Instructional Friday Focus: RtI

Dear Bison Colleagues,

Happy Friday!  As we close out another great week at Buffalo Grove HS, I am focused on the topic of Response to Intervention.

Teach and Learn with Passion!

Teaching and Learning Quotes:

“We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him."

- Henry David Thoreau

Danielson Framework for Teaching reminder:

There are 4 domains, 22 components and 76 elements that are considered aspects of a teacher's responsibility as documented through empirical studies.  The 4 domains are:

1. Planning and Preparation

2. The Classroom Environment

3.  Instruction

4.  Professional Responsibilities

Looking at Domain 1  Planning and Preparation 

1d: Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources

Here's a peek at what "distinguished" looks like for 1d :

Teacher seeks out resources for teaching in professional organizations and in the community, and is aware of resources available for students who need them, in the school, the district, and the larger community.

Strategy/Tool to Try: (thanks to ITF Jeff Vlk)

https://www.instapaper.com/

A dream for Teachers doing research based projects.

Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on the Internet. Instapaper syncs the articles and videos you save so that they’re waiting for you on all your devices - iPhone, iPad,Android, or Kindle. You can read anything you save, anywhere and anytime you want, even offline!

Instructional Focus:  

Response to Intervention, or RtI as we call it in education, is defined by the National Center on Response to Intervention as follows:

"RtI integrates assessment and intervention within a school-wide, multilevel prevention system to maximize student achievement and reduce behavior problems.  With RtI, schools identify students at-risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions, and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions based on a student's responsiveness."

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Check out these sites for more resources:

http://www.rti4success.org/sites/default/files/What_is_RTI_2010_07_14_placemat.pdf

http://www.edudemic.com/response-intervention-rti-learning-disability-ld/

http://www.rtinetwork.org

http://www.interventioncentral.org

http://www.jimwrightonline.com/php/rti/rti_wire.php

As educators, we all play a role in the RtI process, whether it is helping to identify a student in need of an intervention, communicating with counselors and the PST team or implementing best-practice Tier I interventions/safety nets in the classroom to support struggling students.  

Here is the link to our Tier I interventions:

https://docs.google.com/a/d214.org/presentation/d/1ER79-Dzc01bh2pWlA_5IORD675gR_zOWJgOZpHnLTNg/edit?usp=sharing

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Bison Learning Leaders:  

• The cast and crew and faculty who were involved with The Taste of Sunrise fall play last week - what a heartfelt performance!
• The many, many teachers who's classrooms I've visited this week  - your commitment to the growth and education of our students is above and beyond!  I look forward to seeing more of you in action over the next few weeks!
• To the RtI Dynamic Duo of Tim and Milan - seeing the impact that your hard work and commitment to our student success and your partnering with the rest of our teachers and student services to ensure success for all is amazing!

Keep up the great work, Bison!  Happy Friday!