Today we met to discuss how our corporation would continue our implementation of RtI (Response to Intervention). Team of teachers, counselors and administrators met to look at what we were already doing and how to formalize the process and make others aware of the process.
RTI is:
· Response to Intervention is a framework for prevention, advancement, and early intervention, which involves determining whether ALL students are learning, and progressing academically and behaviorally.
· Intended to help as many students as possible meet proficiency standards.
· An opportunity to integrate all school initiatives in our buildings including school improvement, general education, Title I, special education, high ability students and family partnerships.
· Focuses the entire instructional system on the success of ALL learners.
· NOT waiting for the child to fail before attempting more intensive instructional interventions.
RTI is not:
· A stand-alone special education initiative.
· A means for just getting more students into special education.
· A method for just increasing or decreasing special education numbers.
· Focused primarily on disability determination and documented through a checklist.
· Just limited to beginning reading (K-2nd grade) since it should involve multiple grade levels and content areas (reading, math, behavior).
Many of Whitko’s teachers and administrators have logged many hours traveling to sites and receiving training, hosting presenters and trainers to train staff who have been released from the classroom for the day, spent hours upon hours researching individually or as a team possible interventions to use, networked extensively with other school teams to get this RtI thing figured out.
As a result of today’s facilitated workshop we are even going to be better at what we do best which is serving the educational needs of every child.
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