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Enhancing Education Through Response to Instruction: A View of Ascension Experience

Ascension Catholic School follows the RTI framework to provide individualized education, interventions, data-driven decision-making, and parental involvement. Learn about the school's journey, challenges, and success in this comprehensive approach. Find resources, volunteer opportunities, and insights from the classroom and intervention perspectives.

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Enhancing Education Through Response to Instruction: A View of Ascension Experience

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  1. RTIResponse to Instruction A View of the Ascension Experience

  2. Introduction Our mission: “We Believe that…All students are children of God, gifted with the ability to learn.” • IDEIA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004

  3. RTI: Ascension Catholic School • High quality core classroom instruction. • Supplemented, as needed, by progressively more intensive interventions. • Data collected of our K-8 students, three time a year, with a universal screener.

  4. Doing What Works/http://dww.ed.gov US Departement of Education

  5. 3 Tiered-Instruction Framework • Tier 1 -Core instruction: All Students • Tier 2 -Interventions: Small Group • Tier 3 -Intensive Support: One-to-One Tiers are permeable and flexible

  6. Benchmarks • Grade Level Benchmarking: Standardized, Norm-Referenced, Reading and Math assessments given 3 times per year -all students -quick -high specificity and sensitivity

  7. Progress Monitoring and Data-Driven Decision Making • Progress monitoring: -1 minute probe -skill specific -on student’s grade level • Data-Driven Decision Making: -allows for quick changes in interventions -allows for prescriptive instruction

  8. Parent Role • Parents are provided with: • information regarding their child’s current level of performance • interventions • goals and expected progress • timely reports of progress or lack of progress

  9. From the Administrator View • Core group of teachers are strength • Not everyone on board to start… It is more than a goal • Not mandated • Challenge of financing • It’s a process

  10. Changes… • No school psychologist on staff • History of IAT • The need for more data collection • Teacher involvement process

  11. Staffing it all… • Team Effort • Teachers • Auxiliary Employees • Federal Title 1 • Paraprofessionals • Parent Volunteers • Facilitating Leadership

  12. From the Classroom Perspective • Frustration of “Sending them on..” • More and more students with needs • Journey to RTI; with RTI

  13. From the Intervention Specialist View • Tier 3 of RTI Intensive Interventions -Accommodations vs. Modifications • Interdisciplinary Team Approach

  14. Volunteers • Use the wealth of gifts in parish, parents & seniors. • Link to AAT - Ascension Academic Team of volunteer- trained & organized!

  15. History of AAT • Idea Evolved • Ascension Academic Team (AAT) emerged • Volunteer Coordinator position established

  16. Ascension Academic TeamUpdate… • 36 trainedVolunteers staffing the Ascension schedule, with Nancy Blatt, our Volunteer Coordinator. • 16 of 22 teachers utilizing the Team serving students in K – 8 grades primarily in Reading and Math. • 1547 hours of volunteer assistance to the students and teachers in 2010-11.

  17. ARTIC Perspective • Ascension Response To Instruction Collaborative (ARTIC) • Teacher Driven – Student Centered • Building Teacher consensus-PLC • Provides sound, high-quality instruction for ALL students • Created dynamic discussions -within grade levels -across grade levels -across disciplines

  18. RTI Resources • RTI School Building Blueprint, National Assoc. • Turning Parents Into Volunteers Online book by Rhonda Jones, MA • DIBELS - dibels.uoregon.edu • AIMSweb - aimsweb.com/

  19. RTI Multiple Choice Review • A. Regional Transit Incorporated • B. Religion Teachers Institute • C. Response to Intervention

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