RTI Response to Instruction A View of the Ascension Experience

Introduction  IDEIA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 Our mission: “We Believe that…All students are children of God, gifted with the ability to learn.”

RTI: Ascension Catholic School  High quality core classroom instruction.  Supplemented, as needed, by progressively more intensive interventions.  Data collected of our K-8 students, three time a year, with a universal screener.

Doing What Works/ US Departement of Education

3 Tiered-Instruction Framework  Tier 1 -Core instruction: All Students -Core instruction: All Students  Tier 2 -Interventions: -Interventions: Small Group  Tier 3 -Intensive Support: One-to-One -Intensive Support: One-to-One Tiers are permeable and flexible Tiers are permeable and flexible

Benchmarks  Grade Level Benchmarking: Standardized, Norm-Referenced, Reading and Math assessments given 3 times per year -all students -all students -quick -quick -high specificity and sensitivity -high specificity and sensitivity

Progress Monitoring and Data- Driven Decision Making  Progress monitoring: -1 minute probe -1 minute probe -skill specific -skill specific -on student’s grade level -on student’s grade level  Data-Driven Decision Making: -allows for quick changes in interventions -allows for quick changes in interventions -allows for prescriptive instruction -allows for prescriptive instruction

Parent Role  Parents are provided with: information regarding their child’s current level of performanceinformation regarding their child’s current level of performance interventionsinterventions goals and expected progressgoals and expected progress timely reports of progress or lack of progresstimely reports of progress or lack of progress

From the Administrator View  Core group of teachers are strength  Not everyone on board to start… It is more than a goal  Not mandated  Challenge of financing  It’s a process

Changes…  No school psychologist on staff  History of IAT  The need for more data collection  Teacher involvement process

Staffing it all…  Team Effort  Teachers  Auxiliary Employees  Federal Title 1  Paraprofessionals  Parent Volunteers  Facilitating Leadership

From the Classroom Perspective  Frustration of “Sending them on..”  More and more students with needs  Journey to RTI; with RTI

How will we know when students have acquired the essential knowledge and skill? What do we want students to learn? How will we respond when they don’t learn?

From the Intervention Specialist View  Tier 3 of RTI Intensive Interventions - Accommodations vs. Modifications - Accommodations vs. Modifications  Interdisciplinary Team Approach

Volunteers  Use the wealth of gifts in parish, parents & seniors.  Link to AAT - Ascension Academic Team of volunteer- trained & organized! trained & organized!

History of AAT  Idea Evolved  Ascension Academic Team (AAT) emerged  Volunteer Coordinator position established

Ascension Academic Team Update…  36 trained Volunteers staffing the Ascension schedule, with Nancy Blatt, our Volunteer Coordinator.  16 of 22 teachers utilizing the Team serving students in K – 8 grades primarily in Reading and Math.  1547 hours of volunteer assistance to the students and teachers in

ARTIC Perspective  Ascension Response To Instruction Collaborative (ARTIC)  Teacher Driven – Student Centered  Building Teacher consensus-PLC  Provides sound, high-quality instruction for ALL students  Created dynamic discussions -within grade levels -within grade levels -across grade levels -across grade levels -across disciplines -across disciplines

RTI Resources  RTI School Building Blueprint, National Assoc.  Turning Parents Into Volunteers Online book by Rhonda Jones, MA  DIBELS - dibels.uoregon.edu  AIMSweb - aimsweb.com/

RTI Multiple Choice Review  A. Regional Transit Incorporated  B. Religion Teachers Institute  C. Response to Intervention