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THIS IS A PAST EVENT
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Response to Intervention Institute
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November 11-13, 2009
Renaissance Hollywood Hotel
1755 N. Highland Ave.
Hollywood, CA
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Austin Buffum |
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Mike Mattos |
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William N. Bender |
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Thomas Guskey |
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Robert Howell |
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Elaine McEwan-Adkins |
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Sandra Patton |
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Donna Walker Tileston |
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| Intervene early. Respond appropriately.
This institute gives participants a total learning experience focused on RTI. Hear directly from experts who have put their knowledge to use in schools. Build your capacity to successfully implement an RTI system that complies with legislation and fulfills the true mission of responding to diverse students’ needs.
Compelling keynote presentations will connect participants to the core concept of RTI, and every breakout session is a winner. No matter which breakout session you choose to attend, you will come out ahead with skills and strategies from the best minds in education.
Designated team time brings experts to your table to work with you and your staff. They will problem solve, offer recommendations, and develop or validate your action plan. At the end of your planning session, facilitators will focus on the question, “Where do we go from here?” This segment will guide you and your team through next action steps. At the end of this institute, you will return to your school with a plan for successful implementation of an RTI system.
Be sure to take advantage of the technology showcase. A variety of vendors will be on hand to give you ideas on how to effectively do universal screening, progress monitoring, and data management.
This institute features four components:
Creating a culture for RTI
- Shared teacher responsibility for the success of all students
- Systemic responses when students don’t learn
Creating a tight, focused, standards-based curriculum
- Clear learning objectives
- Student ownership in learning
Aligning assessment systems to universal screening and progress monitoring
- Consistent, timely assessments across the school system
- Ability to turn on a dime when students aren’t learning
Designing and implementing appropriate interventions
- Instructional strategies focused on students lacking background knowledge and vocabulary
- Specific intervention models for literacy and math
- Interventions for the school and district
You will learn how to:
- Develop stakeholder support for educational redesign
- Establish RTI Leadership and Problem-Solving teams
- Use the professional learning community infrastructure to make RTI highly effective
- Use specific strategies to ensure all students can read and comprehend nonfiction texts
- Select and use research-based interventions to meet individual student needs
- Use data to monitor progress and inform instruction
- Garner parental support
- Implement the RTI model systemically
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Please confirm your registration before making travel plans.
To receive the discounted hotel rate, mention Solution Tree and make your reservations at least 60 days in advance.
Renaissance Hollywood Hotel
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Keynote Presentations
William Bender
Beyond the RTI Pyramid: What’s Next?
Schools across the nation have generated many options and solutions to address the questions surrounding RTI implementation. This session explores many of their strategies. Understand how middle and secondary schools determine the content of RTI systems, learn RTI procedures for elementary and middle school mathematics, and identify potential roles for various nonteaching educators in the RTI process.
Austin Buffum
A Systematic Answer to the Question, How Do We Respond When Kids Don’t Learn?
Learn how to transform your pyramid of interventions from “a list of things inside of a triangle” to an effective system that ensures quality instruction in every classroom and high levels of learning by applying the same systems that help educators function as professional learning communities.
Thomas Guskey
Response to Intervention and Assessment: New Names for Good Ideas
Although RTI closely parallels the use of formative assessments to guide the systematic correction of student learning difficulties, many educators fail to make the connection. This presentation illustrates this crucial connection and shows how to integrate elements of both.
Mike Mattos
Endless Possibilities
This passionate keynote creates a compelling vision for what RTI can achieve in a school when the entire learning community takes responsibility for the success of every child. Mike shares guiding concepts and practical strategies for providing students with what every child deserves—endless possibilities.
Donna Walker Tileston
Getting RTI Right: When Culture and Poverty Are Factors
Learn why understanding the effects of poverty and culture on learning is essential to successful RTI implementation. Dr. Walker Tileston shares powerful research from her book Why Culture Counts and introduces a model you can implement immediately.
Breakout Sessions
William Bender
Differentiation and RTI: Teaching for the Next Generation
Understand how differentiated lessons help focus activities to address the needs of all learners. Examples include various brain compatible instructional activities for elementary, middle, and secondary classes that excite student interest and assist struggling learners during tier one. Then, learn how tier two RTI interventions are more easily arranged when the class operates with different lesson activities for various learners.
Problems and Solutions in Implementation of RTI
This session presents a planning grid for developing and refining RTI efforts during the initial years of implementation. Learn how you can use this grid to answer ongoing questions surrounding implementation. Identify three issues that need to be addressed in RTI planning and learn how to locate resources for implementation without additional funding.
Austin Buffum
The Knowing-Doing Gap: Using “Outside the Box” Thinking
You may know a great deal about RTI but not be clear on how to make it work. This session provides elementary, middle, and high school models that demonstrate how real schools have used “outside the box” thinking to implement RTI without spending more money or hiring new staff.
Learning CPR: Creating Powerful Responses When Students Don’t Learn!
Learn how to create a highly effective, systematic intervention program and gain practical, proven intervention ideas. Dr. Buffum shows participants how to create a tiered system of interventions that provides different levels of support—from supplemental to intensive—appropriate to different student needs.
Robert Howell and Sandra Patton
Fidelity: Selecting and Using Strategies and Interventions
Understand how to match student needs to appropriate strategies and interventions using the variables of frequency, intensity, and duration. Robert and Sandra lead participants through the three tiers of RTI with a focus on the fidelity of treatment.
Building a Systemic Foundation to Establish RTI
Learn how to build the essential foundation for successful RTI processes in all environments. Real examples of systemic implementation help you understand and articulate the core principles and critical systems. Return to your school system ready to actualize the RTI belief system that all students can learn.
Building Problem-Solving Teams That Ensure a Rigorous Standards-Based Curriculum for All Students
Learn a problem-solving process based on root cause analysis that leads to effective problem-solving teams. Robert and Sandra also discuss the implications for special education eligibility and regulatory requirements.
Effective Use of Data in Screening, Assessing, Prescribing, and Progress Monitoring Student Achievement
Examine examples of screening, assessing, prescribing, and progress monitoring tools and processes. Robert and Sandra share actual student data resulting from successful RTI systems and show how successful problem-solving teams use data.
Mike Mattos
Beyond Buy-In: Creating Collective Responsibility for Student Learning
Mike reviews the obstacles to creating a collaborative culture and provides practical, proven strategies to overcome the traditional division between special and general education students.
PLCs and RTI: How to Build the Foundation for Effective Systematic Interventions
This session is designed to help educators understand how professional learning community practices are perfectly aligned to create the cultural and structural foundation needed to successfully respond when students don’t learn.
Filling the Cracks: How to Create a Systematic RTI Identification Process
A school can have outstanding intervention programs, but without a systematic identification process, some students are bound to slip through the cracks. Mike outlines the critical considerations for an effective RTI identification process and provides practical, proven implementation ideas.
Putting It All Together: Examining a Model Secondary RTI Program
What does a model secondary RTI program look like? Mike helps participants understand the big picture while providing proven, practical ideas from Pioneer Middle School, a nationally recognized PLC/RTI school.
Elaine McEwan-Adkins
Can We Really Teach Them All to Read?
Elaine addresses the moral imperative to teach all children using research-based instructional methods. Participants gain new knowledge and the inspiration to maintain the persistent belief that all will learn to read until solid data proves otherwise.
Does Your School Have What It Takes to Implement RTI?
Find out if you and your colleagues are ready for the challenge of implementing RTI. Come prepared to complete the 10 traits audit and let the results drive schoolwide improvement.
The 10 Traits of Highly Effective Principals: Leadership for RTI
The key to successful RTI implementation is strong instructional leadership. But there are nine other traits that highly effective principals exhibit daily. Benchmark your beliefs and behaviors against those of more than 35 K–12 school leaders.
Donna Walker Tileston
21st-Century Learners: What’s the Difference?
Examine the neurological differences in students today and discover how they learn best. Explore 21st-century questions such as, What do students need to know and be able to do that is different in this century? Dr. Walker Tileston discusses how technology is the tool of this century and why technology in the classroom is about “headware,” not hardware.
Why Culture Counts: Working With Children From Poverty
Learn a research-based model that not only closes the gaps in achievement but also raises the learning level of students. Based on Dr. Walker Tileston’s book Why Culture Counts, this session explores the meaning of culture and why it is crucial to a successful RTI program; identifies how to address the impact culture and poverty have on learning; and helps participants identify areas of need in schools and classrooms.
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Wednesday, November 11
7:00–9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
9:00–10:30 a.m. Keynote Presentation
10:30–10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions
12:00–1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00–2:30 p.m. Keynote Presentation
2:30–2:45 p.m. Break
2:45–4:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions
4:00–5:00 p.m. Team Time
Thursday, November 12
7:00–8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:00–9:30 a.m. Keynote Presentation
9:30–9:45 a.m. Break
9:45–11:00 a.m. Breakout Sessions
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:00–1:30 p.m. Keynote Presentation
1:30–1:45 p.m. Break
1:45–3:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions
3:00–4:00 p.m. Team Time
3:00–5:00 p.m. Technology Showcase
Friday, November 13
7:00–8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00–9:30 a.m. Breakout Sessions
9:30–9:45 a.m. Break
9:45–11:00 a.m. Keynote
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11:00–11:30 a.m. Closing Remarks
Agenda is subject to change without notice.
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You may register for graduate credit through Grand Canyon University.
After the Institute, you will receive a certificate of participation. Prior to registration, please check with your state Department of Education for CEU availability.
Download Request for University Credit and Official Transcript(s)
For more information, contact the Institutes Department at 800.733.6786 or institutes@solution-tree.com.
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The book Beyond the RTI Pyramid is included with your registration.
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By Phone: |
Call Solution Tree at 800.733.6786 or 812.336.7700. |
Cancellations more than 90 days prior will require a $75 processing fee. Cancellations between 10 and 90 days prior will require half of the registration fee. No refunds for cancellations less than 10 days prior. We welcome and recommend substitutions for those who must cancel. NOTE: All cancellations and substitutions must be in writing and postmarked. If you need to send a substitute, please send your request to accounting@solution-tree.com. |
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By Fax: |
Complete and fax a copy of the registration form to 812.336.7790. |
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By Mail: |
Complete and mail the registration form to:
Solution Tree
555 N Morton Street
Bloomington, IN 47404 |
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