Response to Intervention RtI: Important Components at the High School Level

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Response to Intervention (RtI) Important
Components at the High School Level

• Charles Johns, Ph.D., Principal, Rolling Meadows
  High School
• Christine Martin, ASPIRE North Regional
  Coordinator Indian
• Prairie RtI Coach
• Lindsay Schrand, NSSED RtI Coach
• Sharon Tate, Assistant Superintendent for Student
  Services,
• Indian Prairie District 204

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What is RtI?
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What is RtI?
Current Policy Outcomes-Driven All Students
Problem Solving Model
incorporates
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Problem Solving Model
A GLIMPSE OF 4 STEPS USED AT ANY LEVEL/TIERS
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General High School Considerations for Planning

• Problem Solving Process

• Process shouldnt be different for High School

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What is RtI?
Current Policy Outcomes-Driven All Students
with
3-Tier Model
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3-Tier Model
STUDENTS
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General High School Considerations for Planning

• 3-Tier Model

• Need to create structures for supplemental
• and intensive instruction

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What is RtI?
Current Policy Outcomes-Driven All Students
uses
Scientifically-Based Data Systems
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District Assessment Plan
Shift District approach from Assessment OF
Learning to Assessment FOR Learning. Shift
Thinking to Every Ed
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General High School Considerations for Planning

• Data Systems

• Use of Data Readily Available
• ISAT/PSAE
• GPA
• Attendance
• Discipline Referrals
• Add Common Assessments
• Formative
• Summative

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What is RtI?
Current Policy Outcomes-Driven All Students
and
Scientifically-Based Interventions
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General High School Considerations for Planning

• Scientifically-Based Instruction Interventions

• Need to improve instructional reach through
• universal design for learning principles
• Content Enhancement Strategies
• Learning Strategies
• Move to deep rather than wide curricular
• expectations

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What is RtI?
Current Policy Outcomes-Driven All Students
for
Data-Based Decision Making
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The New Way RtI and Individual
Referral-Driven Problem Identification

• Combines the use of benchmark data from the
  universal screening process to identify students
  needing supplemental or intensive instruction
  (RtI), along with continued use of an individual
  student referral driven process to identify
  students who may require additional academic or
  behavioral intervention.

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Schools Use CBM in Universal Screening Instead of
Referral Driven Practices
Mark Shinn, 2007
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How Do you KNOW if Core Instruction is Working
Screen-Many students not Learning at Tier 1
Grade Level Standard
Now does she look like a problem?
Kelly in Red Seems to be a Problem
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General High School Considerations for Planning

• Data-Based Decision-Making

• Need structure for houses and departments to
  regularly
• review data, make instructional/intervention
  changes

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How do we get there?
includes
Training
to create changes in
Process, Eligibility, Intervention
involves
by looking at
Data
Changing Roles
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Coaching provides . . .

• Push-in, continuing staff development
• Intervention Technology support
• Model-Lead-Test of concepts taught
• through training
• Accountability for quality implementation
• Fidelity of process, assessments, interventions
• Moral support

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How We Started

• Information gathered via needs assessment
• Information was compiled
• Based on Data determined next steps

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Next Steps

• Building Level Leadership
• Team Format/Process
• On-Going Needs Assessment
• Universal Screeners
• Technology for Integrated Data System
• Entrance and Exit Criteria for Intervention
• Professional Development
• Parent Involvement
• Role Change

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Self-Assessment

• Research-Based Assessment Practices
• Screeners, entrance/exit
• Progress monitoring
• Technology Solutions

• Consensus Building
• ID Building Team
• Communicate with all staff
• Including parents/stakeholders

• Standards-Based Curriculum and Research-Based
  Instruction
• Treatment Fidelity Tools
• Standardize communication regarding resources

• Student Intervention/Problem Solving Team
• Systematize Process
• Develop Policy

• Intervention Strategy Identification
• Gap Analysis
• Tx Integrity Entrance/Exit

• Resource Allocation
• .5 FTE
• Induction Process
• Partners (IASPIRE/University)
• Manual/Handbook

• Professional Development
• Priority PD
• Specialized training
• Technology
• Students/Parents

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Prioritized Timeline to Prepare Transition Plan

• Meet with Technology Support
• Building Leadership Team
• Outline Professional Development Activities for
  Next Year
• Screening Process (data, team, decisions)
• Policy/Procedure (e.g., Manual/Handbook)

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District 204s High School

• Implementation Framework

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Begin using data to make decision for students (
GPA, Common Summative And Formative Assessments,
homework completion , discipline data)
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Indian Prairie Dist 204Neuqua Valley Freshmen
Campus Tier 2 Example

• Problem Solving Team
• Mark Truckenbrod, Kerry Cahill, Janine Keca, Mart
  OConnor, Pam Witt and Michelle Perkins
• Spring, 2008

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Problem Solving and RTI
Framework for making preventative decisions
and approaching common problems

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Whats the Problem?
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PS Team Decision

• Our team decided to focus on one academic course.
• We targeted World Geography because it is a
  required course and has the most failures first
  semester.

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Problem Analysis Planning
Students lack specific skills
Students do not complete homework
Students have excessive absences or discipline
problems
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Why is the Problem Occurring?

• Student failures may be occurring due to lack of
  homework completion.
• Student failures may be occurring due to low test
  scores.

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World Geography Survey

• Does your department calculate grades based on
  categories or total points? If categories are
  used, please list the names and weights.
• What is your late work policy? Is there a
  difference between late homework assignments and
  major assignments?
• What is your homework policy? Do you assign
  homework daily

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World Geography Survey

• What is the biggest determining factor in a
  students failure?
• What can be done to help students succeed?

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Specific Intervention

• The PS team further narrowed its focus on
  improving student achievement and reducing
  failure rates in World Geography by targeting
  homework completion. This decision was based on
  the World Geography Teacher Survey and current,
  accumulated data.

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Initial Student Target Group 48
The initial target group was decreased to 34
students in order to eliminate special education
students and students with grade contracts.
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Goal

• In seven weeks, when a student who has failed
  World Geography first semester begins or
  continues to fail second semester, this student
  will attend a 20 minute mandatory homework
  assistance program monitored by the problem
  solving team and Social Studies teachers during
  option period until a passing, satisfactory grade
  percentage is achieved.

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Student Orientation

• Initial Student Meeting 4/07/08
• Greeting and Introductions hand out homework
  folders check to see which students dont have
  an assignment notebook.
• Rationale for program
• Want them to pass classes especially required
  classes such as geography.
• Want them to take ownership for their personal
  academic success (e.g., use assignment notebook,
  view pinnacle weekly, check in with adult staff
  member).
• Provide extra time in school with teacher support
  to work on homework and answer questions.
• Program Mechanics
• Each student will be given a folder to track late
  work, keep all homework in, and track work
  completion and personal effort on each
  assignment.
• Each student who does not currently have an
  assignment notebook will be given a new one, and
  is expected to use. Assignment notebook will be
  checked for completion daily in resource.
• You will be required to report to a resource room
  for the first 20 minutes of your option. You are
  expected to be there when the bell rings. If you
  dont show up, deans assistants will be sent to
  find you. Tardy policy will apply to this
  class.
• You will be assigned an adult staff member at
  Neuqua who you will check-in with every Friday to
  review your grade and homework completion rate in
  geography. You and the staff member you are
  assigned to will decide on a time when you will
  consistently meet every week.
• If you have no missing homework assignments (in
  geo) when you check-in with your assigned adult
  AND have a passing grade for the class, you will
  not be required to attend resource for the
  following two weeks. If you have missing
  assignments and/or are failing, you must continue
  to come. Whether you are required to attend will
  be decided every other Friday. The contact person
  will enter Y (yes) or N (no) into the all-staff
  folder to indicate whether their student must
  attend the ARC for the next two weeks. Attendance
  will be monitored by the resource teacher on the
  same log.
• This program will continue through the remainder
  of this school year.

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Intervention Integrity Assessment

• Types of integrity assessment for our program
• -self-report/log -checklist/rating scale
  direct observation
• Students are required to fill our a homework log
  each day for World Geography.
• World Geography teachers initial the form each
  day.
• Case managers or teachers review the homework log
  and dialogue with students during 20 minute
  option time.

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Progress Monitoring Plan
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Plan Evaluation-Option Attendance
Attendance/ Communication done through common
file on schools server
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What are we going to do now?
- Robert Doisneau, 1952
MO
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Current Events

• We planned to meet in August to refine our ideas
  and come up with a plan
• We decided to expand MAR efforts
• Plans for Math Intervention also came online to
  be implemented in the fall

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Current Events

• Two Efforts To Start This Year
• - Identified 24 incoming freshman as having a
  cummulative GPA
• - How will we identify others who we believe
  will benefit from this intervention?

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Current Events

• We contacted the parents / guardians of the 24
  identified freshman
• Two students have withdrawn from Neuqua Valley
  High School
• The other 22 parent/guardians are in full support
  of the effort (with review each 3 weeks)

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Current Events

• Each student reports to Academic Resource for the
  first 20 minutes of the period
• Students are required to present their planners
  with up-to-date assignments listed for each day
• We met with AR teachers to ask for their
  assistance in taking attendance and to outline
  the intervention (Training?)

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Current Events

• Weve asked each student to select a Faculty
  Advisor
• Brief training for Faculty Advisor
• Mart Sandi continue to develop resources for
  Resource

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Current Events

• We will conduct a review of all participating
  students after each 3 week period or 3 times per
  quarter
• Recommendations will be made for students to
  remain or be exempt from Mandatory AR
• Parent contacts will be made at this time

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Current Events

• A student is exempt from Mandatory AR when they
  meet the following benchmarks
• - 70 in all classes
• - No missing assignments

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Current Events

• We are developing a data review process
• 3 week grade checks will remain in effect for
  each student identified
• Our current thought is to remain fluid, allowing
  students to be transitioned in/out of MAR
• VW

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Current Events

• This is certainly a work in progress
• We continue to use the problem solving model to
  refine our practices

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Current Events

• Our goal is to eliminate failures due to homework
  incompletion
• While homework impacts each department
  differently, this is a building-wide intervention
  that needs support from each department

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Current Events

• YOU may be the only Faculty Advisor that can
  reach that kid
• Again, very short training for each Faculty
  Advisor to get you started
• Short training for each Resource Teacher to get
  them started

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• Youll find more information about Indian
  Prairies RtI process at
• IAASE website RtI from Concept to Reality page
  www.iaase.org
• Illinois ASPIRE website
• www.illinoisaspire.org
• Indian Prairie District 204 website
• https//blackboard.ipsd.org/ click course
  catalog type problem solving into search
  catalog

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Questions for us?