1. RTI/DI/IST

2. RTI Overview 3 tiers 80% of students should get their needs met by the core curriculum. Universal screening for all students will take place during week of September 14th - schedule to come. Palms will be used. Students below 25th percentile will have interventions implemented immediately!

3. Why Screen? First graders in the bottom quartile in reading have an 88% likelihood of placing in the bottom quartile in 4 th grade and a 78% likelihood of remaining there through 8 th grade. - Juel 1988

4. Our Choices Wait for long term failure which greatly increases the need for intensive interventions including special education. OR Early intervention – actively seek out students at risk of difficulty and intervene immediately prior to long term failure and the need for intensive supports.

5. One Intervention = ALL Students? If a child struggles with reading … –Why are they struggling? –Is it letter recognition? Letter/sound connections? Phonics? Comprehension? Fluency? –Data to back up this observation? Once we have this information, we can find an intervention to meet the need.

6. What Interventions? Storytown Strategic Intervention Kit - in classroom Intensive Intervention Station – in Jackie’s office Read Naturally (Fluency) Phonics Program (Phonics) Soar to Success (Comprehension) Parent Volunteers Jackie

7. How Do I Accomplish This on My Own? You don’t!!!! Use your resources such as parent volunteers, Jackie, remedial asst’s, aides Work with your grade level team during PLC’s to focus on student needs and make a plan. Use common time among grade levels to form DI groups so that students get the specific help they need.

8. Example!! LA Skill - compare and contrast 4 groups (one teacher per group) –Group 1: Doesn’t get it! Start from the beginning! –Group 2: Seems to get it but needs practice. Work on examples with teacher. –Group 3: Fairly independent, but have not mastered it completely. Teacher guides pairs as they work to compare/contrast each others favorite sports, etc. –Group 4: Independent: contract group to work on world encyclopedia on internet, comparing and contrasting two countries.

9. What About IST? Not sure, but we’ll figure it out together!!! May become more of an RTI Coordinator role in the future. The big question will be when to get parents involved in meetings.

10. Don’t Worry!!! This is our first year with RTI. We are all in this together. There will be a bunch of trial and error going on! Keep the focus on the students. We can make this happen.