigned blue group colors
- Not assigned resources
Group name formatting is as follows: Skill_Group Number (e.g., P14_1). If multiple groups are created for the same skill, skill groups are numbered in ascending order.
Depending on whether ungrouped students with skills failed in the PASI or the PSI diagnostic assessments remained after your school hit the maximum number of groups limit, waitlist groups may have been created. Waitlist group name formatting is as follows: Skill_Waitlist (e.g., P14_Waitlist).
System-suggested groups are intended to facilitate grouping by providing a starting point. As part of the grouping process, refine group names and attributes according to new instructional focus areas and adjust students in groups as appropriate.
Group details and student participation can be modified at any time.
Group Tiles
Each group tile in the carousel displays the group’s targeted skill or subskill at the top of the tile, followed by the group symbol (if any), and the group name.
View group details by clicking the group tile. After selection, a group banner will populate below the carousel. The banner color is determined by the group color.
Group banners display the group symbol (if any), name, starting skill or subskill, type (i.e., Tier 2), location or grade, leader, and student participants.
Circle icons represent the total number of seats available in each group.
- Filled seats are indicated by student names alongside circle icons.
- Available seats are indicated by Available circle icons.
The total number of seats available per group differs based on the automated grouping method selected.
- If the Teacher-Start grouping methods were selected, the total number of seats available per group is determined by your district’s One95 Administrators for grouping best practices. Note this number may have been overridden.
- If the Tech-Start grouping method was selected, the total number of seats available per group is determined by the Maximum students per group field in the Setup subtab. Note this number may have been overridden.
Note: There is a maximum of 12 students for Tier 2 groups.
Creating Groups
Click + ADD A GROUP in the group carousel to create a new Tier 2 group.
Schools that selected the Tech-Start option should ensure they account for any Tier 2 groups not carried over from the Active Groups tab as they will be closed upon cycle activation.
Complete the Create New Group modal as follows.
Group Name
Group names are how the group will be identified within the LIS. They are typically based on the targeted skill deficit (e.g., Skill P1) or capture persistent names that represent different intervention leaders or areas within the school.
As an example, the group name can capture a persistent group that may cover different skills over time, such as Blue Crew. It can also be based on the educator who is leading the group.
It is advisable to include the grade level and educator name when naming groups (e.g., 2nd Grade Smith Intervention Group) to facilitate group identification.
Enter the group name in the Group Name field.
This is a required field.
Group Leader
Group leaders oversee the group and provide intervention.
To assign yourself as the group leader, leave the default group leader as your username within the Group Leader drop-down.
To assign the group leader to another educator, select their name from the drop-down. Group leaders must be One95 platform users to be eligible.
This is a required field.
Type of Group
The group type is how the group is categorized: Classroom, Tier 2, or Tier 3.
The Type of Group drop-down will be grayed out as groups created within the Setup New Intervention tab can only be Tier 2 groups.
Note: Create Classroom and Tier 3 groups within the Active Groups tab.
Location
Locations are the locations or grades in which the group is based.
Select the group’s location or grade from the Location drop-down.
This is a required field.
Note: The available grades are synchronized from your district’s rostering platform.
Group Shape
Determine how the group should be represented within the LIS by assigning a group symbol.
This allows you to visually identify the group as you navigate the platform and quickly distinguish which students are receiving what type of additional help.
Select an animal or shape from the Group Shape drop-down.
Group Color
Determine how the group should be represented within the LIS by assigning a group color.
This allows you to visually identify the group as you navigate the platform and quickly distinguish which students are receiving what type of additional help.
Select a color from the Group Color drop-down.
This is a required field.
Starting Skill
Select the group’s targeted skill or subskill from the Starting Skill drop-down.
Choose from PASI skills, PSI skills, and Phonics Lesson Library™ (PLL) subskills.
If there is more than one targeted skill, select Multiple. If the group’s targeted skill is to be determined or involves resources outside the One95 Literacy Platform™, select Custom.
This is a required field.
Resources
Enter the resources the group will be leveraging within the Resources field.
For example, the group may be using the PLL to target skill deficits.
Max Students
The number in the Max Students field defaults to the number configured by your district’s One95 Administrators for grouping best practices.
Override this setting by inputting a new number.
This is a required field.
Note: There is a maximum of 12 students for Tier 2 groups.
Click Create once complete.
The new group will be available in the carousel to begin adding students. If multiple groups already exist, the new group can be found at the end of the carousel.
Maximum Number of Groups Alert
After clicking Create, you may receive an alert that creating another group will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent groups.
This informational message is based on your district’s One95 Administrator settings for grouping best practices.
Override this setting by clicking Confirm Group Creation.
Note: There is a maximum of 200 concurrent groups per school.
Modifying Groups
Groups can be modified or deleted at any time.
To modify group details or delete a group entirely, click the group tile within the carousel.
Next, click the ellipsis menu in the upper right-hand corner of the group banner.
Editing Groups
Click the pencil icon to edit the group.
The Type of Group drop-down will be grayed out as groups created within the Setup New Intervention tab can only be Tier 2 groups.
Note: There is a maximum of 12 students for Tier 2 groups.
After editing the group details, click Save once complete.
Deleting Groups
Click the trash icon to delete the group.
By deleting a group, all students involved in the group will be removed. This action cannot be undone.
Click Delete This Group to confirm the group’s deletion.
Renaming Cycle
To rename the intervention cycle without starting your planning over, click the pencil icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Finish Grouping subtab.
Enter the new cycle name in the field.
Click the green checkmark icon once complete. Name changes are visible to all users with access to the function.
Power Grid
The power grid lists every student that has been administered at least one saved PASI or PSI assessment in your school, regardless of the automated grouping method selected, displaying an assessment continuum with evaluated skills as columns.
Scroll up and down using your mouse and sideways using the table’s arrow icons to view all assessments and results.
The table's columns are labeled PA1 through PA11 and P1 through P15. These columns represent the 11 PASI skills and 15 PSI skills, respectively. Note that PLL subskills are aligned to each PSI skill.
Drill down and expand subskill results by clicking the triangle icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the skill columns. This shows the error count obtained by each subskill associated with the PSI skill’s pseudowords.
Click the triangle icon again to hide the subskill errors.
Hover over the columns to view the skill and subskill names. Look down on each column to view the student’s scores.
Read the assessment results horizontally to view the skills completed in each student’s latest PASI or PSI assessment administration.
Reference the assessment scores within the score cells. These scores indicate the number of prompt words the student scored correctly.
Score colors are an indicator of the student’s mastery.
PASI Assessments
- Green scores represent a mastery of 80% or better (i.e., a score of 4 or above).
- Orange scores represent a mastery of 60% (i.e., a score of 3).
- Red scores represent a mastery of below 60% (i.e., a score of 2 or below).
PSI Assessments
- Green score cells indicate a mastery of 90% or better.
- Yellow score cells indicate a mastery of approximately 78%.
- Red score cells indicate a mastery of approximately 65%.
Students
Reference student details in the left-hand columns of the power grid.
- View each student’s group participation in the GROUP column. This column appears empty if the student is ungrouped.
- View each student’s grade in the GRADE column.
- View each student’s name in the STUDENT column. The date on which the student’s last saved PASI or PSI assessment was administered is displayed below their name.
Sorting
By default, grouped students are displayed at the top of the table. Grouped students are sorted alphabetically by group name, alphabetically by last name, and then alphabetically by first name.
Ungrouped students are displayed at the bottom of the table. Ungrouped students are sorted alphabetically by last name and then alphabetically by first name.
Sort students by clicking the columns in the power grid.
- Clicking the GROUP column sorts students by group name in ascending or descending alphabetical order.
- Clicking the GRADE column sorts students by grade in ascending or descending numerical order.
- Clicking the STUDENT column sorts students by name in ascending or descending alphabetical order.
- Clicking the skill and subskill columns sorts students by proficiency in ascending or descending order.
Skill Column Sorting
When skill columns are sorted in ascending order:
- The students with the lowest scores are displayed at the top of the table
- The students with the highest scores are displayed at the bottom of the table
When skill columns are sorted in descending order:
- The students with the highest scores are displayed at the top of the table
- The students with the lowest scores are displayed at the bottom of the table
Subskill Column Sorting
When subskill columns are sorted in ascending order:
- The students with the lowest number of errors are displayed at the top of the table
- The students with the highest number of errors are displayed at the bottom of the table
When subskill columns are sorted in descending order:
- The students with the highest number of errors are displayed at the top of the table
- The students with the lowest number of errors are displayed at the bottom of the table
Grade Filtering
By default, the power grid displays eligible students of all grades in your school.
Filter the power grid by grade by clicking + Add More Filters above the power grid. This facilitates identifying which students to select when planning new intervention cycles by grade.
From there, mark one or many checkboxes next to the grades you would like to filter students.
Click FILTER once complete. The power grid will be filtered according to your preferences.
Filters remain within the page until they are removed or after logging out.
- Remove individual filters by clicking the X icons within the grade filters.
- Remove all filters by clicking X Clear All Grades.
- Add additional filters by clicking + Add More Filters and repeating the process above.
Note: The available grades are synchronized from your district’s rostering platform.
Hiding Grouped Students
By default, the power grid displays both grouped and ungrouped students.
To hide grouped students, enable the Hide students already grouped toggle above the power grid.
The toggle will remain enabled until it is disabled or after logging out.
Grouping Students
The roll-up proficiency data displayed in the power grid is used to help educators understand what intervention services are appropriate for each student. To begin grouping students, look at student data in the LIS the same way that you would look at classroom grouping worksheets.
Intervention groups are typically based on a skill deficit. If you see various students struggling with a skill indicated by red, yellow, and orange score cells, create a group and group those students together. For example, if many students are struggling with Skill P3, it may make sense to capture a P3-focused intervention group if one does not already exist.
Sort the skill columns to assist in grouping decisions and expand columns to drill down into the student’s subskill errors.
Continue adding students to groups until everyone has been grouped appropriately.
Adding Students
To add a student to a group, click and drag the student’s row below the STUDENT column and place it on top of an available seat within the group banner.
The group banner and the GROUP column will update with the student’s participation.
To add a grouped student into a different group, click and drag their student row into an available seat within the new group’s banner. They do not need to be removed from the old group before being added to a new group.
The group banner and the GROUP column will update with the student’s latest group participation.
Maximum Number of Students Alert
If multiple students have already been added to a group, you may receive an alert that adding another student will exceed the recommended maximum number of students.
This informational message is based on your district’s One95 Administrator settings for grouping best practices. This setting may have been overridden with a new maximum during group creation.
Override the setting by clicking Confirm Student Add.
Note:
- There are best practice and system maximums for student group involvement. You may receive an alert that you are unable to add another student entirely. To proceed with grouping the student, open a seat in the group.
- There is a maximum of 12 students for Tier 2 groups.
Removing Students
To remove a student from a group, click the student’s group participation within the GROUP column.
Alternatively, click the circle icon next to the student’s name within the group banner.
After confirmation, the group banner and the GROUP column will update with the student’s group removal.
Ungrouped students can be found at the bottom of the table.
Updating Cycle Plans
Click Back To Setup at the bottom of the power grid to clear all changes and start your work from scratch.
This may be helpful if your school has made too many changes to the groups and student distribution within the power grid.
- To reset the power grid using the same automated grouping method, click Restart within the Setup subtab without modifying any fields.
- To reset the power grid using a different automated grouping method, modify the fields within the Setup subtab and click Restart once complete.
Click Continue with this update to reset the power grid and groups. This action cannot be undone.
After confirmation, you will return to the Finish Grouping subtab. The groups carousel will reflect Tier 2 groups created by the automated grouping method selected. No manual changes from your school’s previous cycle planning will be visible.
Alternatively, click the Cancel and Take Me Back button to resume your school’s planning. Click the Finish Grouping subtab to return to the in-flight cycle within the power grid.
Resuming Later
If you are in the middle of grouping and need to resume later, note that any work completed within the power grid is automatically saved.
Colleagues with access to this page can view all the work that has been done and make group changes as desired. As such, it is advisable to complete grouping exercises as a school so that necessary stakeholders have the visibility they need.
Activating Cycles
Once your school has finished grouping students together, you can get ready to activate the Tier 2 groups for the upcoming intervention cycle.
Note: If you selected the Tech-Start option, do not activate the cycle unless your school wants to clear all Tier 2 groups in your school that are not brought over from the Active Groups tab. It is advisable to continue to use the Teacher-Start options to carry over all Tier 2 groups if your school is running multiple intervention cycles. Click Back To Setup to return to the Setup subtab and revise the automated grouping method if needed.
New intervention cycles are activated by clicking Activate at the bottom of the planning sandbox.
Confirm the Tier 2 group updates according to the distribution of students outlined in the planning sandbox including any manual changes you may have made. This activates the cycle for your entire school and permanently saves the grouping changes.
Activating a cycle replaces the old Tier 2 groups within the Active Groups tab with the new groups configured within the planning sandbox and launches the cycle immediately.
After confirmation, you will return to the Active Groups tab. Previously active groups will be replaced with the new groups you have created in your planning sandbox for the next cycle.
Changes in the Active Groups tab can include new Tier 2 groups, updated groups (e.g., name, students involved), or closed groups entirely. Classroom and Tier 3 groups in your school will remain unchanged.
The planning sandbox within the Setup New Intervention Cycle tab will be cleared, and ready for the next intervention cycle.
Note: If someone in your school made a mistake or wants to start over after cycle activation, set up a new intervention cycle in the Setup subtab.
Active Intervention Cycles
Once the intervention cycle is activated, student group participation is reflected throughout the LIS for visibility to all stakeholders.
- Student info cards will reflect group participation within the Active Groups tab and the Today page’s My Students tab.
- Listings will reflect group participation within the Today page’s My Activities tab.
- The Student Details page will reflect group participation at the top of the page.
Additionally, previous group participation for students will be closed when students exit an intervention group and a new group participation entry will be added to the Intervention Group Participation table in each Student Details page.
The Intervention Group Participation table tracks when students are manually and automatically cycled into groups within the Active Groups and Setup New Intervention Cycle tabs, respectively. It provides users with a historical record of the student’s intervention participation.
The date on which the cycle was activated will be outlined as the start date. The end date will be added once students are removed from the group, or the group is deleted.
Students involved in Tier 2 groups that were closed after activating the cycle will reflect this participation within the Intervention Group Participation table. The date on which the new intervention cycle was activated will be outlined as the end date.
Note: If the student was assigned and removed from an active group in less than 24 hours, no row is displayed in the table to minimize table entries created by mistaken group assignments.
To learn more about the Student Details page, reference our article on Student Details Page.
Best Practices
It is advisable to follow a three-week (i.e., 14-17 days) intervention cycle.
During week three of the cycle, PLL progress monitoring assessments are typically administered to the students in each intervention group. Note that PLL assessments are tracked in the Student Details assessment history table, but do not factor into automated grouping. A PASI or PSI should be given before the end of the cycle to re-measure skills addressed during intervention instruction.
Regrouping for the next intervention cycle should be done during week three of the intervention cycle and completed by the last day of the cycle. This means, meaning that educators within your school will come together to begin creating new groups before the end of the current cycle. The goal is for the next intervention cycle to begin the following day upon activation.
There are several ways to manage grouping once the cycle has been activated. You do not need to wait until the next intervention cycle to add a student who may need to join.
Educators with access can reference the Active Groups tab and, if a group already exists with open seats, they can choose to add students to the group right away by dragging and dropping them onto the group tile.
Educators with access to the Setup New Intervention Cycle process can observe progress across all students in intervention by starting a new cycle and watching the dates of the last PASI or PSI scores along with scores for grouped students, without activating a new cycle.
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