RtI: Keeping

It Simple…

Jenn Sheldon

Amy Galicia

Agreements

• Our Finest Hour

• One Fine Team

• Reflect

• Personal Needs

• Blast off!

RtI in PSD

Big Question

• RtI: How do we make connections, make it simple, and make it work?

Objectives

• What is the RtI framework and how do we make it simple?

• How do we connect all that we do in the RtI Framework?

• How do we effectively implement the Problem Solving Process?

• What are our next steps?

What is the RtI framework and how do we make it simple?

What is the RtI Framework?

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What is a system?

A system is a collection of parts that interact to function as a whole.

Keeping it Simple…

• RtI is a system for meeting all students’ needs.

• It requires us to think like a system!

Think like a system!

The Handbook for SMART School Teams, Conzemius and O’Neill 2002 Solution Tree pp.180-8

Feedback Loops

The Handbook for SMART School Teams, Conzemius and O’Neill 2002 Solution Tree p. 181

Learning Process

Keep it EASy…

• Establish All Systems!

• The A Team

• The B Team

• Grade Level

Content Area Teams

• Student Success Teams

The A Team

Purpose: Set School-wide Academic Goals and identify strategies for achieving them

The B Team

Purpose: Set School-wide Behavior Goals and identify strategies for achieving them

Grade Level/Content Area Teams

Purpose: Work

collaboratively to examine

instruction and ultimately meet

all students’ needs.

Student Success Teams

Purpose: Assist teams through the

problem solving

process

Inspection

Before take-off let’s do one last inspection and brainstorm approaches.

Space Walk

How Do We Connect

All That We Do?

Connect the System• Using the terms given to your

group, create a graphic that represents the connections that can be made to a systems approach to Response to Intervention

• You may add additional “components” if you need to.

• You may replicate slips of paper.

• You should try to use as many of these terms as possible.

SYSTEMS

PRACTICESDATA

Systems: supports needed to ensure accurate, durable implementation of practices

Practices: strategies &

interventions that are

evidence-based

OUTCOMES

Outcomes: academic and behavior targets identified by school

Data: Information

used to make accurate and appropriate

decisions

Integrated Elements of

RtI:ARtI:B

Adapted from a slide by George Sugai and Rob Horner PBIS

PLC Questions

• What do we want our students to know? (Outcomes)

• How will we know they are learning it? (Data)

• How will we respond if students don’t learn? (Systems and Practices)

• How will we respond if they already know it? (Systems and Practices)

• How do we effectively teach what we want them to know? (Systems and Practices)

What do we want students to learn?

How will we effectively teach it?

The Teaching and Learning Cycle

Reflect

• What conditions are supporting or hindering effective universal instruction for all students? (Think both academics and behavior)

SYSTEMS

PRACTICESDATA

Systems: supports needed to ensure accurate, durable implementation of practices

Practices: strategies &

interventions that are

evidence-based

OUTCOMES

Outcomes: academic and behavior targets identified by school

Data: Information

used to make accurate and appropriate

decisions

Integrated Elements of

RtI:ARtI:B

Adapted from a slide by George Sugai and Rob Horner PBIS

How will we know they have learned it?

Assessments • Screening –

– Quick efficient measures of overall ability and critical skills known to be strong indicators that predict student performance

• Progress monitoring –– Also brief, given

periodically to determine whether students are making adequate progress

Assessments continued…

• Diagnostic –

– Provide in depth, reliable assessment of targeted skills

• Outcome –

– Given at the end of the school year used for school, district, and state reporting purposes

Reflect• What systems are in place

to assess and use data to inform our decisions?

SYSTEMS

PRACTICESDATA

Systems: supports needed to ensure accurate, durable implementation of practices

Practices: strategies &

interventions that are

evidence-based

OUTCOMES

Outcomes: academic and behavior targets identified by school

Data: Information

used to make accurate and appropriate

decisions

Integrated Elements of

RtI:ARtI:B

Adapted from a slide by George Sugai and Rob Horner PBIS

What do we do if they don’t know it?

What do we do if they already know it?

Intervention is…

the systematic and explicit instruction provided to accelerate growth in an area of identified academic and/or behavioral need.

Intervention is not…

a person

a place

a modification

an accommodation

progress monitoring

an assessment

Intervention is

• Focused on a specific area of concern

• Provides direct explicit instruction in a timely manner related to the area of concern

• Can be adjusted by frequency, duration and intensity

How Do We Implement the Problem Solving Process?

What is the Problem Solving Process?

• Systematic

• Data-driven

• Collaborative

• Approach for supporting all students.

Identification

Prevention

How do we effectively implement the Problem Solving Process?

• Defined Protocol and Process

• Solution focused

• Used with the grade level/content area teams and Student Success Teams

• Fluid

Kranz at his console on May 30, 1965, in the Mission Operations Control Room, Mission Control Center, Houston

Directly Measure the behavior/skillAnalyze and validate the problemIdentify variablesDetermine Root Cause

Target the area of concernDetermine intensity, frequency and duration

Implement the plan as intendedProgress monitorModify as necessary

Evaluate the plan and the student’s responseEnd the plan, create a new one or adjust intensity, frequency, duration

What is the purpose of SST??Assist teams through the problem solving process by collaboratively creating and implementing targeted and intense interventions, progress monitoring and the evaluating the effectiveness and fidelity of the plan

Progress Monitoring

• Essential to determine effectiveness of instructional programs and interventions

• Data is used to determine movement of students within the tiers

• Used to make decisions during problem solving process

• Varies depending on the level of intensity

Progress Monitoring at the Tiers• Tier I- provided to all students

using on going universal screeners and assessments aligned with instruction

• Tier II and Tier III- more strategic and targeted – Focus on current levels of

performance – Tools should be flexible,

efficient, accessible, and informative

Progress Monitoring Tools Available…

Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM)

– Standard direction, materials, scoring rules, and is a timed assessment

– Examples included MBSP (Math Basic Skills), DIBELS, Jim Wright, probes from Aimsweb, etc.

Designated Consultant

• Informs and supports the teacher

• Communicates regularly with the teacher

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., prime crew commander of Apollo 14, monitors communications between the Apollo 13 spacecraft and the Mission Control Center.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000363.html

Reflect

• What have you found effective and what challenges are you facing?

Team Time

• Work with your team/colleagues to review your action plan based on the RtI Indicators.

• How will you prioritize your work? • Please be prepared to share:

– What have you gotten today that you will share back at your school?

– What are you committing to do when you return to your building?

A Safe Landing…

Objectives

• What is the RtI framework and how do we make it simple?

• How do we connect all that we do in the RtI Framework?

• How do we effectively implement the Problem Solving Process?

• What are our next steps?

Big Question

• RtI: How do we make connections, make it simple, and make it work?

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Amy Galiciaagalicia

Evelyn Jacobi ejacobi

Jenn Sheldon jsheldon

Tom Tonoli thtonoli

Space Walk

Orbit Activity

When you think like about successful systems of implementation of an intervention or enrichment block, what would contribute to its success?