Pyramid of Interventions

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Pyramid of Interventions
Tier 4 Specially Designed Instruction
Special Education

• Tier 3 Intensive
• Interventions - SST
• Individualized refine and intensify
• More indepth assessment
• data analysis
• Strategies interventions
• tailored to specific needs
• Consideration for referral to special education
  and/other programs only when data indicates a
  need

• Tier 2 Targeted Interventions
• Tier 1 more TLC
• Standard intervention protocols
• Problem solving process data analysis
• Tailored to student needs
• Enhanced opportunities for extended learning
• Targeted small groups and selected individuals
• Includes more frequent progress monitoring
• Planned to address developmental domains
  (academic, communication/language,
  social/emotional, etc.)

80 of students are likely to successfully
respond to Tier 1 2

• Tier 1 Performance Based Instruction for ALL
  students
• Standards based curriculum
• Research-based practices and strategies
• Differentiated instruction
• Effective classroom management
• Guided by progress monitoring and balanced
  assessment
• Planned to address developmental domains
  (academic, communication/language,
  social/emotional, etc.)

2
Interventions
-individual behavior plan -classroom
behavior management plan -school wide
discipline
-decrease group size -increase dosage or amount
of interventions -use flexible groups
Individualized Core Team
Smaller Group School Intervention Teams
Whole Group Classroom Teacher
3

• So, where do we begin??

Teachers will establish their bottom 5. How do
teachers do this?
4
In identifying the lowest achieving 5 (or so)

• Identify factors related to student achievement
• ELL / Spec Ed / previous SST, etc.
• Attendance
• Prior retention
• Discipline / Behavior
• Cultural differences
• Social/emotional/developmental issues
• Current academic performance
• Other test scores
• NOTE some classes will have less and some more
  than 5.

5
Targeted Students

• Tier 1 Identify lowest 5 or so Start a folder
  or portfolio to collect assessment and work
  samples on these students (date all information)
• Tier 2 Provide additional focus and
  opportunities for identified weak areas .
• Tier 3 More intensive, individualized problem
  solving model with leadership personnel 4 data
  points. (Actually.. Its 5 including baseline)

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What do teachers need for Tier 2?

• -If teachers want to move a student to Tier 2,
  they need to fill out
• a hard copy student packet
• THE rti document electronically

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When you meet for the Tier 3 Intervention Team

• More intensive, individualized problem solving
  model for a minimum of 6 weeks with 5 repeated
  assessments
• Team members consist of
• Teacher(s)
• Tier 3 Facilitator
• Parent
• Psychologist
• Administrator
• Special Education Representative

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Resources For Intervention Teams

• Cobbk12.org to access RTI Handbook with
• links to forms for Tier 2 Tier 3
• I2I, Identification to Intervention
• (PICASSO, Instructional Tab, Resources, Level,
  Identifying Student Needs, I2I)
• I2I Behavior
• www.interventioncentral.com

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Interventions are NOT

• Preferential seating
• Shortened assignments
• Parent contacts
• Classroom observations
• Suspension
• Doing more of the same assignments
• Retention
• Screening