Details about academic interventions for individual students and groups can be added to the progress monitoring record (behavior interventions are set up differently). This can be done when the progress monitoring schedule is created and updated if an intervention is changed. Start by logging in to FastBridge as a teacher or specialist and selecting Progress Monitoring.
Create a New Intervention Schedule
To add interventions select New.
A menu opens to make student selections. The School year defaults to the current year.
- Users assigned to more than one school are able to access the School dropdown menu. If not, you won’t have to make a selection in this field.
- Type in student names into the search bar. As students are selected, they appear below the search menu with their name and grade level. The list is arranged alphabetically. Select the X next to a student's name to remove them from the list.
- Select Next to continue after all students have been chosen.
Add intervention details:
- Select an Interventionist from the menu of available users. If you don’t see the interventionist listed, that means that individual doesn’t have a FastBridge account
- Select a Subject Area. Reading and Math are available at this time.
- Choose a Strategy for the intervention. This list is populated based on the interventions the District Manager or School Manager has enabled for use in your setting.
- A name populates automatically based on the interventionist and strategy. Update as needed.
- Select Next to continue.
The Interventionist is the user that administers the intervention.
Add an intervention schedule:
- Select a Start Date and End Date for the intervention. Your Start Date will be when you started – or plan to start – implementing the intervention with the learner or learners. The End Date is when you anticipate that you’ll be able to end the intervention for the learner or learners. In many cases, educators will simply use the end of the school year as their End Date.
- Select a Start Time and End time for the intervention.
- Choose a Schedule Type, which can be Weekly, Block, or As Needed. Choose one or more a Day of the Week as it fits the schedule.
- Select Next to continue.
Set a monitoring schedule for the intervention:
- Select a Monitoring User from the available list. If you don’t see the Monitoring User listed, that means that individual doesn’t have a FastBridge account. In many cases, the Monitoring User will be the same as the Interventionist.
- Choose a Monitoring Assessment. If there is a FastBridge assessment you’d like to use for progress monitoring, but you don’t see it in the dropdown list, that’s because your School or District Manager hasn’t enabled that assessment for use in your setting.
- Select a Starting Form Number. The system will default to Progress Monitoring Form 1, but you may select a different form number if needed. You might select a different form number if you’re adding a new student to the group later in the year, and you want them to be on the same form number as the rest of the students in the group.
- Select a Start Date and End Date for the monitoring schedule. By default, the Start Date will appear as the Sunday prior to the current date. For scheduling purposes, you must select a Sunday on which to start progress monitoring. Your Start Date will be when you started – or plan to start – collecting progress monitoring data for the learner or learners. The End Date is when you anticipate that you’ll be able to stop collecting progress monitoring data for the learner or learners. In many cases, educators will simply use the end of the school year as their End Date.
- Select a Start Time and End Time for the monitoring schedule. The times are available in 15-minute increments.
- Select the Frequency at which students will be monitored, including Day(s) of the Week. While the default is 1 time per week, you may progress monitor as frequently as daily and as infrequently as once every 4 weeks.
- Select View Targets to access End of Year Benchmark and Percentile Targets.
- Select Next to continue.
The Monitoring User is the user that collection the Progress Monitoring data. This user is typically the same as the Interventionist, but may be a separate user.
Set a Review Schedule if needed. This step is optional. If a user wishes, they may select the gray Skip button. To set a schedule:
- Choose a Start and End Date as well as a Frequency.
- Select Next to continue.
A summary of selections appears and updates can be made as needed. Select Create to create the intervention schedule for the selected student(s)
Edit an Intervention Schedule
Use the checkbox to the left of a Student Name. Then select Edit Setup to edit the Intervention Plan.
Select Edit as it relates to the Intervention Details, Intervention Schedule, Monitoring Schedule, or Review Schedule to make any updates as needed. When done, select Save.