1. Response to Intervention

2. Objectives Participants will
Gain a deeper knowledge of Response to Intervention so that they can immediately apply its principles

3. Agenda The Four Questions of RTI The Four Cs of RTI
Essential Standards Chart
Cycle of RTI
Building a System of Supports – RTI Rubric
Decision Making in RTI
Decision Making Within Tiers of Support
Progress Monitoring – Decision Flowchart
RTI Resources

4. RTI and PLC in Good Spirit
RTI has everything in common with PLC
Various, more individualized levels of intervention for struggling students
Balancing accountability and RTI
RTI cannot be a mandate – it will look different in each school
RTI can work with our current level of resources.

5. RTI and PLC in Good Spirit
RTI in a classroom, within a team, and across the school.
The Who, What, and When of RTI
RTI ≠ Lots of paperwork
Small group instruction must be a part of every classroom
RTI – Loose v. Tight
How of we measure our effectiveness?

6. Where Did RTI Come From? PL 94-142 IQ and the Discrepancy Model
Over-representation
President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education
IDEIA 2004
“RTI is a general education initiative”

7. RTI

8. RTI

9. Response to Intervention
About which students do we have concerns?
In what areas do we have concerns?
Academics
Social behaviors
Academic behaviors
What are we currently doing to support students and meet the student needs? What supports will we be providing in the future?
Has the student responded to the instruction and interventions we have been providing?
Four Questions of RTI

10. 4 Cs of RTI Collective Responsibility Concentrated Instruction
Convergent Assessment
Certain Access

11. Collective Responsibility
A shared belief that the primary responsibility of each member of the organization is to ensure high levels of learning for every child. Thinking is guided by the question…
Why are we here? 11

12. Collective Responsibility
Commit to collective responsibility for ALL students' learning
Openly discuss expectations, biases, and experiences
Research schools that have been successful with students like those you serve
Foster a collaborative culture
Build trust
Start a professional book club
Identify and celebrate the strengths of all staff
Acknowledge your areas for growth

13. Collective Responsibility
Open your doors to colleagues, share best practice and ideas, and be willing to learn
Schedule regular lesson studies or co-plan/co-teach opportunities
Arrange for roving substitutes so that teachers can watch and learn from teachers
Create weekly team time during which teachers focus on student learning
Bank minutes to build time into the day
Create and commit to team norms that allow for open, focused dialogue

14. Concentrated Instruction
A systematic process of identifying essential knowledge and skills that all students must master to learn at high levels and determining the specific learning needs for each child needed to get there. Thinking is guided by the question… Where do we need to go? 14

15. Concentrated Instruction
Focus on essential learning
Identify and unpack the most essential standards and learning targets for your grade level or content area
Essential Standards Chart
Ensure that your core instruction is sound
Systemically, collaboratively analyze your craft so that instruction constantly improves
Differentiate for all learners (content, process, product)
Build daily, small group, targeted support into each lesson

16. Concentrated Instruction
Identify and explicitly teach social behaviors
Teach and expect students to self-monitor
Concentrating, Screening, and Planning for Behavioral Supports
Identify and explicitly teach academic behaviors
Teach and expect students to self-regulate
Self-Regulatory Assessment Tool
Self-Regulatory Problem Solving Tool

17. Convergent Assessment
An ongoing process of collectively analyzing targeted evidence to determine the specific learning needs of each child and the effectiveness of the instruction the child receives in meeting these needs. Thinking is guided by the question… Where are we now? 17

18. Convergent Assessment
Efficiently screen to identify students at-risk
Create assessments to measure student mastery of essential skills
Enthusiastically monitor student progress
Identify assessments that can be use to validly and reliable monitor student progress
Develop a systematic plan to monitor the progress of students at-risk regularly

19. Convergent Assessment – Diagnosing Reading Difficulties Reading Domains, Skills, Assessments

20. Convergent Assessment
Assess for social behaviors
Analysis of the Function of Behavior
SSRS
BDF
Assess for academic behaviors
Self-Regulatory Assessment Tool
Self-Regulatory Problem Solving Tool

21. Convergent Assessment
Schedule regular meetings during which teacher teams (weekly) and teacher teams with administrators (monthly) analyze:
About which students do we have concerns?
In what areas do we have concerns?
What are we doing to support students?
Have students responded to the instruction and interventions we have been providing?

22. Certain Access
A systematic process that guarantees every student will receive the time and support needed to learn at high levels. Thinking is guided by the question…
How do we get every child there? 22

23. Certain Access When – scheduling and programming
Schedule time for interventions first
Protect collaborative time
Protect reading, writing, and mathematics
Challenge assumptions
Who – interventionists
Inventory human resources
Use staff creatively

24. Certain Access
What – identify high quality, expertly-implemented interventions for the at-risk learners at your school
Social behaviors
Strategies for Improving Behavior Checklist
Academic behaviors
Self-Regulatory Assessment Tool
Self-Regulatory Problem Solving Tool

25. Certain Access
Eagerly communicate needs and progress to all stakeholders
Develop a system for communicating the progress of students at-risk to the student, parents, and all staff who work with the student
Do whatever it takes to ensure every student learns - with intensity, a sense of urgency, and the expectation that learning WILL occur
Celebrate and highlight successes
Study them so they can be replicated
Monitor every aspect of the RTI system to ensure that it is faithfully and energetically implemented.

26. Scenario
RTI is a verb

27. Tiers Tier 1 – Core Tiers 2 and 3 – More
Classroom teacher or collaborative team
Within the instructional block
Tiers 2 and 3 – More
Increasing the frequency of the support
Increasing the duration of the support
Decreasing the student-teacher ratio on the intervention group
Increasing the specificity of the support

28. Essential Standards Chart
Standard/Description
What is the essential standard to be learned? Describe in student-friendly vocabulary.
Example/Rigor
What does proficient student work look like? Provide an example and/or description.
Prior Skills Needed
What prior knowledge, skills, and/or vocabulary is/are needed for a student to master this standard?

29. Essential Standards Chart
Common Assessment
What assessment(s) will be used to measure student mastery?
When Taught?
When will this standard be taught?
Enrichment
What will we do when students have learned the essential standard(s)?

30. Repeat for additional learning targets as needed
Cycle of RTI
Select and unwrap essential student learning outcomes and indicators and develop a unit assessment plan
Give PreTest and preteach
Analyze summative assessment results, identify students in need of supplemental interventions
Introduce learning targets to students. Begin core instruction.
Repeat for additional learning targets as needed
Give Formative Assessment
Give end of unit Assessment
Analyze formative assessment results, provide mid-unit interventions, continue and/or complete core instruction

31. Building a System of Supports
RTI Rubric
4 – Consistent and Effective
3 – Fairly Consistent and Generally Effective
2 – Inconsistent and Occasionally Effective
1 – Not Present or Observable

32. Collective Responsibility

33. Concentrated Instruction

34. Convergent Assessment

35. Certain Access

36. Decision Making in RTI Decision Making Within Tiers of Support
4 – Consistent and Effective
3 – Fairly Consistent and Generally Effective
2 – Inconsistent and Occasionally Effective
1 – Not Present or Observable

37. Decision Making in RTI Decision Making Within Tiers of Support

38. Decision Making in RTI Decision Making Within Tiers of Support

39. Decision Making in RTI Decision Making Within Tiers of Support

40. Decision Making in RTI Progress Monitoring – Decision Flowchart
What is the rate of improvement?
Meeting targets?
“Consider…”

42. Decision Making in RTI Progress Monitoring – Decision Flowchart
What is the rate of improvement?
Meeting targets?
“Consider…”

43. Thank You! Pyramid Response to Intervention Chris Weber
@Chi_educate
Christopher Weber

45. Thank You!