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Response to Intervention (RTI)

Training Sessions

RTI Institutes

RTI Institutes are statewide training sessions open to all school divisions.

2012 Institutes

• Agenda, September 25-26 (PDF)
• Presentations

2009 Institutes

• Agenda, December 1-2, 2009 (PDF)
• Agenda, July 16-17, 2009 (PDF)
• Agenda, July 9-10, 2009 (PDF)
• Presentations

2007 & 2008 Institutes

• Agenda, April 1-2, 2008 (PDF)
• Agenda, December 4-5, 2007 (PDF)
• Agenda, November 15-16, 2007 (PDF)
• Presentations

 

RTI Cohort/Pilot Training

The following training sessions provide technical assistance and professional development to the 21 RTI Cohort School Divisions and the remaining RTI Pilot School Divisions.

Listening to the Audio Recorded Sessions

Click on any audio file to listen to the session; the player application will automatically slide open on the bottom left side of this page. PLAYLIST: At the top of the player, click on the tab labeled "playlist". The tab will slide up to open, showing a list that links to all audio sessions on this page. Use the controls on the player to help you move through the list by clicking the left arrow to go back a session, the center to play or pause, and the right arrow to go forward a session; you can also click on the name of a session to play that session.

2013 Sessions

April 9-10, 2013
Questions and Solutions: The Problem-Solving Process and Interventions for a Continuum of Services

• Agenda (PDF)
• Division Coordinators – Introduction to Resource Mapping & Data Dashboard (PDF)
• Data Dashboard Criteria Template (PDF)
• Blank Resource Map (PDF)
• Know They Impact (PDF)
• Share-out Take-Away Notes Template (PDF)
• Revised Unit Organizer Handout (PPT)
• Using a Balanced Literary Approach to Jump-Start Student Achievement (PDF)
• Got Problem Behavior? (PDF)
• Workbook for Classroom Systems Training (PDF)
• Classroom System Window Pane (PDF)
• SMART Goals Integrated Systems (PDF)
• Group Notetaker for Classroom Management (PDF)
• Recommendations for Intervention in Mathematics (RTI) (PDF)
• Revised Unit Organizer Handout (PDF)

 

April 9, 2013
Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1 (PDF)	Session 1
Session 2 (PDF)	Session 2
Session 3 (PDF)	Session 3
Session 4 (PDF)	Session 4

 

April 10, 2013
Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 5 (PDF)	Session 5
Session 6 Breakout 1 (PDF)	Session 6 Breakout 1
Session 7 Breaktout 2 (PDF)	Session 7 Breaktout 2
Session 8 Breakout 1 (PDF)	Session 8 Breakout 1
Session 9 Breaktout 2 (PDF)	Session 9 Breaktout 2

February 11-12, 2013
Under the VTSS Umbrella: Process Integration and School Schedules

• Agenda (PDF)
• Under the VTSS Umbrella: Process Integration Workshop (PDF)
• Team Planning Sheet (PDF)
• Team Data Reflection Sheet (PDF)
• Clarification of Data Meeting (PDF)
• Tiered Intervention Data Summary (PDF)
• Data Management Documentation (PDF)
• Elementary Individual Student Data Meeting Results (PDF)
• The Big Ideas of the Individual Student Data Meeting (PDF)
• Individual Intervention Plan Template (PDF)
• VTSS Flowchart (PDF)
• Elementary School
  • Elementary School Scheduling: Enhancing Instruction for Student Achievement (PDF)
  • Antietam Master Schedule (PDF)
  • Baldwin Master Schedule (PDF)
  • Falmouth Elementary School Master Schedule (PDF)
  • Henry Clay Master Schedule (PDF)
  • Viola Master Schedule (PDF)
• Middle School
  • Designing Quality Middle School Master Schedules (PDF)
  • 6-Period Master Schedule (PDF)
  • School-wide Intervention and Enrichment – Beginning of the Day (PDF)
• High School
• Trends and Issues in High School Scheduling (PDF)
• Sample Schedule 1 (PDF)
• Sample Schedule 2 (PDF)
  

February 11, 2013
Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1 (PDF)	Session 1
Session 2 (PDF)	Session 2
Session 3 (PDF)	Session 3

February 12, 2013
Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1 (PDF)	Session 1
Session 2 (PDF)	Session 2
Session 3 (PDF)	Session 3

2012 Sessions

October 23-24, 2012
Explicit Instruction: THE Key to Increasing Academic Engaged Time

• Agenda (PDF)
• Do Now: Review of Prior Knowledge from Evaluation Training (Word)
• Defining Your Process for VTSS (PDF)
• Explicit Instruction Part 1 (PDF)
• Explicit Instruction Part 2 (PDF)
• Active Participation Reference Sheet (PDF)
• Vocabulary Lesson Observation Form (PDF)
• Observation: Delivery of Instruction (PDF)
• Observation of Delivery Skills Description (PDF)
• Skill Strategy Lesson Observation (PDF)
• Structure of Explicit Lesson Chart (PDF)
• RTI Flow Chart (PDF)

October 23, 2012
Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1 (PDF)	Session 1
Session 2 (PDF)	Session 2
Session 3 (PDF)	Session 3
Session 4 (PDF)	Session 4

October 24, 2012
Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1 (PDF)	Session 1
Session 2 (PDF)	Session 2
Session 3 (PDF)	Session 3
Session 4 (PDF)	Session 4

July 12-13
Process Evaluation: Is it working?

• Agenda (PDF)
• Generations Across the Workplace: Building Trust & Communication (PDF)
• VA Tiered System of Supports Implementation Guide and Benchmarks - Installation and Sustainable Implementation (PDF)
• RtI Process and Evaluation (PDF)
• Validity and Accountability: Planning Ahead (PDF)
• VDOE's Virginia Tiered System of Supports/Response to Intervention (PDF)

Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1, Part A (PDF)	Session 1, Part A
Session 1, Part B (PDF)	Session 1, Part B
Session 1, Part C (PDF)	Session 1, Part C
Session 2, Part A (PDF)	Session 2, Part A
Session 2, Part B (PDF)	Session 2, Part B
Session 2, Part C (PDF)	Session 2, Part C

April 23-24
Communication IS Rocket Science: Developing and Sustaining Evidence-based, Formal and Informal Communication Strategies Within and Without the Organization

• Agenda (PDF)
• Communication IS Rocket Science: Developing and sustaining evidence based, formal and informal communication strategies focused on improving student outcomes in the context of VTSS (PDF)
• Steve Kukic’s Collection (PDF)
• 2012 MTSS Implementation Year 1 Fact Sheet (PDF)
• 2012 MTSS Implementation Systemic Implementation Plan Fact Sheet (PDF)
• 2012 VTSS MTSS Year 3 – Overview Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Resources for VirginiaSchools for Fostering Parent Involvement (PDF)
• Tips and Strategies for Increasing Parent and Family Involvement in Virginia Schools (PDF)
• Parent and Family Involvement Tool Kit for Virginia Schools (PDF)

Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1 (PDF)	Session 1
Session 2 (PDF)	Session 2
Session 3 (PDF)	Session 3
Session 4 (PDF)	Session 4

March 8-9
Integrating Academic and Behavior Instruction and Intervention Into a Single System

• Agenda (PDF)
• Florida's Multi-Tiered System of Supports – Implementing a Multi-Tiered System of Support for Behavior (PDF)
• Florida's Multi-Tiered System of Supports – MTSS Implementation Components (PDF)
• Multi-Tiered System of Supports – Integrating Academic and Behavior Instruction and Intervention into a Single System (PDF)
• Self-Assessment of Problem-Solving Implementation (SAPSI) (PDF)
• Tiers 1 and 2 Observation Checklist (PDF)

Transcripts	Audio Files
Session 1, Part A (PDF)	Session 1, Part A
Session 1, Part B (PDF)	Session 1, Part B
Session 2, Part A (PDF)	Session 2, Part A
Session 2, Part B (PDF)	Session 2, Part B
Session 3, Part A (PDF)	Session 3, Part A
Session 3, Part B (PDF)	Session 3, Part B
Session 4 (PDF)	Session 4

 

Janaury 31-February 1
Response to Intervention (RTI) Progress Monitoring – Measure What You Treasure

• Agenda (PDF)
• Progress Monitoring in RTI/ MTSS: Critical Tools - Emerging School Practice (PDF)
• Monitoring Student Progress (PDF)
• Sample Purpose of Assessments (PDF)
• Virginia Department of Education Student Growth Percentiles Business Rules (PDF)
• Introduction to Student Growth Percentiles in VA (PDF)
• Virginia Department of Education Student Growth Percentiles Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Transcripts:
  • Session 1, Part 1 (PDF)
  • Session 1, Part 2 (PDF)
  • Session 1, Part 3 (PDF)

Audio Files
Session 1, Part A, Session 1, Part B, Session 1, Part C, Session 1, Part D	Session 2, Part A, Session 2, Part B, Session 2, Part C

 

2011 Sessions

November 29-30
Response to Intervention (RTI) Leadership: Realizing the Moral Imperative

• Agenda (PDF)
• The Moral Imperative Realized (PDF)
• RtI School Restructuring Initiatives: Reading and Math (PDF)
• The Lee County, Florida Story (PDF)
• Lee County RTI Manual (PDF)
• Lee County RTI User Guide (PDF)
• Lee County Fundamentals of  Process and Practice Chart (PDF)
• Florida Reading Model (PDF)
• Assessment and Progress Monitoring (PDF)
• Positive Behavior Support (PDF)
• Steve Kukic’s Collection (PDF)
• Transcripts:
  • Session 1 (PDF)
  • Session 2 (PDF)
  • Session 3 (PDF)

October 28
Response to Intervention (RTI) Symposium: Making the Connection with Higher Education

• Agenda
• RtI for Teacher Educators: A Call to Action (PPT)
• Infusing RtI for Preservice and Inservice Teachers Through University-School Partnerships (PPT)
• International Reading Association:
  • Tailoring the Fit: Reading Instruction and Middle School Readers (PDF)
  • Reading Resistance in Middle School: What Can Be Done? (PDF)
• Purposeful Reading at the Middle Level (PDF)
• Response to Intervention: Building the Capacity of Teachers to Serve Students with Learning Difficulties (PDF)
• RTI and International Reading Association (IRA) web site links:
  • Response to Intervention (RTI): Overview, Resources & Community
  • Successful Approaches to RTI – Collaborative Practices for Improving K–12 Literacy
• Teaching Students to Generate Questions: A Review of the Intervention Studies (PDF)
• On Beyond Remediation: Renewing the Call for Content Area Literacy Instruction (PDF)
• Vocabulary Acquisition: Synthesis of the Research (PDF)
• Instruction in Reading Comprehension for Primary Grades Students: A Focus on Text Structure (PDF)
• Collaboration, Comfort Level and College Faculty: RTI Involvement in Higher Education (PPT)
• Making the Connection with Higher Education (PDF)

July 19
RtI: Aligning Your RTI Process - A Nuts and Bolts Workshop

• Agenda (PDF)
• Student Intervention Plan Checklist (PDF)
• Intervention Plan Template (PDF)
• What Is Scientifically-Based Research on Progress Monitoring? (PDF)
• Monitoring Progress with Multiple Measures (PDF)
• Data Evaluation Meeting for Students Receiving a Tiered Intervention (PDF)
• Individual Problem Solving Meeting Notes (PDF)

June 27-28
Confronting and Conquering: RTI at the Middle and Secondary School Level and Schoolwide Discipline

• Agenda
  
  

Audio Files
Session 1, Part A,    Session 1, Part B
Session 2, Part A,    Session 2, Part B
Session 3, Part A,    Session 3, Part B
Session 4, Part A,    Session 4, Part B

• Supporting Information:
  • Brenda LeBrasse, Executive Director, Curriculum & Instruction, Colorado Springs School District 11, Colorado Springs, Colorado
    •  Session 1 – Response to Intervention as an Organizing Framework: Who, What, Why and How (PDF)
    •  Session 2 – RtI: The Behavioral Side (PDF)
  • Randy Sprink, Ph. D.
    • Session 3, 4 – Creating RTI-B: A Continuum of Behavior Support (PDF)

April 6-7
Response to Intervention: Elements of Successful Implementation

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio File – RTI: Elements of Successful Implementation
• Infrastructure with Foundation and Fidelity (PDF)
• Virginia RTI Secondary Handouts (PDF)
• RTI Guided Self Study Handouts (PDF)
  

March 1-2
Elements of Successful RTI Implementation and Data Analysis

• Agenda (PDF)
• Building and Sustaining a Multi-Tiered System of Supports: The Wichita Way (PPT)
• Kansas Multi-Tier Systems of Supports: Academic Structuring Guide (PDF)
• Kansas Configuration Matrix (ICM) (PDF)
• MTSS Systematic Implementation Plan Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Wichita Public Schools Mission Statement Beliefs and Objectives (PDF)
• District Level non-Negotiables (PDF)
• The Formative Evaluation Component of Your MTIM (PPT)
• Cut Score Worksheet for Universal Screening (PDF)
• RTI Triangle (PDF)
• CMB Probe (PDF)
• 3 Cycle Chart (PDF)

2010

December 15-16

• Response to Intervention: Fundamental Principles and Pre-Requisites (PDF)
• RTI: Assessing District Current Status and Applying Basic Principles (PDF)
• Let’s Get Serious, Together!: Using a Multi Tier System of Supports to Achieve Improved Outcomes for ALL students (PDF)
• Steve Kukic’s Collection (PDF)
• Short BIO for Stevan J. Kukic, Ph.D. (PDF)

June 21-22

• Mathematics and RTI (PDF)
• What's worked at Valley Elementary School (PDF)
• Making a difference means making it different (PDF)
• RTI Math: Success in the Making (PDF)

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