RTI CONFERENCE

Collective Responsibility

• "It does not matter which teacher your child has at your school; if your child needs extra time and support to learn at high levels, we guarantee he or she will receive it"
• All students can learn at high levels, we as educators accept responsibility to ensure high levels of learning for every child
• "The Heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works

IMPORTANCE OF NORMS

• Accountability for collective responsibility
• Acknowledgement that our time is precious and so is our work
• Suggestions: Start on time, end on time; Be here (cells, emails, etc)
• We will not use "I think" or "I like" but base ideas on research and best practice
• Focus on what we can do
• Leave each meeting clear on action steps

Creating Essential Standards

• Prioritization of common core - take ownership over the "heart" or promise standards
• Criteria to select: Endurance, Leverage, Preparation
• Select and unwrap essential student learning outcomes and develop a unit assessment plan

Summative vs. Formative

• Test: to judge, evaluate
• Assess: to sit beside
• Summative - put in the gradebook, file away and making a judgement about student effectiveness
• Formative - tells us how to keep working, teachers and students. Its a process to gather evidence for improving learning

Common Formative Assessment

• One student, one standard
• Curriculum, instruction and/or assessment modifications must be made
• Promotes equity and team capacity to work at higher levels
• Definition: the intention of collaboratively examining together
• Inform and improve the practice o individual teachers and teams of teachers
• The heart of collaboration!

Student Involvement

• "A key premise is that for students to be able to improve, they must have the capacity to monitor the quality of their work during actual production"
• Know what high quality work looks like
• Be able to compare to their work to the standard
• Able to make work better - feedback from teachers, peers

F.I.T.

• Determined by common formative assessment

RTI Triangle

• Teacher is responsible for Tier 1 - all students MUST have access to, best teaching first time
• Tier 2- Skill - all students MUST have access to - if they need, they get help
• Intervention Team takes lead on will Tier 2 and Tier 3
• Site Intervention Team example