Mar 27, 2018 | Read
Recently, I was having a conversation with a local school district representative about the SWIFT Education Center and the services we provide to support equity-based inclusive education. As usual, I got a little caught up in my impassioned plea about why all students...
Feb 22, 2018 | Read
Hi, I am Dan Pollitt and I work at SWIFT Education Center. I’d like to introduce you to a tool that can help your school and district leadership teams make well informed decisions about how they implement equity-based Multi-Tiered System of Support, or MTSS, for...
Dec 20, 2017 | Read
Recently we were asked some thought provoking questions about MTSS. We wanted to respond as well as invite you to join the conversation here on SWIFT Talk. Here are the questions and our responses. 1. Some schools claim to use MTSS for planning, but it doesn’t seem...
Oct 23, 2017 | Read
About the same time SWIFT began its partnership with the Pendleton School District in eastern Oregon, the district passed a large bond that allowed them to build two new elementary schools and an early learning center designed to welcome and support all students....
Oct 3, 2017 | Read
This self-proclaimed City Girl has always preferred to live and work in areas filled with people. My first teaching job was on a team in an elementary school that had eight sections of first grade, each with 26 or more students. Yes, we were big. And I liked it that...
