RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Jim Wright interventioncentral

1. RTI Teams: Potential PitfallsJim Wrightwww.interventioncentral.org

2. ! A teacher who has never referred to the RTI Team before comes to the meeting believing that the team can help her get the student referred for a special education evaluation. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

3. ! The RTI Team discovers during the initial meeting that they lack crucial background/baseline information about student (e.g., current reading levels, estimates of off-task behavior). RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

4. ! The referring teacher vents and vents and vents about the student during the meeting, leaving very little time to follow the problem-solving steps. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

5. ! The teacher and team start to talk about the student’s chaotic home situation. All hope is sucked from the room. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

6. ! The RTI Team selects an intervention that does not logically link to the assessment information that they collected (e.g., deciding to include the student in a self-esteem group when the identified problem is a reading deficit). RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

7. ! The RTI Team signs up to take on so much of the intervention and monitoring that the referring teacher has little to do. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

8. ! Confidential information about something the referring teacher said at an RTI Team meeting is shared outside of the meeting—and that teacher finds out about it! RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held

9. ! The RTI Team comes together for a follow-up meeting and discovers that the teacher was not able to implement the intervention at all. RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Baseline Data Collected Teacher Referral Initial Meeting Held Intervention Started & Monitored Follow-Up Meeting Held