Responsiveness to Instruction Team

Barbara Bell, Principal
Robin Klaiber, Assistant Principal
Jamie Bumgarner, School Counselor
Amy Fier, RtI Coach
Gwyn Forehand, RtI TA
Stephanie Yoder, Program Specialist
Startown Teachers

The practice of providing high quality instruction matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about changes in instruction or goals and applying child response data to important educational decisions.

Highlights:
- Assessment used to make good teaching decisions
- Uses the Problem-solving model: an approach to developign interventions and ensuring positive student outcomes, rather than determining failure or deviance.
- Evidence-based instructional and behavioral strategies
- Continuous progress monitoring

AIMSweb: An internet-based system to gather data and create graphs to show growth or weaknesses in student achievementRtI: Responsiveness to Instruction

Intensive Interventions: Academic or behavioral strategies, methodologies and practices designed for students significantly lagging behind established grade-level benchmarks in the general education curriculum or who demonstrate significant difficulties with behavioral and social competence.

Probe: A one-minute test in area of weakness performed by either the teacher, TA, or RtI Coach

Problem-Solving Model: An approach to developing interventions and ensuring positive student outcomes, rather than determining failure or deviance; a seven step cyclical process.

Progress Monitoring: Weekly one minute probe in area of weakness

Strategic Interventions: Academic or behavioral strategies, methodologies and practices designed for students not making expected progress in the general education curriculum and/or have mild to moderate difficulties demonstrating social competence.  These students are at risk for academic future.