RTI SUMMITAPRIL 28 , 2010

GAIL JESSET T, SPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLSDEBBIE LAHUE, NORTHEAST WA ESD 101

Coaching Within Your TeamBecoming Each Other’s Best Resource

OBJECTIVES OF THIS SESSION…

Utilize thoughtful questions, structured dialogue and a protocol to facilitate growth among team members

Examine a protocol which facilitates the thoughtful analysis of data

Actively engage in a protocol: The Collaborative Learning Cycle

Process the experience

STUDENT ASSESSMENT DATA INFORMS TEACHERS ABOUT APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTIONAL DECISIONS

EXAMINING DATA CAN IMPROVE INSTRUCTION IN TIER 1 AND INFORMS ACTIONS TAKEN IN TIERS 2 AND 3

PROGRESS MONITORING IS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL IN THE RTI MODEL

How utilizing your team’s expertise to thoughtfully analyze data benefits

the RTI model…

BYBRUCE WELLMAN AND LAURA LIPTON

Data Driven DialogueA Facilitator’s Guide to Collaborative

Inquiry

The Collaborative Learning Cycle

Activating and

Engaging

Exploring and Discovering

Organizing and

Integrating

Activating and EngagingSurfacing Experiences and Expectations

Occurs before data is presented

Reveals predictions and assumptions

Sets the tone and establishes group norms

Honors and expands group member’s expertise

Seeking to understand—not to persuade

Exploring and DiscoveringAnalyzing the Data

Purposeful uncertainty—avoid rushing to conclusions

Exploring multiple possibilities within the data

Distinguishing, analyzing, comparing and contrasting

Recording ‘rough observations’ and ‘refined observations’

Shared displays of data v.s. individual sheets create a collaborative experience

Organizing and IntegratingGenerating Theory and Plans of Action

Sets the scene for detailed planning processes

Multiple voices and multiple interpretations serve the work at this phase

Framing the problem

Developing solutions

Rapid closure is the enemy at this stage

Data Teams

Facilitator Ask questions Check for Understanding Monitor for balanced participation

Recorder Record group’s thinking

Materials Manager

Get data chart and display charts for viewing and recording

The Collaborative Learning Cycle

Activating and

Engaging

Exploring and Discovering

Organizing and

Integrating

Background Information…

Urban schoolEnrollment of approximately 400 studentsFree and Reduced lunch rate of 91%Highly transient populationStudents receiving special education

services: 21.6%Use of the tiered RTI model to respond to

student’s instructional needs for the past 4 years

The Data…

Second grade reading scores from 2002-2008 indicating the number of students who are below, approaching, meeting and exceeding standard.

Activating and Engaging

What are some predictions we are making?

With what assumptions are we entering?

What are some questions we are asking?

What are some possibilities for learning that this experience presents to us?

The Collaborative Learning Cycle

Activating and

Engaging

Exploring and Discovering

Organizing and

Integrating

Exploring and Discovering

What important points seem to “pop out”?

What are some patterns, categories or trends that are emerging?

What seems to be surprising or unexpected?

What are some thing we have not yet explored?

The Collaborative Learning Cycle

Activating and

Engaging

Exploring and Discovering

Organizing and

Integrating

Organizing and Integrating

THEORIES:What are some

inferences/explanations/conclusions we might draw?

What additional data sources might we explore to confirm our explanations?

ACTION:What are some solutions we might explore as

a result of our conclusions?

OBJECTIVES OF THIS SESSION…

Utilize thoughtful questions, structured dialogue and a protocol to facilitate growth among team members

Examine a protocol which facilitates the thoughtful analysis of data

Actively engage in the Collaborative Learning Cycle

Process the experience

Processing the ExperienceReflecting on this experience, what are some things you noticed about….

Yourself Your Group

The Structure The Facilitation