How Schools Use Early Warning Indicator Data and Technology to Implement Tiered Interventions

• In Event: Turnaround Efforts: Evaluations and Policy Implications

Abstract

Using early warning indicators (EWIs) to intervene with students who are falling off-track is such a new practice that there is a dearth of information about how educators use EWIs effectively to intervene with students. Our study examines the processes schools are putting in place to use indicator data and brings to light their successes and challenges. Early warning response systems alert teachers and administrators as soon as students begin to demonstrate behaviors that will push them off the path to graduation if left unattended, and trigger a tiered response system that combines both prevention and intervention strategies and steadily increases the intensity of supports until the student is back on the right path.

Authors

• Liza Herzog, Philadelphia Education Fund

• Marcia H. Davis, Johns Hopkins University

• Nettie E. Legters, Johns Hopkins University