Transcript Response to Intervention (RTI) Initial Implementation Top

Response to Intervention
(RTI) Initial Implementation
Top 10 Potential Perils and Pitfalls
Mary Barringer, Ph.D.
The SBS Group
10: Forging Ahead without a Map
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Step 1: Needs and Readiness Analysis
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Step 2: Comprehensive Plan
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Baseline data
Budget
Data Management
Selection of Interventions
Prioritized Training Needs
Goals
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Benchmarks
Timelines
Program/Outcome Evaluation
Staffing
Schedules
Fidelity Monitoring
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Changing Your Forms Without
Changing Your Processes
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Forms document the process
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Don’t try to make what you are already doing
“fit” into RTI-style forms
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Be VERY careful about when your forms
change from general education to special
education
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When do you suspect a disability
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Failure to identify
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Problem Solving Teams are the
New Pre-Referral Teams
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Problem Solving Teams are the anti-referral team
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Their job is to define the problem and identify the
solution
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“You’re Already Doing This…”
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Administrators must deal with staff resistance
directly
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Be honest
Provide support and training
Provide monitoring
Clearly convey your expectations
Don’t
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Minimize
Try to please everyone
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Data Management?
What Data Management?
Data to be managed
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Results of Universal Screenings for Academics
AND Behavior
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By district
By school
By classroom
By student
Data to be Managed
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District, building, classroom, student baseline data
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Results of universal screenings
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CBM
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Who is getting what intervention
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Response data
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Thinking That Tiers II and III
Can Float Without a Tier I Supporting Them
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You must start with effective instruction in
ALL classrooms and universal screenings
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Tier I is your foundation
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Failing to Monitor Treatment
Fidelity
Fidelity Monitoring
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If you want an intervention to be implemented
you must directly monitor fidelity
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Need forms for collecting and reporting monitoring
data
Training for Monitors
If you don’t monitor the intervention you cannot use
the response data for decision making
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Training? What Training?
Who needs what:
Administrators
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Conducting a Needs Analysis
Intensive training in what RTI is and is not
Analyzing data
The critical importance of their leadership
Resource reallocation
Responding appropriately to resistance
Training: Who Needs What
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Problem Solving Teams need At Least
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Problem solving process/methods
Setting appropriate goals
Evaluating data
CBM
Evaluating “research based” interventions
Matching interventions to students
Fidelity Monitoring
Training: Who Needs What
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Teachers need
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Fundamentals of RTI
Differentiated Instruction
Curriculum Based Measurement
Graphing Response Data
Training: Who Needs What
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Special Education Support Staff
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Basics of RTI
Collaborative Teaming
Consultation
Changing roles
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DNQ? We’ll Just RTI
Them Into SPED!!
Lack of a basic understanding of RTI among
general education teachers and administrators
“SPED Directors Owning It”
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You are invited to this party but do not offer
to be the hostess
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Yes, everyone will be happy to let you, but…
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No ownership by general education
No accountability for general education
Gatekeepers are great but the goal is to divert the
traffic