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