Basic Introduction to RtI

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Basic Introduction to RtI

• Sharlene Montgomery

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What is RtI

• Response to Intervention (RtI) is the practice
  of providing
• high-quality instruction/intervention matched to
  student needs
• 2) using learning rate over time and level of
  performance to
• 3) make important educational decisions
  (Batsche, et al., 2005).

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What does that mean?

• This means using
• differentiated instructional strategies for all
  learners
• providing all learners with scientific,
  research-based interventions
• continuously measuring student performance using
  scientifically research-based progress monitoring
  instruments for all learners
• making educational decisions based on a students
  response to interventions

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RtI Three Tier Model
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Tier 1

• Students that are positively responding to the
  core curriculum
• Students have a full course load

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Tier 3

• Special Ed Students that need intensive
  interventions for success
• Focus on very few courses

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Tier 2

• Gifford Street Students
• These students are not eligible for SpEd, but
  they need supplemental instruction because they
  had a poor response to the core curriculum
• Focus only on core courses
• Interventions put in place in the hopes that the
  students will return to Tier 1

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Where do we begin?

• An RtI team (Yeah, Jerry, another committee!)
  should set the foundation
• What should the academic focus be on?
• What specific research-based strategies and
  instructional methods will be used?
• What specific research-based assessment tools
  will be used?
• SIP has begun to address these issues on an
  informal basis. It is up to the administration
  if RtI will become a SIP responsibility or that
  of another committee.

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How does that affect the teachers?

• Interventions
• When our instruction does not work for a student
  we will have to employ additional interventions,
  which should be documented.

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How does that affect the teachers?

• Assessment
• We will have to track student achievement in
  response to our interventions.

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Why should we know this?

• RtI is included in federal and state LAWS

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Federal Law

• IDEIA 2004 includes language that creates
  guidelines for identifying SpEd students
• but we must remember that RtI is NOT a SpEd
  programit is for the gen. pop.

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State Law

• Illinois Administrative Code Section 226. 130,
  subsection (b) states
• each district shall, no later than the
  beginning 2010-2011 school year, implement the
  use of a process that determines how the child
  responds to scientific, research-based
  interventions as part of the evaluation
  procedure

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• RtI is that process!
• Learn it now instead of letting it sneak up on
  you in 2010!

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Websites

• The RTI Action Network
• Illinois State Board of Education RtI
• AIMSWeb 

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Websites

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
  (DIBELS)
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• RtI booklet from NASDSE  

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Websites

• RtI general information from NASDSE National
  Center on Student Progress Monitoring
• Intervention Central
• Illinois School Psychologists Association
• National Research Center on Learning Disabilities

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Websites

• Illinois PBIS Network
• National Technical Assistance Center on PBIS