On W 28 Oct 2015, Jim Wright met with grade-level teams from Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School Middle School to discuss the role ot teachers as Tier 1 intervention providers. Here are resources from the workshop:
- PPT:The Teacher as Classroom 'First Responder': Strategies to Address Academic & Behavior Problems [1]
- Self-Checklist Behavior Checklist Maker: Application to create any kind of student checklist (e.g., for listening skills) [2]
- Manual for Self-Checklist Behavior Checklist Maker [3]
- MOTIVATION RESOURCE:Mindsets: The Power to Help or Hinder Student Motivation [4]
Sample interventions discussed at the PVC workshop:
- Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [5] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form [6]
- Ask-Read-Tell. [7]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form. [8]
- Learning Contracts [9]
- Version 1: Interactive Learning Contract| [10]Example of a Completed Learning Contract [11]
- Version 2: Interactive Learning Contract [12]|Example of a Completed Learning Contract [13]
- Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference: Description [14]
- Student Independent Work: Planning Tool: Interactive Form [15]
- VIDEO: Academic Survival Skills Checklists [16]
- ONLINE APP: Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker [17]
- HANDOUT: Academic Survival Skills Checklists: 5 Ways to Help Students to Become Effective Self-Managing Learners [18]
RTI Social-Emotional Workshop. On 22-23 April 2015, Jim Wright presented the topic "Schools That Really Care: Expanding RTI to Address Social & Emotional Needs" to K-2 and support staff of Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School in the Croton-Harmon School District. Here are resources from that workshop:
- Checklist: Social-Emotional RTI: Critical Elements [20]
- Identifying the Big Ideas That Guide Effective Behavior Management [21]
Tier 1: Strong Core Instruction
Tier 1: Group Behavior Management. Resources
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms [25]
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word. [26]
- Good Behavior Game [27]
- Teacher-Student Learning Game [28]
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management [29]
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom [30]
Tier 1: Individual Behavior Plans
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions [32]
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [33]
Online Tools for Behavior Management & Student Self-Management
- Jackpot Reward Finder [34]
- Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker [17]
- Behavior Report Card Maker [35]
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker [36]
Websites to review Tier 2/3 programming:
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: What Works Clearinghouse [37]. This website reviews core instruction and intervention programs in reading & mathematics, as well as other academic areas. The site reviews existing studies and draws conclusions about whether specific intervention programs show evidence of effectiveness.
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: Best Evidence Encyclopedia [38]. This site provides reviews of evidence-based math and reading programs. The website is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) .
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: National Center on Intensive Intervention Academic Intervention Chart. [39] Sponsored by the National Center on Intensive Intervention, this page provides ratings to intervention programs in math, reading, and writing. Users can sort their search by subject and grade level.
- National Center on Intensive Intervention Behavioral Intervention Tools Chart. [40] Sponsored by the National Center on Intensive Intervention, this page provides ratings for behavior intervention programs. Users can streamline their search by subject and grade level (elementary or middle school).
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In January 2015, Jim Wright presented a series of half-day workshops for teachers at CET/Croton-Harmon Schools on the role of the instructor as the classroom academic intervention 'first responder'. Here are resources from that workshop:
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions [32]
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [33] (Interactive Form)
These sample intervention ideas were discussed:
- Incremental Rehearsal [42]: Letter Identification
- Letter-Cube Blending: [43] Phonics/Albhabetics
- Reading Racetrack [44]: Sight Words. Reading Racetrack Interactive Form [45]
- Repeated Reading: Group. [46]This version of repeated reading is delivered to a group of 3 students.
- Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [5] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form [6]
- Ask-Read-Tell. [7]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form. [8]
- Counting Board Game: [47] Number Sense
- Cover-Copy-Compare for Math Facts & Spelling: Description [48]
- Cover-Copy-Compare Interactive Worksheet: Spelling & Sight Words; Horizontal Math Facts [49]
- Cover-Copy-Compare Interactive Worksheet: Vertical Math Facts [50]
These data-collection ideas were presented:
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CBM: Oral Reading Fluency
BM: Maze Passages (Comprehension)
CBM: Math Computation
CBM: Written Expression
On 13-14 August 2014, Jim Wright presented an overview of the Response to Intervention model for staff from the Croton-Harmon (NY) School District. Here are resources shared at that workshop:
Tier 1 Instruction: Resources
- INSTRUCTION: Checklist: Elements of Direct Instruction [75]
- BEHAVIOR: Classroom Management: Intervention Pathways [76]
Tier 1 (Classroom) Intervention: Resources
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [77] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.
- How To: Improve Academic Interventions: 7 Big Ideas [78]
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [77] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.
Classroom Data Collection
- Data Collection: How To...Match a Progress-Monitoring Tool to Every Classroom Problem [51]
- How To: Struture Data Collection for Individual Students: Baseline, Goal, Progress-Monitoring [71]
- Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [72] [in RTF/MS Word format]. This sheet allows electronic entry of student monitoring data.
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| Video: [80] How to Find & Fix Problems With Academic Survival Skills [81] [82] |
Handout: How To: Use Checklists to Measure Academic Survival Skills [83] | Online Tool: Academic Survival Skills Checklist [17] |
Tier 2: Supplemental Interventions: Resources
- Building & District RTI Resource Inventory Form. [ [84]RTF/MS Word format]
[84] - Tier 2: Data Analysis Team Process Script (Kovaleski & Pederson, 2008): [85][RTF/MS Word format]
- Tier 2/3 Form: Intervention Programs at a Glance Organizer [86] [RTF/MS Word format]
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: What Works Clearinghouse [37]. This website reviews core instruction and intervention programs in reading & mathematics, as well as other academic areas. The site reviews existing studies and draws conclusions about whether specific intervention programs show evidence of effectiveness.
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: Best Evidence Encyclopedia [38]. This site provides reviews of evidence-based math and reading programs. The website is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) .
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: National Center on Intensive Intervention Academic Intervention Chart. [39] Sponsored by the National Center on Intensive Intervention, this page provides ratings to intervention programs in math, reading, and writing. Users can sort their search by subject and grade level.
Tier 3: Intensive Intervention: Problem-Solving Team Forms
- Tier 3: RTI Team Roles [87]
- Tier 3: RTI Team Case Manager Pre-Meeting Form [88]
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting introductory Script [89]
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting 'Companion Guide' [90]
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting Forms: Elementary [91]
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting Minutes Forms: Secondary [92]
- Tier 3: RTI Team 'Quality Indicators' Checklist [93]
Intervention Integrity
- Intervention Integrity: Explanation & Forms [94]
- Intervention Integrity: Intervention Script Builder [95]
- Intervention Integrity: Intervention Contact Log [96]
RTI: The Model
- New York State Education Department Guidance Document on RTI. [97] Released in October 2010, this NYSED guidance document provides a guide to schools at any grade level in how to structure their RTI model and services.
- NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center [98]. This site provides resources and guidance for NYS schools on implementation of RTI.
- NYSED 2008 RTI Guidance Memo. [99] This memo presents the main points of the Regents Policy Framework on RTI for schools.
- NYSED Part 100 Regulations on RTI. [100] This subsection of Part 100.2 (NYSED regulations) describes expectations for RTI for all schools.
- RTI Readiness Checklist. [101] This checklist from the NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center allows schools to self-administer a quick 'RTI Readiness Check'
Data Collection
Here are links to free online tools to help teachers to measure and collect data on student behaviors:
On Wednesday, 26 March 2014, Jim Wright presented on the topics of RTI and student intervention for staff from Van Cortlandt Middle School/Croton-Harmon School District. Here are resources shared & discussed at the workshop:
- PPT: RTI & Middle Schools: Teacher Tools to Help Struggling Learners. [102]
- Workshop Handout [103]
- Six Reasons Why Students are Unmotivated (and What to Do). [104] Review the six most common reasons for poor motivation and how teachers can increase student engagement.