When we first entered the world of RTI, we started with a loose understanding of the concept and dove into it. We did as much research as we could, but we didn’t discover the NADSE Blueprint until we were already beyond its usefulness. Nonetheless, it is a great tool for laying out your long term implementation plan. Over the weekend, I was culling my RTI literature and I came across two other great resources. Deep in the Heartland Area Education Agency materials you can find some great materials. I think that the infrastructure development PPT is a great overview. If you spend enough time digging through the wonderful resources that you can find at Heartland’s site, you might find a reference to New Hampshire’s materials. New Hampshire has a nice interactive guide that is an alternative to NADSE’s and Heartland’s. I’m not saying that one is better than the other. They’re actually pretty similar. It’s just a good idea to triangulate to find what will work for you.
I’m still working on fixing the embedding of video; in the meantime, below is the link.
Episode #7 of the 9 Levels for PLT development and utilization for Response to Intervention.
We have finished up the webinar series. I’m not sure why, but we’re having difficulties embedding Vimeo into Wordpress. I’ll work on it when my schedule slows down. In the meantime, here is the link for Webinar #6.
We will be presenting at this week’s NASSP Convention in Phoenix. We have a number of readers from around the country. If you’re there, please stop by and say hello.
This will likely be our last major presentation for the school year. We have a few more webinars to wrap up and then we can get back to work on attending to our website.
We’re working on a multi-day workshop. It has been a regular request. If you’re interested, please email us and let us know. If it comes to fruition, we’ll make sure that we send you an invite.
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Howard and I presented at the ACT conference today in Springfield. We spoke to 140 of the total 260 attendees. We’re pretty pleased considering that the other presentations were pretty appealing. We’re doing a repeat tomorrow in Lisle.
We had some great questions today. It’s hard to give people a solid over view in 1 hour, but it is pretty clear that people got a basic understanding.
The Illinois Association of School Administrators which is the Illinois superintendent’s group contracted with me to put together a short video about RtI implementation at the high school level. They were the recipients of RESPRO grant funds and are putting together a wonderful library of resources for superintendents.
This video is a quick shot of just a few of the things that we cover in our presentations on RtI. I was trying to avoid the 30 minute threshold and actually went longer than intended. It should give you a sense of some of our material.
It was a fun experience. Howard, Joe and I had just finished presenting for the Illinois State Board of Education’s Superintendent’s Conference and the IASA was literally across the street from the conference. They have a wonderful facility and a very warm and friendly staff. We would like to thank Executive Director Richard Voltz for his time and great conversation about RtI and data in the state. Also, Don Hahn was a great producer. I literally just sat down and started filming. It’s a neat technology from Sonic Foundry. I basically talk into the camera and show my Power Point.
Check out the site and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for reading.
Charles
