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RTI -- Making It Work at the Middle Grades Andria Brimhall, Camden Co. Schools and Sheryl Abel, St. Marys Middle

RTI development 2006-2007 -- Core Team 2008-2009 - implementation of behavioral POI began at

Tier 1 Differentiationn -- flexible grouping Teacher-student conferences Benchmark assessments fluency checks STAR reading and Math weekly remediation day -- modified 4 block -- 100 minute block -- connections is 100 minute block(50 min.each) teachers take part of the planning using the test results to remediate Title I school-wide Instructional Extension

Tier 2 Diagnostic/prescriptive skills (AIMSweb for weekly progress monitoring) CRCT camps -- used NOVA net Instructional Extension

Tier 3 Child Study Team frequent individual interventions(academic and counseling)

Tier 4 Gifted and SpEd

High Expectations for ALL students Tier 1 -- powerful instruction and a strong foundation guided by standards based classrooms Tier 2 -- effective, data driven, progress monitored

Successful RTI -- used Pearson Benchmark -- collaborative, shared leadership innovative practices data-driven problem solving strategic and cooperative alignment of resources

Tier 2 CRCT scores --- universal screener identify the bottom 16%

Standard Protocol for Tier 2 id. bottom 16% skills classes during connections -- Math skills -- Orchard, SKills Tutor, MAth Facts in a Flash, RenLearn, SRA Number Worlds, textbooks Reading -- SkillsTutor, SRA, Orchard, REnLearn, textbooks

Students monitored **weekly** using AIMSweb --

RTI TEAM - - Principal, Asst. Principal, LF instructional coach, school counselor, school psychologist, graduation specialist, 2 academic teachers, as needed: special education teachers -- Parents aren't invitied to Tier 2 meetings because of discussion of so many students Meetings scheduled every 2 weeks -- in a conference room, last approx. 3 hours, use 3 computers and an LCD projector, 7 notebooks( 6 academic and 1 behavioral) of student documentation sheets -- currently switching over to Pearon Inform Academic Improvement Plan(AIP) AIP -- follows the student from middle school to high school RTI Meeting -- skills teachers recommend students to be reviewed two days prior grad. specialist compiles data for each student being presented -- AIMSweb recommendations based on the data -- return to Tier 1, diagnostic screening to better prescribe interventions, adjust schedules based on learning styles(math in the am if needed), test for motivation using SMALSI(School Motivations and Learning Style Inventory), meet individually with student, Refer to Tier 3( in 3 years they have referred one) lots of screening in the elementary level

Student data 7th grader with 13 absences tier 2 math student was not making progress at 7th grade St. assessed at 6th, 5th, and 4th grade -- found to be in the working proficient on the 4th grade survey

AIMSweb -- used to monitor progress -- made to give once or twice per week -- get progress monitoring report -- done with connections teachers -- each student knows where he/she is and where they need to be to move from the classes -- students can miss both connections -- preface if it with if the student can not read or write, they don't have Connections Skills teachers -- try to keep classes to 15 students or less -- try to put the BEST teachers in there Pearson Inform -- -- Pearson product Pearson Benchmark -- standards checks, summative and formative assessments, questions are done by element not standard

Teachers have Tuesday Collabortive meetings -- each grade level -- esp. after tests

Don't start AIMSweb until about 4 weeks in -- to allow for movement and settling

Post Meeting -- recommendations are typed and sent to skills teacher and RTI team -- schedule changes of students moved down to Tier 1 given to data entry clerk, all students released from skills are monitored and returned to Tier2 if necessary -- begin Tier 3 process if necessary Post Intervention(tier 2) prior to CRCT - -monitored students who to continue to perform marginally returned to skills class for test taking skills review Saturday CRCT camp -- 4hours --- 2 on Math, 2 on L.Arts -- targeted standards that students did the WORST on -- using the data