RTI Action Network Blog

The Teacher Leaders We Need

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:40:46 +0000

Every school has them. They are those staff members that all other staff members in a school look up to because of their teaching skill, knowledge, and experience. They are the teachers in a school...

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Back In The Saddle Again

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:31:32 +0000

We are back in the saddle again! This year we will be looking at more interventions for students in different areas. We are looking to improve some of our math scores and looking to make...

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RTI and Special Education

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:21:53 +0000

During my earlier blogs, I discussed how my school, Ocean View, reorganized around a data-driven decision-making model (DDDM) and used tiered intervention (RTI) to dramatically increase student...

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The "Hard" and the "Soft" of RtI Implementation

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:19:11 +0000

During a recent training in our school district, a presenter spoke to the "soft" and "hard" skills needed to implement change in a school. Using my own loose definitions of...

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Connecting What We Know About Professional Development to RTI

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:14:40 +0000

When my school started the implementation of RTI, the first thing we did to address staff needs was an environmental scan to assess our readiness for RTI implementation. As part of that scan we...

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Response to Intervention and Job-Embedded Professional Development

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:06:42 +0000

Within the framework of a Delaware Response to Intervention (RTI) initiative, which mandated implementation of RTI in Delaware's elementary schools in reading during the 2008-2009 school years,...

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The Next Frontier: Rolling Out RTI Curriculum in Higher Education

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:56:01 +0000

During the past 5-10 years, many of us have worked in K-12 schools, districts, and State Departments of Education assisting in the development and implementation of educational delivery systems that...

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RTI: Professional Development and Pre-Service Teacher Preparation

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:33:14 +0000

Response to Intervention (RTI) planning and implementation will play a major role in school reform. As Bender and Shores (2007) state, "In short, this is not merely another initiative; this move...

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Tiered Intervention Really Increases Reading Achievement

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:21:20 +0000

As Ocean View began its journey to the Blue Ribbon, we were faced with almost half of our third graders scoring non-proficient on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Reading Test. We shifted our...

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RTI and Math Instruction at Ocean View

info@rtinetwork.org (RTI Action Network) — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:59:27 +0000

Math was the first subject in which Ocean View began to really, really USE our data to guide student interventions. We began by administering common formative assessments each month to identify...

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