Transcript IDEA Requirements - Western Suffolk Boces

Implications of RtI Implementation
for NYS Schools
Matthew Giugno
Barbara Miller
New York State Education Dept.
VESID
[email protected]
[email protected]
(518) 486-7462
Why RtI
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Provides appropriate learning for all students
Uses school-wide progress monitoring
Promotes early identification of potential
problems (Early Intervening)
Uses multiple measures of performance, not
measurement at a single point in time
Can be used as a component of LD
determination
Schoolwide Systems
Academic
Intensive Interventions
Behavioral
1-5%
Intensive Individual Interventions
10-20%
Small Group Interventions
Scientific, Research Based
Core Instruction
Targeted Group Interventions
80-90%
Universal Interventions
Regulatory Amendments
 Part
117
 Part 100
 Part 200
Part 117
 117.3
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(d) Diagnostic Screening
Screening in literacy, math, motor and
cognitive development
Review of instruction to ensure that explicit
and valid instruction used
Periodic monitoring
Instruction tailored to meet needs “with
increasing levels of targeted intervention and
instruction”
Amendments to Parts 100 and 200
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Section 100.2 (ii)
 Response to Intervention Programs (RtI)
Section 200.2 (b)
 Board of Education Requirements
Section 200.4 (j) - LD Procedures
 Referral
 Individual Evaluation
 Process for determining eligibility
 Criteria for LD determinations
 Documentation for eligibility determination
Amendments to Section 100.2 (ii)
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Schools may establish RtI as follows:
 Appropriate instruction for all students
 Increasing levels of intervention
 Frequent screenings and assessments
 Increasing levels of intervention
 Application of information to make decisions
 Written notification to parents
• Student performance data & gen. ed. services
• Strategies to increase learning
• Parents right to request evaluation
Amendments to Section 100.2
 District
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selects RtI structure
Criteria to determine levels
Types of interventions
Data to be collected
Progress monitoring
 Staff
Development to implement RtI
Evaluation- 200.4 (j) (1)
 Underachievement
is not due to lack of
appropriate instruction, CSE must
consider:
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Data of appropriate instruction
Data-based documentation of repeated
assessments provided to parents
Criteria – 200.4 (j) (3)
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Student does not make sufficient progress
when using RtI; or
Exhibits patterns of strengths and
weaknesses:
• Performance, achievement or both
• Relative to age, grade-level standards, or
intellectual development
200.4 (j) (4)
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prohibited from considering severe
discrepancy, except
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Not allowed after 7/1/2012 for
• K-4
• LD in Reading
C4E Allowable Program:
Dedicated Instructional Time
(100.13 CR)
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dedicated block(s) of time created
for instruction;
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research-based core instructional
program;
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a response-to-intervention
program; and/or
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individualized intensive
intervention shall be provided.
Resources/Links
 www.rti4success.org
 www.nrcld.org
 www.ncld.org
 www.nasdse.org
 www.aimsweb.com
 www.dibels.org
 www.interventioncentral.org