RtI: Keeping It Simple… Jenn Sheldon Amy Galicia

Agreements Our Finest Hour One Fine Team Reflect Personal Needs Blast off!

RtI in PSD

Big Question RtI: How do we make connections, make it simple, and make it work?

Objectives What is the RtI framework and how do we make it simple? How do we connect all that we do in the RtI Framework? How do we effectively implement the Problem Solving Process? What are our next steps?

What is the RtI framework and how do we make it simple? What is the RtI Framework?

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What is a system? A system is a collection of parts that interact to function as a whole.

Keeping it Simple… RtI is a system for meeting all students’ needs. It requires us to think like a system!

Think like a system! The Handbook for SMART School Teams, Conzemius and O’Neill 2002 Solution Tree pp Events Patterns of Behavior Systemic Structures Mental Models System

Feedback Loops Info about a problem ActionResult The Handbook for SMART School Teams, Conzemius and O’Neill 2002 Solution Tree p. 181 ActionResult Information about a problem

Learning Process Collectively Review Personally Reflect Collaboratively Plan

Keep it EASy… Establish All Systems! The A Team The B Team Grade Level Content Area Teams Student Success Teams

The A Team Events Patterns of Behavior Systemic Structure Mental Models The A Team Purpose: Set School-wide Academic Goals and identify strategies for achieving them

The B Team Events Patterns of behavior Systemic Structure Mental Models The B Team Purpose: Set School-wide Behavior Goals and identify strategies for achieving them

Grade Level/Content Area Teams What do we want students to learn? How will we know they are learning it and learned it? How will we effectively teach what we want students to learn? What will we do if they don’t ? What will we do if they already do? Purpose: Work collaboratively to examine instruction and ultimately meet all students’ needs.

Student Success Teams Define the problem Create a plan Implement the plan Evaluate the plan Purpose: Assist teams through the problem solving process

Inspection Before take-off let’s do one last inspection and brainstorm approaches.

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How Do We Connect All That We Do?

Connect the System Using the terms given to your group, create a graphic that represents the connections that can be made to a systems approach to Response to Intervention You may add additional “components” if you need to. You may replicate slips of paper. You should try to use as many of these terms as possible.

SYSTEMS PRACTICES DATA Systems: supports needed to ensure accurate, durable implementation of practices Practices: strategies & interventions that are evidence- based OUTCOMES Outcomes: academic and behavior targets identified by school Data: Information used to make accurate and appropriate decisions Integrated Elements of RtI:A RtI:B Adapted from a slide by George Sugai and Rob Horner PBIS

PLC Questions What do we want our students to know? (Outcomes) How will we know they are learning it? (Data) How will we respond if students don’t learn? (Systems and Practices) How will we respond if they already know it? (Systems and Practices) How do we effectively teach what we want them to know? (Systems and Practices)

What do we want students to learn?

How will we effectively teach it?

The Teaching and Learning Cycle

Reflect What conditions are supporting or hindering effective universal instruction for all students? (Think both academics and behavior)

SYSTEMS PRACTICES DATA Systems: supports needed to ensure accurate, durable implementation of practices Practices: strategies & interventions that are evidence- based OUTCOMES Outcomes: academic and behavior targets identified by school Data: Information used to make accurate and appropriate decisions Integrated Elements of RtI:A RtI:B Adapted from a slide by George Sugai and Rob Horner PBIS

How will we know they have learned it?

Assessments Screening – –Quick efficient measures of overall ability and critical skills known to be strong indicators that predict student performance Progress monitoring – –Also brief, given periodically to determine whether students are making adequate progress

Assessments continued… Diagnostic – –Provide in depth, reliable assessment of targeted skills Outcome – –Given at the end of the school year used for school, district, and state reporting purposes

Reflect What systems are in place to assess and use data to inform our decisions?

SYSTEMS PRACTICES DATA Systems: supports needed to ensure accurate, durable implementation of practices Practices: strategies & interventions that are evidence- based OUTCOMES Outcomes: academic and behavior targets identified by school Data: Information used to make accurate and appropriate decisions Integrated Elements of RtI:A RtI:B Adapted from a slide by George Sugai and Rob Horner PBIS

What do we do if they don’t know it? What do we do if they already know it?

Intervention is… the systematic and explicit instruction provided to accelerate growth in an area of identified academic and/or behavioral need.

Intervention is not… a person a place a modification an accommodation progress monitoring an assessment

Intervention is Focused on a specific area of concern Provides direct explicit instruction in a timely manner related to the area of concern Can be adjusted by frequency, duration and intensity

How Do We Implement the Problem Solving Process?

What is the Problem Solving Process? Systematic Data-driven Collaborative Approach for supporting all students. Identification Prevention

How do we effectively implement the Problem Solving Process? Defined Protocol and Process Solution focused Used with the grade level/content area teams and Student Success Teams Fluid Kranz at his console on May 30, 1965, in the Mission Operations Control Room, Mission Control Center, HoustonMission Control CenterHouston

Define the problem Create a plan Implement the plan Evaluate the plan Directly Measure the behavior/skill Analyze and validate the problem Identify variables Determine Root Cause Target the area of concern Determine intensity, frequency and duration Implement the plan as intended Progress monitor Modify as necessary Evaluate the plan and the student’s response End the plan, create a new one or adjust intensity, frequency, duration

What is the purpose of SST? ? Assist teams through the problem solving process by collaboratively creating and implementing targeted and intense interventions, progress monitoring and the evaluating the effectiveness and fidelity of the plan

Progress Monitoring Essential to determine effectiveness of instructional programs and interventions Data is used to determine movement of students within the tiers Used to make decisions during problem solving process Varies depending on the level of intensity

Progress Monitoring at the Tiers Tier I- provided to all students using on going universal screeners and assessments aligned with instruction Tier II and Tier III- more strategic and targeted –Focus on current levels of performance –Tools should be flexible, efficient, accessible, and informative

Progress Monitoring Tools Available… Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) –Standard direction, materials, scoring rules, and is a timed assessment –Examples included MBSP (Math Basic Skills), DIBELS, Jim Wright, probes from Aimsweb, etc.

Designated Consultant Informs and supports the teacher Communicates regularly with the teacher Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., prime crew commander of Apollo 14, monitors communications between the Apollo 13 spacecraft and the Mission Control Center.

Reflect What have you found effective and what challenges are you facing?

Team Time Work with your team/colleagues to review your action plan based on the RtI Indicators. How will you prioritize your work? Please be prepared to share: –What have you gotten today that you will share back at your school? –What are you committing to do when you return to your building?

A Safe Landing…

Objectives What is the RtI framework and how do we make it simple? How do we connect all that we do in the RtI Framework? How do we effectively implement the Problem Solving Process? What are our next steps?

Big Question RtI: How do we make connections, make it simple, and make it work?

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Orbit Activity When you think like about successful systems of implementation of an intervention or enrichment block, what would contribute to its success?