Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) & Response to Intervention (RtI)

1. Ohio Improvement Process (OIP)& Response to Intervention (RtI) Considerations & Technology-based Solutions

2. Agenda for this Morning • Consider OIP & RtI • Connection to Assessment • Connection to Research-based Strategies • Tiers and Technology • Structuring technology considerations • Technology-based solutions

3. Who am I? • Associate Professor • Middle/Secondary Teacher • Father of Four • Who are you?

7. Stage 2 • Research Based Strategies • Assessment • Data Teams • Instructional Practice

8. National Conversation - RtI • RtI stands for? • There are _____ tiers? • Three critical features of RtI include: • ___ • ___ • ___

9. Three Models (Uses) of RTI • Prediction & Prevention • prediction of at-risk students and preventing students from falling behind • Remediation • intervention for students with academic or behavioral difficulties • Disability Assessment • an intensive intervention test that is one component in the SLD determination process

10. Critical Elements of RtI • Implementation of a differentiated curriculum with different instructional methods • Two or more tiers of increasingly intense, scientific, research-based interventions

11. Critical Elements of RtI • Individual problem-solving model or standardized intervention protocol for intervention tiers (possibly in combination) • Progress monitoring to assess entire class progress and individual student progress • Explicit decision rules for assessing learners’ progress (e.g., level and/or rate)

12. What Does RtI Implementation Look Like? • Students receive high-quality, research-based instruction by qualified staff in their general education setting (primary intervention) • General education instructors and staff assume an active role in students’ assessment in that curriculum • School staff conduct universal screening of (a) academics and (b) behavior (> 1/yr) • School staff implement specific, research-based interventions to address the students’ difficulties

13. Core of OIP & RtI • Please list three research-based practices that you your staff uses across the course of a week? • Describe it? • How do you know it is evidence-based?

14. Implications - Needs • Literacy • Mathematics • Behavior

15. Why the Need for OIP or RtI? What we Know

17. The Performance Gap 2013-2014 2Yrs 2 1/2Yrs Skills and Demands 1 1/2Yrs 1Yr 9 the The “Gap” 5 the Years in School 9 the

18. What is Available to Us? • Research-based Interventions • Evaluating Product/Curriculum/Instructional Resources • Assessment Tools

19. Research on the Web • Best Evidence Encyclopedia (B.E.E.) This website offers reliable, unbiased information on high-quality evaluations of educational programs.

20. Oregon’s Big Ideas • Big Ideas in Beginning Reading Focuses on BIG IDEAS of early literacy: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension.

21. Fl Center for Reading Research

22. FCRR Key Type of Program 1 = Core Reading Program 2 = Supplemental or Intervention Program 3 = Technology-Based Program 4 = Program that may be implemented by a tutor or mentor 5 = Intervention or Remedial Program for students above third grade Reading Component PA = Phonemic Awareness P = Phonics F = Fluency V=Vocabulary C = Comprehension + = some aspects of this component taught and/or practiced ++ = most aspects +++ = all aspects n/a = not addressed

23. What We Know • National Institute for Literacy - nifl.gov • The National Institute for Literacy, a federal agency, provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults.

24. What We Know - WWC • What Works Clearinghouse • ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc • Institute of Education Science’s Database sharing what we know about related research specific to standards and the research arm of NCLB.

25. Doing What Works – IES & WWC • Practice Summaries • Overview & Issues it Addresses • Learn What Works • Understand the research behind the practice • See How it Works • Schools engaged in the practice • Do What Works • Use examples of tools

26. Center on Instruction • Provides Links and Downloads for: • Scientifically Based Research • Reading • Math • Science • Special Education • English Language Learners

27. RtI Action Network • A program of the National Center for Learning Disabilities • Offers a guide educators and families in the large-scale implementation of RtI • Access research reports • How to tips • Temperature of what is happening in the field

28. National Center on RtI • Technical assistance to states and districts and building the capacity of states to assist districts in implementing proven models for RTI. • Reports • Products for consideration • Evidence-based practices for High School • Considerations for implementation

29. Progress Monitoring • National Center on Progress Monitoring • Tools for comparison • Tools for understanding ways to complete • Resources for application • Organized for portal entrance/use by • Teacher • Family • Administrator

30. 20+ Reports on Adolescent Literacy

32. RtI - Tutorials Professional Development for Teachers/Administrators/Para educators/Parents The IRIS Center • RtI - An Overview • RtI - Assessment • RtI - Reading Instruction • RtI - Putting it All Together

33. Special Connections • Modules for Educators • Curriculum Based Measurement • Instructional Practices • Positive Behavioral Supports • Functional Behavior Assessments • Professional Collaboration http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu

34. What We Know • KU’s Center for Research on Learning • http://www.ku-crl.org/projects/ • Strategic Instruction Model • http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/

35. What We Know • Resources - Application Tomorrow • The Literacy Web • www.literacy.uconn.edu • Reading Rockets • www.readingrockets.org • Intervention Central • http://www.interventioncentral.org/ • Reading is Fundamental • http://www.rif.org/

36. How do we Structure our Interventions? UDL Framework for Consideration

37. When I say AT you say? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

39. Principle One • Supporting Recognition Learning • Provide multiple examples • Highlight critical features • Provide multiple media formats • Support background contexts

40. Some Examples • Reading • Readplease.com • Texthelp.com • Setting an Anchor • http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ • Representing Material • http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/NAV/vlibrary.html

41. Principle Two • Support Strategic Learning • Provide flexible models of skilled performance • Provide opportunities to practice with supports • Provide ongoing, relevant feedback • Offer flexible opportunities for demonstrating skill

42. Some Examples • Practice • http://www.inspiration.com • Skill demonstration • Microsoft’s PPT - Star Wars • Inspire Data • Apple’s - iMovie • Microsoft’s Movie Maker • PhotoStory

43. Principle Three • Support Affective Learning - Provide alternative means for engagement • Offer choices of content and tools • Offer adjustable levels of challenge • Offer choices of rewards • Offer choices of learning context

44. Some Examples • Software Products - Adjustable levels • http://www.techmatrix.org/ • Type to Learn • Learning context • Hands on • Connect to previous understanding • Choice of Rewards • What makes you tick?

45. UDL Toolkit

46. Technology-based Solutions Bringing UDL to Life

47. Text-to-Speech Applications • Free text-to-speech software • Customize font and background color • Reads text via Windows clipboard from any program (copy/paste) • Reads e-mail emoticons such as :) or :( • Adjustable voice speed (rate) • Low vision color option

48. Text-to-Speech NaturalReader is a Text to Speech software with natural sounding voices. This easy to use software can convert any written text such as MS Word, Webpage, PDF files, and Emails into spoken words. NaturalReader can also convert any written text into audio files such as MP3 or WAV for your CD player or iPod. http://www.naturalreaders.com/

49. Scan and Reading Systems www.kurzweiledu.com WYNN Kurzweil 3000 www.freedomscientific.com

50. Text-to-Speech Products • Premier Accessibility Suite • http://www.readingmadeez.com • Text-to-speech software • Audio output - multiple voices • Highlights text as it speaks • Static Toolbar • Texthelp - Read and Write Gold • http://www.texthelp.com • Text-to-speech software • Audio output - multiple voices • Highlights text as it speaks • Reads on fly for any application