Response to Intervention RtI

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Response to Intervention (RtI)

• How can we make it work
• in Wisconsin?

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The concept of RtI is quite simple?
?doing RtI well is quite complex.
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Our New Wisconsin Promise
Our shared commitment to raising achievement for
all students and closing the achievement gap that
exists between economically disadvantaged
students, children of color, and their peers.
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• RtI is a process forachieving higher levels of
  academic and behavioral success for all students
  through
• High Quality Instructional Practice
• Continuous Review of Student Progress (multiple
  measures)
• Collaboration

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High Quality Instructional Practice

• High quality instructional practice responds to
  the individual differences within a learning
  community (classroom).

Multiple ways to motivate and challenge students
Multiple ways for students to demonstrate and
teachers to assess student progress
Multiple ways for students to acquire and apply
expected knowledge and skills
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High Quality Instructional Practice

• Inherent to a high quality instructional practice
  for learning isdifferentiated instructionthat
  puts the student at the center of teaching and
  learning, with students needs driving
  instruction, not programs or curricula.

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High Quality Instructional Practice

• High quality instructional practice provides
  appropriate
• intervention/additional servicesfor students who
  need them.

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Continuous Review of Student Progress
Formative
A System of Constant Inquiry
Summative
BALANCED ASSESSMENT
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Collaboration

• Teams of educators with a variety of expertise -
  in partnership with parents and community
  resources -

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Collaboration

• Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership
  with parents and community resources -

Classroom
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Collaboration

• Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership
  with parents and community resources -

Classroom
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Collaboration

• Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership
  with parents and community resources -

Differentiated Instruction within the classroom
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Collaboration
Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership
with parents and community resources -
Differentiated Instruction within the classroom
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Collaboration
Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership
with parents and community resources -
Intervention/Additional Services
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Collaboration
Fluidity based on student needs- in partnership
with parents and community resources-
Intervention/Additional Services
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• RtI is a PK-12 initiative for High Quality
  Instructional Practice
• Continuous Review of Student Progress
• Collaboration
• that has applications for

General Education Special Education Gifted and
Talented Title I English Language Learners Etc.
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Principles for the successful implementation of
RtIin Wisconsin

• RtI is for ALL children and ALL educators.
• RtI must support and provide value to effective
  practices.
• Success for RtI lies within the classroom through
  collaboration.
• RtI applies to both academics and behavior.
• RtI supports and provides value to the use of
  multiple assessments to inform instructional
  practices.
• RtI is something you do and not necessarily
  something you buy.
• RtI emerges from and supports research and
  evidence based practice.

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Making RtI Work in Wisconsin

• Opportunities

• Challenges

How do wemaximize our opportunitiesandminimize
our challenges?