Name: Beyond the Benchmark: Designing Instruction that Works for Every Student
Start: 2026-11-19T14:30:00-0500
End: 2026-11-19T15:45:00-0500

Beyond the Benchmark: Designing Instruction that Works for Every Student

Thursday November 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

Using the MDE MTSS Practice Profile as our guide, we leverage a robust Tier 1 foundation to differentiate support across all tiers. We ensure that data-based decision-making is the driver of instructional change at every level. Our tiered system uses the evidence-based practices from UFLI Foundations, Collaborative Literacy, and The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book by Nancy Hennessey and Julia Salamone. By focusing on the Learning Hierarchy, we match instructional routines to a student's specific stage of learning (Acquisition, Fluency, Generalization, or Adaptation), ensuring interventions are precise and effective.

Participants will receive sample data sets, data analysis guidelines, progress-monitoring and intervention templates, and guidelines for drafting student success plans.Basis for Data-Based Decision Making and Evidence-Based Curricular Resources.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will analyze data to identify areas of student need.
Participants will use the Learning Hierarchy to identify a student's current stage and determine the next instructional steps needed to build skill fluency.
Participants will work in small groups to develop targeted Student Success Plans using data samples.

Speakers

Dr. Denise Lilly

Executive Director of Elementary Education, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools

Dr. Denise Lilly serves as Executive Director of Elementary Education for Plymouth-Canton Schools. With experience as an elementary principal, middle and high school teacher and administrator, and Director of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department, she champions inclusive... Read More →

Jan Douglas, Lori Monteith, & Dr. Denise Lilly

K-5 Curriculum Coordinator /Literacy COSA/Executive Director of Elementary Education, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools

Lori Monteith

District Literacy Coach, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools

Lori Monteith is the Literacy COSA for Plymouth-Canton Schools. With experience as an elementary teacher, literacy interventionist, and instructional coach, she partners with educators to shift mindsets and implement research-based strategies aligned with the science of reading, driving... Read More →

Thursday November 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

Breakout Session

2026 MiMTSS Conference

Dr. Denise Lilly

Jan Douglas, Lori Monteith, & Dr. Denise Lilly

Lori Monteith

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2026 MiMTSS Conference

Dr. Denise Lilly

Jan Douglas, Lori Monteith, & Dr. Denise Lilly

Lori Monteith

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