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Dr. Denise P. Gibbs, Director Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation Learning Centers

STUDENT SUCCESS. SPED. RtI. Dr. Denise P. Gibbs, Director Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation Learning Centers Gibbsdenise@aol.com.

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Dr. Denise P. Gibbs, Director Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation Learning Centers

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  1. STUDENT SUCCESS SPED RtI Dr. Denise P. Gibbs, Director Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation Learning Centers Gibbsdenise@aol.com

  2. This presentation is being provided today at no cost by the Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation. The philanthropy of the Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation began in the 1950’s in Alabama and continues today. The mission of the Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation is to provide help to Alabama Schools as they work with students who struggle in reading -particularly those students with dyslexia.

  3. Alabama’ RTI Framework • Two documents for download at alsde.edu (special links) • Response to Instruction: Alabama Core Support For All Students • A Problem Solving Team Process

  4. Questions from SPED Coordinators • Screening questions • What are some examples of universal screeners? • What areas must be screened? • When do you screen?

  5. Screening: What and When • Screen basic math and reading skills • For K-3 students, ALL students should be screened 3 times per year. • For grade 4-12 students, schools could: • Screen all students (as in K-3) • screen all entering students • complete a records review and then “screen” students below a designated level

  6. Screening Tools • A few of the peer-reviewed screening tools • AIMSWEB (reading, math, spelling, written expression pre K-12) Aggregate Growth Scores • DIBELS (reading K-6) • STEEP (reading and math K-12) • Independent, peer-review of screening and progress monitoring tools • www.rti4success.org

  7. A look at some reading and math screening probes • R-CBM • Mazes • Math Computation • Math Concepts and Applications

  8. System-wide intervention criteria • School systems will need to determine the screening outcomes which will result in intervention consideration and referral to one of the problem solving teams. • If score is below ___ then student will be reviewed by the appropriate problem solving team • Could choose “arbitrary percentile score” • Could choose score which predicts success on high stakes test like ARMT or ASGHE

  9. Screening and Progress Monitoring • Need to select a screening tool which also has some useful progress monitoring tools “built into their package” • Progress should be monitored weekly • Incorrect progress monitoring tool use is a “deal breaker”

  10. Questions from SPED Coordinators • Tier questions • Define Tier II and Tier III. • Who would be in Tier II? • Examples of class set-up for Tier II • Amount of intervention times for Tier II • Intervention strategies for Tier II • How long in Tier II before you move to Tier III? • What does Tier II look like? • How is Tier III different from activities in Tier II?

  11. Elementary Tier Model (K-3) PlusSpecial Education ? % 5% Tier 3 Intensive Intervention 60 minutes Intervention 30 minutes per dayin the classroom Tier 2 15% Comprehensive Core 90 minutes per day reading60 minutes per day math Tier 1 80%

  12. Academically, what should Tier 1 include for elementary students? • MINIMUM of 90 minutes in reading and 60 minutes in math of uninterrupted core instruction • NRP and NMAP suggest a combination of whole and small group differentiated instruction • The five big ideas from the NRP and critical benchmarks from NMAP!

  13. Tier 2 for elementary students…. • Additional small group instruction • Best when provided by classroom teacher • At least 10-12 weeks in duration** • Frequent progress monitoring • May need additional rounds of Tier 2 if “adequate progress” is being made • May need to move to Tier 3 if “inadequate progress” is being made

  14. Tier 3 for K-3 students • Intensive intervention • Does not replace or supplant (Tier 1) but may replace Tier 2 • Designed to meet identified student needs in math, reading, and behavior • Student will miss something • Decide what will be missed • Schedule for success! • Who might provide this intervention? • Title I; reading, math, or behavior interventionists; SPED; Para; Classroom teacher, etc

  15. Grade 4-12 Tier Model PlusSpecial Education ? % Tier 3 5% Intensive Intervention classes Differentiated strategy instruction in content classes small group-intentional groupings 15% Tier 2 Tier 1 80% Core instruction=Strategy instruction in content classes whole and small group

  16. About Grades 4-12 Tier 1 • Students learn how to learn • Strategic teaching in ALL classes • Some time for students to work with peers daily in ALL classes • Encourages student engagement • Students become active participants in the learning process • Students “make their own meaning”

  17. About Grades 4-12 Tier 2 • Differentiated strategic teaching • Teacher explicitly models strategies with students and scaffolds as needed • Opportunities for peer-tutors and heterogeneous grouping (weaker with stronger and teacher rotates among groups) • Opportunities for homogeneous grouping (weak come together and teacher works with that group)

  18. About Grades 4-12 Tier 3 • Intensive intervention classes for students who need them (math, reading, and behavior) • Reading – Word-level interventions and comprehension interventions • Math – Computation and problem solving interventions • Behavior- small group sessions/classes • Scheduling options • Grade specific intervention times • Acceleration block

  19. Questions from SPED Coordinators • Intervention questions • Intervention strategies for Tier II • Examples of Tier III interventions

  20. Some ideas from K-3 Intervention Research Scammacca, N., Vaughn, S., Roberts, G., Wanzek, J., & Torgesen, J. K. (2007). • All of the effective Tier 2 interventions included training in: • phonological awareness • decoding, and word study • guided and independent reading of progressively more difficult texts • writing exercises • engaging students in practicing comprehension strategies while reading text.

  21. An intervention study illustrating effective Tier 2 options….

  22. Early Interventions in Reading(Torgesen and Mathes, 2005) • 120 lessons, 40 minutes, 3-5 students • Mathes, et al 2005 study …. • Excellent gains after 91 hours of instruction • Only 1% of the students were reading below the average range (30th percentile)! • Intervention students had steeper rates of improvement than typical readers on word reading, passage fluency, and phonological awareness. • Published by SRA

  23. Responsive Reading Instruction(Denton and Hocker, 2006) • 40 minute lessons; 3 students • Mathes, et al 2005 study …. • Excellent gains after 91 hours of instruction • Only 7% of the students were reading below the average range (30th percentile)! • Intervention students had steeper rates of improvement than typical readers on word reading, passage fluency, and phonological awareness. • Published by Cambrium Learning

  24. Tier 3 Literacy Interventions • No standard treatment protocols at this level….one size will not fit all! • Word-level interventions • Comprehension/Vocabulary interventions

  25. Word-level Interventions Emphasize(Simmons & Kame'enui, 2004) • Phonemic awareness (prerequisite skills) • Letter sound correspondence • Regular word reading (using decoding skills) • Regular word reading in text (lots of text!) • Irregular word reading • Advanced word analysis • All six syllable types • Prefixes and suffixes

  26. Comprehension/Vocabulary Interventions Emphasize Magnificent seven (Pearson, et al., 1992) • Making connections to prior knowledge • Inferring and predicting • Asking questions • Determining important ideas and summarizing • Visualizing • Synthesizing and retelling • Monitoring and clarifying understanding of text and vocabulary

  27. Examples of Tier 3 Word-Level Interventions • LANGUAGE! www.sopriswest.com • Project Read www.projectread.com • Slingerland www.slingerland.org • Spalding Writing Road to Reading www.spalding.org • S.P.I.R.E. www.epsbooks.com • Take Flight www.tsrhc.org • Wilson Reading Systemwww.wilsonlanguage.com

  28. Examples of Tier 3 Comprehension/Vocabulary Interventions • Corrective Reading: Comprehension • www.sraonline.com • Language for Learning • www.sraonline.com • Language for Thinking • www.sraonline.com • Text Talk • www.scholastic.com • Voyager Passport and Voyager Journeys • http://voyagerlearning.com • AMP Reading System • www.pearsonschool.com

  29. Questions from SPED Coordinators • RTI and SPED eligibility questions • When should referral be to SPED? • What must SPED look for in RTI information before accepting a referral?

  30. When should referral be to SPED? • When the process has been followed with consistency and documentation shows the need for more intensive interventions. • Some valuable documentation forms • Student Intervention Documentation Form • K-3 walkthrough • 4-12 walkthrough

  31. One more thing from Denise…SPED after RTI? • LRE will be impacted! • How will we use inclusion? • Need for DIRECT services • Intensive, intensive intervention if Tiers did not result in success! • Probably some 1:1 • Must have homogeneous grouping if not 1:1 • Ongoing progress monitoring

  32. THANK YOU! gibbsdenise@aol.com RTI for Middle and High School: Structures and Strategies for Literacy Success (2009) www.LRP.com

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