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Hi. I am Jim Wright, the creator of Intervention Central. I present workshops on academic and behavioral interventions, assessment, and implementation of Response to Intervention. I schedule my workshops directly with schools, districts, and organizations.
Browse my workshop descriptions below. Unless otherwise specified, workshops are a full day (5-6 hours) in length. However, I can customize workshops upon request (for example, condensing 2 workshop topics into a single day's training). If you would like more information about a specific training, you can email me from any workshop page for more information. Thanks!
The 'Response to Intervention' (RTI) model has been widely adopted by elementary schools across the nation as a proactive way to respond to students with academic or behavioral concerns. This full-day workshop provides participants with an overview of RTI and an explanation of how this framework can better support students with academic or behavioral challenges.
The RTI Problem-Solving Team is a multi-disciplinary group of educators that create intensive, customized intervention plans for struggling general-education students who have not responded to lesser levels of academic or behavioral support. This full-day workshop provides guidance to schools to set up effective RTI Problem-Solving Teams in elementary and secondary buildings.
To be effective at the middle and high school level, Response to Intervention (RTI) must be tailored to accommodate compartmentalized instruction, highly demanding curriculum expectations, complex schedules--and students who are approaching adulthood and have a significant voice in their own educational program. This full-day workshop presents an RTI problem-solving model specifically designed for the realities of secondary school settings.
Schools often find it challenging to locate effective research-based math intervention ideas feasible for use in classrooms. This full-day workshop presents a series of interventions that elementary, middle, or high school teachers can use to support at-risk students who need targeted interventions in the development of math skills.
Students who struggle academically often require individualized interventions carefully tailored to their areas of academic deficit. This workshop is designed to give teachers, support staff, and administrators the necessary tools to plan and carry out effective academic interventions.
Classroom teachers are the ‘first responders’ who provide intervention assistance to those students who struggle with academic skills. This workshop clarifies questions about the use of RTI interventions in general-education classrooms.
The Response to Intervention model can help schools to improve student performance in mathematics and writing. This workshop reviews the essential elements of the RTI model and extends it to cover mathematics and writing for grades K-8.
When students are chronically defiant or non-compliant in the classroom, they can disrupt instruction and create great stress for classmates and teachers alike. This full-day workshop is designed to give teachers, support staff, and school administrators strategies that they can use immediately to manage challenging student behavior.
In many classrooms, poor student motivation is a central concern. This full-day workshop presents a flexible, problem-solving approach that identifies why a student lacks academic engagement and matches that student to appropriate interventions that will increase motivation to learn.
Logical and consistent decision rules are crucial in evaluating a student’s response to intervention: they help the school district to decide in a timely manner whether a struggling student is a ‘non-responder’ to general education interventions and should be evaluated for possible special education services. This full-day workshop takes special education administrators, school psychologists, and other educators step-by-step through the process of developing consistent decision rules within a district for analyzing RTI data.