Killing 2 Birds with 1 Triangle RtI & PBIS

1. Killing 2 Birds with 1 TriangleRtI & PBIS Dean Richards, OrRtI Sarah Crane-Simpson, UMESD

2. Which Came First?

3. Too Many Acronyms . . . RtI = Response to Intervention PBIS = Positive Behavior Intervention and Support

4. Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success • Intensive, Individual Interventions • Individual Students • Assessment-based • High Intensity • Intensive, Individual Interventions • Individual Students • Assessment-based • Intense, durable procedures • Targeted Group Interventions • Some students (at-risk) • High efficiency • Rapid response • Targeted Group Interventions • Some students (at-risk) • High efficiency • Rapid response • Universal Interventions • All students • Preventive, proactive • Universal Interventions • All settings, all students • Preventive, proactive Academic Systems Behavioral Systems 1-5% 1-5% 5-10% 5-10% 80-90% 80-90%

5. Interventions Progress Monitoring Decision Rules and Protocol Core Curriculum with Strong Instruction Universal Screener Data based teaming Leadership Professional Development

6. Data based teaming RTI PBIS • Principal • Classroom Teachers • Specialists • School Counselor • School Psychologist • ODRs • Sped Referrals • Nominations

7. Data based teaming Types of meetings • Tier 1 (grade level) • Examine the overall health of the core program for ALL students • Tier 2 (intervention group level) • Examine students in interventions to determine, “Is what we are doing working?” • Exit, intensify, or continue intervention • Tier 3 (student level) • Problem solve around individual student need and design individual plan

8. Leadership PBIS/RTI • Teacher leaders • Job delegation • Top down and bottom up

9. Professional Development RtI PBIS • Ongoing • Based on student and staff need and performance. • Time to collaborate and plan • Fidelity checks • Data used to drive professional development needs. • 101 • Tier 2 interventions • Team updates

10. Universal Screener RtI PBIS • ALL students at least three times per year • Good screening measures: • Efficient, brief, valid, reliable, unbiased and over-identifies • Screening is used as a key measure to determine: • The health of the core • Which students might need additional intervention. • Office Discipline Referrals • Screener • Teacher nomination

11. Core Curriculum with Strong Instruction RtI PBIS • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension • State standards • Scope and sequence • Engaging and motivating instructional strategies • School-wide expectations • Lesson Plans

12. Decision Rules and Protocol RtI PBIS • Provide the “now what” after teams have analyzed student data • Guide decisions for all tiers • Take the guesswork out of “what to do next” • Ensure equity across schools • Team meetings • Number of ODRs • Referrals

13. Progress Monitoring RtI PBIS • Data answers the question: “Is what we are doing working?” • Frequency: • Every 2 weeks (minimum) • Every week (ideal) • Data, not feelings

14. Interventions RtI PBIS • Designed to match instructional need • Is in addition todistrict core curriculum • Uses more explicit instruction • Provides more intensity • Additional modeling and guided feedback • Immediacy of feedback • Does NOT replace core • CICO • TKO • Social skills groups • Community involvement

15. Benefits of a RTI System RTI will help you to: • Know immediately, “Is what we are doing working?” • Know which students need more/different • Know what each student needs • Provide structures to deliver what students need • Reduce rates of identification of student learning disabilities • Prevent reading problems before they occur • Raise student achievement