1. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Jim Wright www.interventioncentral.org

2. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
A teacher who has never referred to the RTI Team before comes to the meeting believing that the team can help her get the student referred for a special education evaluation. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

3. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
The RTI Team discovers during the initial meeting that they lack crucial background/baseline information about student (e.g., current reading levels, estimates of off-task behavior). !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

4. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
The referring teacher vents and vents and vents about the student during the meeting, leaving very little time to follow the problem-solving steps. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

5. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
The teacher and team start to talk about the student’s chaotic home situation. All hope is sucked from the room. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

6. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
The RTI Team selects an intervention that does not logically link to the assessment information that they collected (e.g., deciding to include the student in a self-esteem group when the identified problem is a reading deficit). !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

7. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
The RTI Team signs up to take on so much of the intervention and monitoring that the referring teacher has little to do. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

8. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
Confidential information about something the referring teacher said at an RTI Team meeting is shared outside of the meeting—and that teacher finds out about it! !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held

9. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls
The RTI Team comes together for a follow-up meeting and discovers that the teacher was not able to implement the intervention at all. !
Baseline Data Collected
Teacher Referral
Initial Meeting Held
Intervention Started & Monitored
Follow-Up Meeting Held