Response to Intervention (RtI)

1. Response to Intervention (RtI) How can we make it work in Wisconsin?

2. The concept of RtI is quite simple doing RtI well is quite complex.

3. Our New Wisconsin Promise: Our shared commitment to raising achievement for all students and closing the achievement gap that exists between economically disadvantaged students, children of color, and their peers.

4. RtI is a process forachieving higher levels of academic and behavioral success for all students through: High Quality Instructional Practice Continuous Review of Student Progress (multiple measures) Collaboration

5. High Quality Instructional Practice High quality instructional practice responds to the individual differences within a learning community (classroom). Multiple ways to motivate and challenge students Multiple ways for students to demonstrate and teachers to assess student progress Multiple ways for students to acquire and apply expected knowledge and skills

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

7. High Quality Instructional Practice High quality instructional practice provides appropriate intervention/additional servicesfor students who need them.

8. Continuous Review of Student Progress Formative A System of Constant Inquiry Summative BALANCED ASSESSMENT

9. Teams of educators with a variety of expertise - in partnership with parents and community resources - Collaboration

10. Collaboration Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership with parents and community resources - Classroom

11. Collaboration Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership with parents and community resources - Classroom

12. Collaboration Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership with parents and community resources - Differentiated Instruction within the classroom

13. Collaboration Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership with parents and community resources - Differentiated Instruction within the classroom

14. Collaboration Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership with parents and community resources - Intervention/Additional Services

15. Collaboration Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership with parents and community resources- Intervention/Additional Services

16. RtI is a PK-12 initiative for:High Quality Instructional Practice Continuous Review of Student Progress Collaboration that has applications for General Education Special Education Gifted and Talented Title I English Language Learners Etc.

17. 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. Principles for the successful implementation of RtIin Wisconsin:

18. Opportunities … … … Challenges … … … Making RtI Work in Wisconsin: How do wemaximize our opportunitiesandminimize our challenges?