We’re getting a very large spike in webtraffic. I’d like to encourage you to comment or write back if you have questions, thoughts or comments. We really believe in what we do and enjoy being a resource for schools and professionals around the country. We had a very productive summer with our clients, but that has kept us away from upgrading our work on our website. Hopefully, we’ll being able to get in a provide some fresh content. Part of it will just be setting up a writing schedule and putting the blog as part of it.

I’m working on some great ideas right now, so please come back soon.

Charles

We are huge fans of Daniel Pink’s Drive. I’m now a fan of RSA Animate who have put together a great way of ingesting his main ideas.

For those of us who are ardent believers in the capacity of Response to Intervention or Multi-Tiered Systems of Intervention to make a real difference in education, it is clear that we will need to unite to get over the hump of resistance.  At the secondary level, there really is a void of information making it all the more imperative that we reach out to each other.  Fortunately, there are a few people in our profession who are great networkers.  Recently, Holly from SCRED and www.secondaryrti.comreached out to us after meeting with Alan Coulter.  More on Holly in a sentence or two, first I’d like to thank Alan.  Alan has been a huge asset in helping to implement RTI across the nation.  Alan seems to have a knack for remembering everything and sharing his knowledge profusely.  Alan was super helpful to us and obviously the many people who have reached out to us because of his advice.  If Alan or one of his LSU associates are in your area, do yourself a favor and stop by and see him.

Okay, now for a plug for Holly.  I first encountered the SCRED (St. Croix River Education District, MN) site about a year ago.  There are some great documents that I recommend that you peruse.  There’s a lot of very basic stuff on the web, I think you’ll find the SCRED materials are more sophisticated and content rich.  I’d give it a look.  There’s quite a bit of updating since I first looked at it.  Check out the www.secondaryrti.com site, too. 

Both Alan and Holly are examples of people who reach out and network.  We’ll only be successful with all of this business if there’s more of this type of connecting.  There’s a lot to be learned and we need to steepen learning curves as much as possible.

Please pass on other sites that I should give a shout out to.  I’d love your feedback.  We’ve got a good number of readers and I’d like to start sharing the collective knowledge.  There are many local education agencies and intermediate education agencies putting out some great work.  We need to get it into our networks.

Thanks for reading.

Charles

We often share that SEL easily fits within our model.  The hard part is finding a measurable set of standards to work from.  While the State of Illinois has a nice set of standards, school’s wanting to use them will have to establish their own set of benchmarks.  This is no small undertaking.  British Columbia has a nice set of benchmarks, but they are designed for grades 9 and 10.  This isn’t a bad place to start.

Episode #7 of the 9 Levels for PLT development and utilization for Response to Intervention.