Understanding our students at a deeper level with…

1. Understanding our students at a deeper level with… Response to Intervention (RtI)

2. RtIis a K-12 initiative for… • General education • Special education • Gifted and talented • Title 1 • English language learners ALL STUDENTS

3. High Quality Instructional Practice Instructional practices respond to individual differences in a learning community. Multiple ways to motivate and challenge students Multiple ways for students to acquire and apply expected knowledge and skills Multiple ways for students to demonstrate and teachers to assess student progress

4. High Quality Instructional Practice Inherent to a high quality instructional practice for learning is that puts the student at the center of teaching and learning, with the student’s needs driving instruction, not programs or curricula. differentiated instruction

5. High Quality Instructional Practice High quality instructional practice provides appropriate for students who need them. Intervention(s)/ additional services

6. Principles for the successful implementation of RtI… • RtI is for ALL children and ALL educators. • RtI must support and provide value to effective practices. • Success for RtI lies within the classroom through collaboration. • RtI applies to both academics and behavior. • RtI supports and provides value to the use of multiple assessments to inform instructional practices. • RtI is something you do and not necessarily something you buy. • RtI emerges from and supports research and evidence based practice.

7. RtI Intervention Process 3-5% Tier 3 10-15% Tier 2 Tier 1 80%

8. Universal Screeners are intended to help us get to know our students better…

9. Universal Screeners • A universal screener is a valid and reliable assessment that is administered three times per year and provides a quick snapshot of students’ abilities in math and reading. • The screeners will be used until 2014, when the new State assessment system (WKCE) is implemented. • The new WKCE will likely be very similar to the MAP assessments that many districts currently use.

10. RtI Collaborative Teams • RtI is a collaborative process • Decisions are made by a team of people, not by individuals • Teams meet regularly to discuss assessment data, student progress and how to best support our students • Decisions are based on data, not opinions

11. The Data Board • Provides RtI collaborative teams with a visual representation of student data points • Teams collaboratively and systematically analyze data to determine students’ needs and recommend support • Data boards are used to facilitate discussion about the progress of all of our students • Data boards will be introduced later this semester along with ways to analyze data

12. RtI is about collaboratively identifying and providing appropriate, skill-specific interventions, both behaviorally and academically, for identified students.

13. Interventions • Interventions teach a discrete skill that has not been mastered and has been identified as a student-specific need • Interventions include direct instruction as well as application and practice • Interventions include additional minutes of instruction beyond those that all students receive

14. Progress Monitoring All interventions must have a progress monitoring component to determine their effectiveness.

15. The concept of RtI is quite simple Doing RtI well is quite complex.