Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 14, 2009
Reading seems to be a primary focus for districts when first starting their Response to Intervention implementation. There are many resources available on interventions for reading, but what about math?
Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 12, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education has published a PowerPoint presentation entitled “Implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) Using Title I, Title III, and CEIS Funds – Key Issues for Decision-makers.”
Posted by Beth DuBose on Dec 16, 2008
The National Center on Learning Disabilities developed a brief on what parents should expect with the Response to Intervention process and provides tips for parents. They provide information to parents on what RTI is and what to expect when attending a RTI meeting or receiving information from the school on RTI.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Dec 12, 2008
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has released guidance to provide states with information regarding the appropriate use of funds provided under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by local education agencies to develop and implement coordinated early intervening services (CEIS) for students who are not currently identified as needing special education.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Dec 10, 2008
The National Center on Response to Intervention, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office and Special Education Programs and managed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, provides technical assistance (TA) support to each of the 50 states and 9 territories across the country. In collaboration with state RTI leadership teams and others, the Center has confirmed that 8 states will receive intensive TA supports that will help them to plan, implement and evaluate their RTI initiatives. The states receiving intensive TA are Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Dec 02, 2008
There are many researchers that feel that not only is the school curriculum important to a child’s development, but also the school environment. They feel schools should be a safe place where students feel comfortable expressing themselves and developing relationships. Some schools are moving away from the traditional model of individual classrooms to project based learning where students work in groups in creative ways to solve hard problems.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Nov 13, 2008
After a discussion in our webinar yesterday, I wanted to gather some information about Tiered instruction and how interventions are not supposed to replace the core instruction, but to supplement it. Atlas Initiative has a video on YouTube describing a 3 tiered model of intervention, and what is typically found at each of those three levels. In their explanation, they enforce that if a child is getting small group instruction in Tier 2, they should still be getting the core instruction from Tier 1 as well. Their example shows the student receiving 90 minutes of core reading instruction in Tier 1 with an additional 30 minute small group intervention for Tier 2.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Nov 10, 2008
Twice a year, Teacher Magazine publishes the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook. This sourcebook provides educators with insights and models for effective teaching. The Fall 2008 issue is titled Different Students, Different Approaches: The power of differentiated instruction. With Response to Intervention becoming a strong educational model across the nation, differentiated instruction and how to provide differentiated instruction is more crucial to teachers and schools.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Nov 04, 2008
The RTI Action Network has posted a video to YouTube about implementing an RTI model at the secondary level. The video is an interview with Jay Engeln, a high school principal implementing RTI at his school. Mr. Engeln goes though the challenges that high schools will face when trying to implement RTI. He sees the biggest challenge as getting everyone past the idea that they are trying to implement an elementary program at the high school level.
Posted by Beth DuBose on Oct 23, 2008
The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements, a development of the Peabody School of Vanderbilt University, has created a video series on Response to Intervention. Their latest installment, RTI: Considerations for School Leaders, talks about what principals need to consider when creating and implementing their RTI process. In this module, a short, illustrated video is used together with a multi-page, step-by-step presentation to highlight the numerous components involved in an effective, school-wide RTI adoption.