1. High School Strategies
Session 4
RTI

2. What is Response to Intervention:
Response to Intervention is NOT:
Just a Special Education initiative
Only for students with disabilities
Only for beginning reading
Only for non-Title 1 and non-ESL students
A new way to identify students with SLD
A way of reducing costs or eliminating special education or the LD category
This year’s summer reform or a short-term implementation based on “RTI in a Box”
A way to fix schools with weak core instruction
Source: Fletcher, Jack (2013) Classifications and Definitions for the Identification of Learning Disabilities: An Evaluation of the Research. Presentation for RTI²: A School Psychologist’s Guide to Implementation. Murfreesboro, TN.

3. Response to Intervention Is:
A set of processes for coordinating high quality service delivery in schools
A multi-tiered, layered instructional approach that prevents problems first, and then brings increasingly intense interventions to students who don’t respond
Making instructional decisions based on data
Integrating entitlement programs with general education
Providing relevant data for SLD identification
Primary goal: Improving academic (and behavioral) outcomes for all students by eliminating discrepancies between actual and expected performance.
Source: Fletcher, Jack (2013) Classifications and Definitions for the Identification of Learning Disabilities: An Evaluation of the Research. Presentation for RTI²: A School Psychologist’s Guide to Implementation. Murfreesboro, TN.

5. Why RTI?
The role of the public education system is to prepare all students for success after high school. Response to Instruction and Intervention is designed to empower educators to give every student the opportunity to meet high expectations and the support to reach them.

6. WHY
In the United States, the special education redesignation rate (the rate at which students have exited special education and returned to general education) is only 4 percent (U.S. Department of Education, 1996).
According to the U.S. Department of Education, the graduation rate of students with special needs is 57 percent (National Center on Secondary Education and Transition [NCSET], 2006).
It is estimated that up to 50 percent of the U.S. prison population were identified as students with special needs in school (NCSET, 2006).

8. Tennessee’s Competitiveness
Our transition to Tennessee State Standards is central to strengthening Tennessee’s competitiveness
Tennessee’s Competitiveness
Only 21% of adults in TN have a college degree
TN ranks 46th in 4th grade math and 41st in 4th grade reading nationally
54% of new jobs will require post-secondary education
Only 16% of high school seniors in TN are college ready
Source: “Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018” (The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce), 2011 NCES NAEP data, ACT

11. Former Learning Pathway
Learning Difficulty
Modification
Accomodation

12. RTI
Learning Difficulty t
Intervention

13. Myths Barbara J. Ehren, Ed.D., University of Central Florida, Orlando
It is fruitless to spend time and money on struggling adolescents because they have passed the point at which instruction or intervention can make a real difference.
Instruction that works with young children will be equally effective for older students.
Literacy is not the job of secondary educators.
Little can be done for students who are not motivated to engage in learning.
 Barbara J. Ehren, Ed.D., University of Central Florida, Orlando

15. What is RTI?
“Response to Intervention is not a new concept. RTI is about providing good teaching, seeing how it is working, and then making adjustments when needed.”
Gibbs, D. (2009). RTI in middle and high school: Strategies and structures for literacy success. Horsham, PA: LRP

16. Benefits of RTI Timely interventions to meet student need
Individualized plan for each student
Progress data to measure growth
Closes achievement gaps
Increases achievement
Better post secondary outcomes/opportunities

17. Culture Shift Leadership is key in creating culture shift
Leadership must believe that intervention for students in reading and math is important
Leadership must be committed to the belief that all students will learn
Leadership must put all of the pieces in place
EWS, scheduling, PD, fidelity checks, …

24. EWS Tool

26. Intervention Planning
Based upon data the school team determines intervention needs and progress monitoring.
Academic
Behavioral
Social/emotional

44. Tier III Replacement Decisions/Special Education

45. Resources

49. Resources http://www.tncore.org/rti.aspx