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2. RtII Instructional Tier I Strategies
Presenter: Kelly Smith, Instructional Specialist, GEAR UP – 1

3. Session Outcomes Participants will: Review the RtII Structure
Review ICLE’s Philosophy
Explore how RtII uses data to drive decisions
Gain strategies for various content areas

4. Instructional Strategies Reading and Math Strategies
Agenda
Welcome/Overview
Setting the Focus
Data and RtII
What are the
3 R’s?
Writing Strategies
RtII Tier I
Instructional Strategies
Reading and Math Strategies
Vocab. Strategies
Our
Model of RtII
Introduction
to RtII

5. ICLE’s Philosophy
Relationships
Relevance
Rigor
For All Students

6. RTI Defined
“RTI is the practice of providing high quality instruction matched to students needs and using rate of learning over time to make important educational decisions.”
National Association of State Directors of Special Education (2005).

7. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

8. How does this relate to RTI?
Weight Loss
Your Experience
Problem-Solving Process
Identify problem
Develop plan
Evaluate plan
Data
Times to pool
Pounds lost
Instruction/
Intervention
Swimming
Swimming with partner
Diet
Walking
Shared Responsibility
Presenters
Lifeguard
Husband/Son

9. System Prior to Change Special Education Sea of Ineligibility
General Education

10. Changing Special Education: 1990s...Bridging the Gap
Interventions
General Education

11. “If you teach the same curriculum, to all students, at the same time, at the same rate, using the same materials, with the same instructional methods, with the same expectations for performance and grade on a curve you have fertile ground for growing special education.”
Gary Germann, 2003

12. First things First… RtII is Informed by Data

13. PG Page X
How Data is Used
What data do your school currently collect? Who has access to these data and how are they used?
Data collected Who has access How it is used
Administrators,
Teachers,
Parents
State Test Scores
To determine areas of strength and areas of improvements

14. Activating Data to Move Forward
Assessment
Gap Analysis
Adjustment in Instruction/
Response to Intervention (RTI)
Writing Prompts
Sixth grade English Learners
(boys - 25% gap)
Focus on academic vocabulary and language structure practice

15. What RtII’s Model Looks Like…

16. What Is Tiered Instruction?
PG Page X
What Is Tiered Instruction?
Tier III: For 5 to 7 percent of students, personalized, higher intensity and longer enduring intervention are required.
Tier II: For 15 percent of students, achievement and behavior challenges are overcome successfully in an environment of explicit and intensive instruction. 
Tier I: All students start here, progressing through a core curriculum.

17. RTI: A Data-Based Process
What is the problem?
Why is the problem occurring?
How will we solve the problem?
Did we solve the problem?
Problem Identification
Problem Analysis
Intervention
Evaluation

18. Positive Academic Supports Blueprint
General Education
Effective Instruction
Modification
Remediation
Accommodations
Interventions
Assistive Supports
Compensation
With Consultation
With Intervention
Project Achieve 2007

19. Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success
Academic Systems
Behavioral Systems
Intensive, Individual Interventions
Individual Students
Assessment-based
High Intensity
Intensive, Individual Interventions
Individual Students
Assessment-based
Intense, durable procedures
1-5%
1-5%
Targeted Group Interventions
Some students (at-risk)
High efficiency
Rapid response
5-10%
5-10%
Targeted Group Interventions
Some students (at-risk)
High efficiency
Rapid response
Universal Interventions
All students
Preventive, proactive
Universal Interventions
All settings, all students
Preventive, proactive
80-90%
80-90%

20. Philadelphia School District RtII Model
Attendance
Behavioral
Health
~85% of students
Level 1
~10 % of Students
Level 2
~5% of Students
Level 3
Small Group/Individual
Discipline
Small Group
Literacy
Whole Class

21. Vocabulary Intervention Must Incorporate:
Integration – connecting new vocabulary to prior knowledge
Repetition – must use the concepts many times
Meaningful – vocabulary must be used in an organic way

22. Vocabulary Strategies
Frontloading – modified KWL
S.T.A.R.
Scattergories
Pictionary

23. Reading Comprehension Strategies
Read and Think Alouds
Graphic Organizers
Structured Note Taking
Reciprocal Teaching

24. Writing Strategies
Show Don’t Tell
Sentence Starters
Guided Writing

25. Math Strategies CRA: Concrete – Representational - Abstract
Math Manipulatives
Acronyms
Language Rich Classroom

26. More on CRA
Concrete Representational Abstract (CRA) is a three step instructional approach that has been found to be highly effective in teaching math concepts. - The first step is called the concrete stage. It is known as the “doing” stage and involves physically manipulating objects to solve a math problem. - The representational (semi-concrete) stage is the next step. It is known as the “seeing” stage and involves using images to represent objects to solve a math problem. - The final step in this approach is called the abstract stage. It is known as the “symbolic” stage and involves using only numbers and symbols to solve a math problem. CRA is a gradual systematic approach.

27. Case Study

28. Reflections:
3 points I want to remember about RtII Tier One Strategies…
3 questions that I still need answered…
The next 3 steps I should take to implement RtII with my students…