Understanding our students at a deeper level with…

Response to Intervention (RtI)

• General education• Special education• Gifted and talented• Title 1• English language learners

RtI is a K-12 initiative for…

ALL STUDENTS

Instructional practices respond to individual differences in a learning community.

Multiple ways for students to acquire and apply expected knowledge and skills

Multiple ways to motivate and challenge students

Multiple ways for students to

demonstrate and teachers to assess

student progress

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.

High Quality Instructional Practice

differentiated instruction

High quality instructional practice provides appropriate

for students who need them.

High Quality Instructional Practice

Intervention(s)/additional services

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.

RtI Intervention Process

For a few students…intensive instructional intervention may be

necessary

Additional instruction in specific content strands may be needed for identified students in targeted areas (a double

dose)

Classroom instruction with differentiation is sufficient for most students but what

about those that need a little extra?

3-5%

80%

10-15%

Tier 1

Tier 3

Tier 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Progress Monitoring

All interventions must have a

progress monitoring

component to determine their effectiveness.

Doing RtI well is quite complex.

The concept of RtI is quite simple