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RTI/MTSS 'Quality Audit' for School Leaders
Here are handouts and resources from Jim Wright's workshop,RTI/MTSS for Academics: Audit Your School, Update Your Plan :
- PowerPoint: MTSS for Academics: Optimize Supports for At-Risk Learners: SECONDARY (23 Jan 2023)
- PowerPoint: MTSS for Academics: Optimize Supports for At-Risk Learners: ELEMENTARY (24 Jan 2023)
- *** Classroom Support Plan Writer. This free web-based app allows educators to create
- and print customized classroom intervention plans for individuals and groups!***
- District-Level MTSS Academic-Support Plan: A Model (Google Doc). This model MTSS-Academic plan can be used as a template to create or update your building or district MTSS plan (Available through 25 Oct 2019).
- RTI/MTSS for Academics: Next-Steps Planner. Shareable Google Docs. This form allows schools to create a detailed RTI/MTSS roll-out plan for up to 5 objectives.
Grade | Student Problem | Intervention | Progress-Monitoring |
K | Andrew: Letter Names: Skill Deficit |
Letter Names: Flashcards with 3-Second Delay |
Letter Names Fluency Probes (CBM): easyCBM Letter Name Probe Generator: www.interventioncentral.org
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4 | Lyla: Reading: Fluency Deficit |
Reading Fluency: Passage Preview in Stages | Passage Reading Fluency Probes (CBM): easyCBM Materials are free: Teacher log-in required |
5 |
Jared: Comprehension: |
Reading Comprehension: Read Actively |
Michigan’s Mission: Literacy Website: Examples of Retell Rubrics:
Story/Narrative Retell Rubric: Teachers College: http://usd450.net/files/A-Z_retell_rubric.pdf
Sample Retell Rubrics: Saddlespace: https://www.saddlespace.org/lunowa/trabucolunowandrea/cms_file/show/67252294.pdf?t=1496956058 |
RTI: The Model
- New York State Education Department Guidance Document on RTI. 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. This site provides resources and guidance for NYS schools on implementation of RTI.
- NYSED 2008 RTI Guidance Memo. This memo presents the main points of the Regents Policy Framework on RTI for schools.
- NYSED Part 100 Regulations on RTI. This subsection of Part 100.2 (NYSED regulations) describes expectations for RTI for all schools.
- RTI Readiness Checklist. This checklist from the NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center allows schools to self-administer a quick 'RTI Readiness Check'.
Tier 1: Universal Instruction & Classroom Intervention
- Numbered Heads Together: Class-wide cooperative Learning Activity
- Academic Interventions Table. View a table of academic interventions suitable for use in classrooms.
- Behavior Report Card Maker. This app allows the teacher to format and print off customized daily behavior report cards for classroom data collection.
- Definitions: Core Instruction, Academic Interventions, Accommodations, Modifications
- Accommodations Finder. Use this free online app to create 'accommodation' plans for individual students or an entire class.
Tier 2: Supplemental Intervention: Standard -Treatment Protocol
- Building & District RTI Resource Inventory Form. [RTF/MS Word format]
- Tier 2: Small-Group Intervention Plan (Interactive). This PDF document allows the user to enter a multi-week Tier 2 intervention plan for a small group of up to 7 students. Check out this example of the form filled out for a group based repeated-reading intervention.
- Tier 2/3 Form: Intervention Programs at a Glance Organizer [RTF/MS Word format]
- Screening for Reading Problems in Grades 1 Through 3: An Overview of Select Measures. This article from the RTI Network includes a listing of commercially available diagnostic reading assessments.
- Tier 2/3 Intervention Website: What Works Clearinghouse. 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. 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. 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 Protocol
- Tier 3: RTI Team Roles
- Tier 3: RTI Team Case Manager Pre-Meeting Form
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting introductory Script
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting 'Facilitator's Guide'
- Tier 3: RTI Team Meeting Forms: Interactive.
- Tier 3: RTI Team 'Quality Indicators' Checklist
Schoolwide Screeners
- Student Intervention: Progress-Monitoring Sheet [in RTF/MS Word format]. This sheet allows electronic entry of student monitoring data.
- Matrix: Local RTI/MTSS Screening Data for Secondary Schools. Check out this Google Docs organizer for converting local school information (grades, attendance, behavior) into proactive Tier 2/3 screening data.
ACADEMIC INTERVENTION IDEAS |
General Academic Skills |
Acquisition of Academic Item-Set
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Reading: Phonics/Alphabetics |
Reading: Sight-Word Vocabulary |
Sight-Word Vocabulary. The student has rapid recognition of sight-words.
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Reading Fluency |
Fluency. The student reads with adequate fluency to comprehend the text.
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Reading Comprehension |
Self-Monitoring:The student monitors understanding of the text while reading.
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Main Idea:The student locates the main idea of a paragraph or passage in informational text.
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Linking Ideas:The student makes connections between ideas in the text.
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Spelling |
Spelling Acquisition. The student is able to spell a grade-appropriate range of words correctly.
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Writing |
Sentence Complexity. The student writes sentences of appropriate variety and complexity for the subject and/or grade level.
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Math |
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Self-Management |
Self-Management in Academic Skills. The student uses appropriate skills and strategies to manage their own learning.
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What Works Clearinghose 'Practice Guides'. The What Works Clearinghouse is sponsored by the US Department of Education. One of the free resources that the site offers are 'practice guides': summaries of research into effective instruction that any teacher can read and apply to the classroom. Here are a range of practice guides to address reading, writing, and mathematics: |
Reading/Writing |
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Mathematics |
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Florida Center for Reading Research. This website is a product of a research center at Florida State University.The site includes free lesson plans for reading across grades K-5. (Many of the grade 4-5 resources are appropriate for secondary students with reading delays.) |
Evidence-Based Intervention Network. This site is co-sponsored by school psychology programs at East Carolina University and University of Missouri.It contains research-based ideas for reading, math, and behavior interventions. |