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Systematically Responding

To The Poverty Crisis

Jill Weber and Tammy Rasmussen

Poverty

Chronic and debilitating condition that results from multiple adverse synergistic risk factors and affects the mind, body, and soul. (Teaching with Poverty in Mind, 2009)

Extent to which an individual does without resources. (A Framework for Understanding Poverty, 2005)

Lack of access to goods and services severe enough to create hardship, illness, or hunger. (Closing the RTI Gap: Why Poverty and Culture Count, 2011)

Achievement and Poverty:What is the Relationship?

Research BriefCollision of IDEA, NCLB, and Title

Collision of IDEA, NCLB, Title. http://nwrcc.educationnorthwest.org/filesnwrcc/webfm/RTI/stevenson.pdf

We can Grow the Brain! http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074.aspx

Early intervention, additional resources for those with the greatest needs, All means All, emphasis on intervention strategies that are research based. NCLB

IDEA

POVE

RTY

PartnershipsOn-going Data CollectionVisionEngagementRelationshipsTeamingYou!

You

Vision

On-going Data Collection

Universal Screening Progress Monitoring Diagnostic

Engaging Instruction

Effective Efficient= Engaging Have you communicated

your instructional expectations?

Do you monitor those expectations?

Do you give explicit feedback?

Instruction

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Instructional Leadership

Family & Community Involvement

Professional Capacity

Learning Climate

InstructionInstructional visionSchool staff develop and implement a coherent school-wide instructional program based on the school’s vision and mission.

Content and pedagogyTeachers engage all students in rigorous lessons aligned with the school’s instructional goals and the appropriate standards.

Data-driven improvementTeachers address all students’ needs by using student work and assessments to make instructional decisions.

Teaming Processes

Universal Screening / 100% Teams 20% Teams Individualizing and Intensifying

How do your teaming processes ensure you ACT and not REACT?

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School Data Teams

Schoolwide Data Team

InterventionTeam

Individual Problem

Solving Team

Relationships

Partnerships

Strong Core

Vocabulary Learning Community Early Intervention Changing the Brain – Eric Jensen