Professional Development Training September 27, 2013 Jubilee Academic Center “A Premier Choice in Education” Angie T. Morales, Special Programs Director RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION (RTI )

 To support all students in the district with a team of educators committed to providing research-based expectations, instruction, and curricula so that students can achieve grade-level standards. RTI MISSION STATEMENT 2

From NCLB: “…holding schools, local education agencies, and States accountable for improving the academic achievement of all students…” and “…promoting school wide reform and ensuring the access of all children to effective, scientifically-based instructional strategies…” [PL §1001(4) and (9)] From IDEA: “…to improve the academic achievement and functional performance of children with disabilities including the use of scientifically based instructional practices, to the maximum extent possible.” [20 U.S.C. 1400(c)(5)(E)] FEDERAL MANDATES REQUIREMENT 3

 To implement proactive models of instruction that allow all students to receive effective instructional as well as behavioral interventions in the general education setting.  Response to Intervention, or RtI, a multi-tiered approach to instruction, is evolving as the framework of the general education program for all students including those who experience difficulties either academically or behaviorally.  RtI helps to ensure that all students have the opportunity to experience a full range of educational opportunities in the general education program. (Texas Education Agency) FEDERAL REQUIREMENT 4

 Referral of students for a full and individual initial evaluation for possible special education services shall be a part of the district’s overall, general education referral or screening system. Prior to referral [to special education] students experiencing difficulty in the general education classroom should be considered for all support services available to all students, such as tutorial; remedial; compensatory; response to scientific, research-based intervention; and other academic and behavior support services. (19 TAC § ). STATE REQUIREMENTS 5

RtI is about PREVENTION – not referral to Special Education RtI is about enhancing, improving and increasing student and staff performance RtI is a General Education initiative that believes we can effectively teach ALL children RtI is about intervening early RtI uses data to make decisions about the curriculum, teacher implementation and child “RtI is about what will be done rather than where it will be done, and how to intervene as opposed to who will do the intervention” 6

 Principal/Designee  RtI/504 Campus Coordinator  Classroom Teacher  LPAC Representative  Instructional /Curriculum  Other: (Specify: Ex. Counselor, Nurse, Special Services or etc.) CAMPUS TEAM MEMBERS Response to Intervention offers assistance to students experiencing problems which interfere with academic performance co-curricular performance emotional, physical, mental and social development 7

R T I E SSENTIAL C OMPONENTS : 1. R T I M ULTI -T IER P ROCESS 2. T HE P ROBLEM S OLVING P ROCESS 3. Integrated Instructional Data Collection/ Assessment Systems 8

Academic SystemsBehavioral Systems 1-5% 15-20% 80-90% Intensive, Individual Interventions Tier IIITier III Individual Students Assessment-based High Intensity Of longer duration Intensive, Individual Interventions Tier IIITier III Individual Students Assessment-based Intense, durable procedures Targeted Group Interventions Tier IITier II Some students (struggling) High efficiency Rapid response Targeted Group Interventions Tier IITier II Some students (struggling) High efficiency Rapid response Universal Interventions Tier ITier I All students Preventive, proactive Universal Interventions Tier ITier I All settings, all students Preventive, proactive E SSENTIAL C OMPONENT 1: R T I M ULTI -T IER P ROCESS 9

Did our plan work? What is the problem and why is it happening? Implement Plan (Treatment Integrity) Are we carrying out the interventions? Evaluate (Progress Monitoring Data) Define the Problem (Screening and Diagnostic Assessments) Develop a Plan (Goal Setting and Planning) What are we going to do? E SSENTIAL C OMPONENT 2: T HE P ROBLEM S OLVING P ROCESS 10

Essential Component 3: Integrated Instructional Data Collection/ Assessment Systems  Assessment of  Skills in state and local standards  “Marker variables” (benchmarks) leading to ultimate instructional target  To be administered  Efficiently  Repeatedly  Provide  Data specific to strategy implemented  Individual student progress monitoring data, sensitive to small increments of growth  Comparison data across students  User-friendly data displays 11

The first and best i ntervention is the CLASSROOM TEACHER !! Interventions always involve instruction 12

 Preferential seating  Shortened assignments  Parent contacts  Classroom observations  Suspension  Doing MORE of the same/ general classroom assignments  Retention  Peer-tutoring The RTI Guide, pg. 51 INTERVENTIONS DO NOT INCLUDE: 13

 Match the deficiency of the skill to the intervention  Modify the modes of task presentation  Cue work habits and organizational skills  Modify direct instruction time  Modify guided and independent practice  Ensure optimal pacing  Increase task structure, such as directions, checks for understanding and feedback  Increase opportunities to engage in active academic responding, such as writing, reading aloud or answering questions in class  Decrease group size Key to Intervention is that teachers and staff implement them with the purpose of improving progress in or toward the grade-level curriculum and to measure or monitor their effectiveness to determine how well the student is responding (progress monitoring) Copyright © ERICC, 2010 INTERVENTION GUIDELINES 14

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 The Florida Center for Reading Research:  Intervention Central:  National Center on Response to Intervention:  RTI Wire: Websites for Interventions 16

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18 RTI PROCESS, FORMS, AND DOCUMENTATION Parent Notification Letter RtI – 1Initial Reporting Form RtI – 2Nurse Screening Form RtI – 3 Individual Intervention Plan RtI – 4Student Roster (Monitoring Tier Placement by RtI Team) RtI – 5Behavior Checklist RtI – 6Classroom Behavior Observation Data RtI – 7 Behavior Intervention Plan RtI -7BBehavior Report Card

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