Noarah–Director of Student Services and RTI Coordinator…
- RTi is NOT a special ed initiative, it is a REGULAR ED initiative
- 5/233/08 All districts had to submit a self-assessment to state?
- Jan 2009 Submitted to state the plan through SIP
- May 2009…intro’d teachers…
- Aug 2009…intro’d / retaught again
Respect the Resistors in Educational Change
Leading n Culture of Change by Michael Fulian…focus on change, build relationships, respect divesity, share critical scrutiny
RTi – Good “IDEA” Policy
- Not new
- Not limited to special ed
- not a program, curriculum strategy or intervention
- approach for redesigning and establishing teaching & establishing teaching and learning environments that are effective, efficient, relevant and durable for aALL students, families and educators
RTi is a Paradigm shift…from teaching to learning
- consider teaching staff the history of RTi so they realize they’ve been doing RTi
- must now show the other piece….that we’ve been doing other interventions for the student before moving to special ed
- Why use it?
- Core Principals–problem solving, problem analysis, etc.
- RTi…use parents as partners in creating/implementing interventions
- Richard Dufore? ? ? Parent Involvement
Consider a Homework Club for Intervention…
- Problem—not turning in homework
- Why? work to do at home/babysit, etc
- Solution–homework club
- follow-up–student post-it notes the work and monitor places it in teachers’ mailboxes
What does Tier 1 look like?
- Universal Screening—we use SRI at freshman….Evergreen Park does every student, every year and every freshman does it without accommodations…plus EPAS…they also do Vantage, Learning Express
- Vision and Hearing Screenings
- Pyramids of Interventions for failures
- Professional Learning Communities (late-start each wed all teachers meet in teams from 8:10 to 8:50 and every other wed fresh/soph students come in for character ed w/ peer mentors and counselors/)
- Peer Tutoring
- ACT Prep for Juniors
- Parent-teacher conferences
- report card pick-up
- Mastery Learning…(they do in all Math courses)
- Re-teaching
- Professional development
- parent workshops
- HOmework club
- Other classroom intervention/instruction
Tier 2
- lots of before and after school tutoring/programs
- SXU sends tutors
- reading enricnments
- math maniacs, power hour, saturday morning breakfast club
- junior level co-teaching in math and reading
- english concepts for seniors
- Read 180
- Remedial math and english for seniors
- frosh/soph mandatory weekly tutoring
Tier 3
- 504 plan
- referral for IEP
- individualized instruction
- pull-out instruction
- health emergency
- homebound services
- alternative placement
- summer school for credit recovery
- other interventions
Behvioral Issues
- h.s. not required for behavior
- but must meet social-emotional learning standards…PD on these
- some behavioral interventions
- PBS : required to a point, applicable, effective
- what is PBS: behavior through positive reinforcement, plan appropriate interventions for behaviors w/ which students most struggle
- Mendler’s suggestions on using these principles…e.g. showing simple courtesies, etc
- create hope in students…..
- acknowledge your mistakes
- respect power
- allow students some choice
- PEP: privacy, eye contact, proximity
- Build Relationships
- 21 day interventions—for 21 days make positive contact w/ an at-risk student
- Staff and Pets relationship bulletin board—gives kids something to ask teachers about
- Express Enthusiasm
- Give kids Goals for PBS
- positive place
- closer community
- rid of bullying
- no negative behavior
Look at the PPT Mustang Matrix…how to act in each area of hte building
Tier @ Interventions……summer school for freshman? math, english, science and how to be succesful in high school???
Allow teachers to deal with minor-incidents in the classroom….
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