A Focus on Results…

1. A Focus on Results… “To successfully implement RTI, a staff must dissolve the cultural and structural barriers between regular education and special education to create a collective response in which core instruction and supplemental support form a learning continuum to meet the individual needs of every student.” -Buffum, Mattos, Weber; Pyramid Response to Intervention

2. R T I Fundamental Elements Collective Responsibility Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring Systematic Interventions and Decision Protocols Research-Based Core Program and Interventions PLC Essential Characteristics Focus on Learning and Collaborative Culture Focus on Results Action Experimentation Collective Inquiry

3. Pioneer Core Program • --All classes meet or exceed state standards. • --Schoolwide and team SMART goals • --Identified essential standards for every course • --Universal screening in reading, writing and math • --Common assessments for all essential standards • --Universal access to electives • --Leveled reading groups

4. Pioneer Core Program Open tutorial period (Tues/Thurs) Lunch or after-school homework help Quarterly student goal-setting 6th-grade mentor program 6th-grade study skills class Late bus Online grade access Career exploration (dream plan)

5. Identifying and Placing Students

6. Student Identification • Universal screening in reading, writing, and math • Teacher recommendation (including “feeder” elementary schools) • Grades every 3 weeks • Common assessment data

7. Student Identification BEWARE Grades don’t away measure learning. State assessments “Rigid” placement systems

8. Tier 2: Supplemental Interventions “Base-Plus”

9. Pioneer Supplemental Program • Mandatory tutorial • Mandatory homework help • Escorted homework help • Parent-contact or progress report • Fall and spring “at-risk” conferences • One-on-one mentor • New student buddies

10. Pioneer Supplemental Program • Double-block math • Newcomer ELD • AVID • Sheltered classes • Teacher change • Zero-period PE • Honors and accelerated classes

11. Progress Monitoring and Decision Protocols Every 3 weeks -- Teacher recommendation (Grades) -- Common assessment data -- District Benchmark Testing -- Universal Screening again at semester

12. Tier 3: Intensive Interventions

13. Student Identification Intervention team meeting Student study team Parent conference Common assessment data

14. Pioneer Intensive Program • Intensive core support • Intensive math support • Intensive responsibility support • Intensive reading instruction • Mandatory tutorial • Mandatory homework help • Student contracts

15. Progress Monitoring and Decision Protocols Weekly to Daily -- Intensive classes provide daily monitoring -- Common assessment data -- Teacher Recommendations every 3 weeks

16. What if Tier 1, 2, and 3 don’t work? Now, we may consider special education testing.

17. Pioneer’s • Documentation Process