RTI in the news

Advisory group gives endorsed diplomas a nod - Journal-Advocate

May 18, 2012 - 2:10pm

Advisory group gives endorsed diplomas a nod
Journal-Advocate
The school board asked him to go to the district Response to Intervention (RtI) Committee two years ago to begin discussing defining diplomas. He pointed out the task force regulations were almost a perfect match with RE-1's plan.

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RE-1 District Accountability Advisory Committee approves endorsed diplomas - Journal-Advocate

May 18, 2012 - 5:58am

RE-1 District Accountability Advisory Committee approves endorsed diplomas
Journal-Advocate
The school board asked him to go to the district Response to Intervention (RtI) Committee two years ago to begin discussing defining diplomas. He pointed out the task force regulations were almost a perfect match with RE-1's plan.

La Salle teacher named new Harding principal - MyWebTimes.com

May 17, 2012 - 8:48pm

La Salle teacher named new Harding principal
MyWebTimes.com
"His knowledge of the K-8 curriculum, his knowledge of (Response to Intervention) as a teacher and his knowledge of the inclusion process." "The demographics at La Salle are similar to Harding so it's a good match," Joyce added.

Voyager Education Services' Best Practices Institutes Offer Complimentary ... - Sacramento Bee

May 17, 2012 - 6:14pm

Voyager Education Services' Best Practices Institutes Offer Complimentary ...
Sacramento Bee
The Institutes offer multiple strands appropriate for both administrators and teachers, including School-wide Improvement, Response to Intervention (RtI)/Multi-tier System of Support (MTSS), Instructional Leadership Literacy Instruction and the Common ...

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Digging Deeper: Fitz attendance higher than national average - WALB-TV

May 17, 2012 - 3:03pm

Digging Deeper: Fitz attendance higher than national average
WALB-TV
A new Response To Intervention committee or RTI is working with those students with chronic absences. "When students are beginning to first have problems we have several interventions we put in place, we counsel with the students we call the parents, ...

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Voyager Education Services' Best Practices Institutes Offer Complimentary ... - MarketWatch (press release)

May 17, 2012 - 1:08pm

Voyager Education Services' Best Practices Institutes Offer Complimentary ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Institutes offer multiple strands appropriate for both administrators and teachers, including School-wide Improvement, Response to Intervention (RtI)/Multi-tier System of Support (MTSS), Instructional Leadership Literacy Instruction and the Common ...

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Carrollton school administrators happy with early CRCT results - Times-Georgian

May 16, 2012 - 9:00pm

Carrollton school administrators happy with early CRCT results
Times-Georgian
Edwards said it would also be easier to improve because the school will be in the second year of another state program, Response to Intervention (RTI). RTI is the process of aligning appropriate assessment with purposeful instruction for all students.

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL - Education Week News

May 15, 2012 - 8:10am

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL
Education Week News
After response to intervention was referenced in federal special education law, the approach took off as a method of strategically targeting instruction, Mr. Hehir said. There has been strategic federal investment, research, and technical assistance ...

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'Helping is not doing' - Payson Roundup

May 11, 2012 - 2:21pm

'Helping is not doing'
Payson Roundup
At a recent meeting at JRE, she worked with her Response to Intervention (RTI) team to assess the effort to identify and bolster elementary school students starting to fall behind academically. The discussion centered on how Fitzgerald had changed the ...

Albemarle School Board Approves Budget - The Charlottesville Newsplex

May 11, 2012 - 2:10pm

Albemarle School Board Approves Budget
The Charlottesville Newsplex
"I felt that we could have used our fund balance to preserve a couple of important initiatives that we wanted to implement this year, which is the Response to Intervention program that would help our most struggling students," said Jason Buyaki, ...

Task force assembles plan - Star News

May 11, 2012 - 10:27am

Star News

Task force assembles plan
Star News
... so that high quality, differentiated professional development is delivered through multiple modalities. 10. The use of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and Response to Intervention (RTI) is enhancing the achievement level of all learners.

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Albemarle School Board wrestles with budget, staffing - The Daily Progress

May 10, 2012 - 6:42pm

Albemarle School Board wrestles with budget, staffing
The Daily Progress
Response to intervention staffing is aimed at aiding at-risk students in the county schools. Buyaki said he would like to have those positions left in the budget. “I wanted to preserve our response to intervention, which would help our most-struggling ...

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Clark retiring as district's teacher of the year - ThisWeekNews

May 9, 2012 - 5:15pm

Clark retiring as district's teacher of the year
ThisWeekNews
District officials and Pickerington Board of Education members on May 7 announced Clark -- a response to intervention specialist at Toll Gate Middle School and former fifth-grade teacher -- is the district's 2011-12 Teacher of the Year.

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Monmouth-Roseville School Board retains instructional aides, state funding ... - Monmouth Daily Review Atlas

May 9, 2012 - 5:08pm

Monmouth-Roseville School Board retains instructional aides, state funding ...
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas
By Olivia K. Leonard MONMOUTH — A proposal for a reduction in force of Response to Intervention (RTI) instructional aides for the next school year due to "cost containment" was struck down by the Monmouth-Roseville School Board in a 4-2 vote Tuesday ...

D34 To Discuss Proposed SRO Cut At Community Meeting Tonight - Journal & Topics Newspapers Online

May 9, 2012 - 3:13pm

D34 To Discuss Proposed SRO Cut At Community Meeting Tonight
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
The TOA would also have responsibilities dealing with response to intervention programs and curriculum. The elimination of SROs was proposed as part of the district's recent budget cutting plan. After community members balked at the idea of losing the ...

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Hamilton PTO donates $1000 for apps - Utica Observer Dispatch

May 9, 2012 - 7:17am

Hamilton PTO donates $1000 for apps
Utica Observer Dispatch
The PTO's donation will sustain the purchases throughout the remainder of the school year and will supply apps for students at all grade levels, including elementary, middle, and high school and special education, as well as Response to Intervention ...

Elmbrook hires social worker, school psychologists - Brookfield Elm Grove Now

May 8, 2012 - 8:43pm

Elmbrook hires social worker, school psychologists
Brookfield Elm Grove Now
With an extensive background in Response to Intervention and Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports, Janopoulos has worked with students at all levels. She has specialized training to support students with autism in the general education setting ...

Studies Shed Light on 'Twice Exceptional' Students - Education Week News

May 8, 2012 - 5:12am

Studies Shed Light on 'Twice Exceptional' Students
Education Week News
"If we do response to intervention first with these kids, we just assume they have a reading disability and they're not gifted, and by the time we get to evaluate them, their verbal IQ has gone down." Then, when the student gets referred for an ...

Northbridge Meeting Schedule for Week of May 7-11 - The Daily Northbridge

May 6, 2012 - 9:01pm

Northbridge Meeting Schedule for Week of May 7-11
The Daily Northbridge
School Committee, 7 pm, Media Center, Northbridge High School – The agenda includes Bullying and Peer Conflicts: Response to Intervention with Assistant Superintendent Nancy Spitulnik, Cathy Stanton, Building Administration, student support staff and ...

Mistakes writ large if reading goes wrong - Sydney Morning Herald

May 6, 2012 - 7:41am

Sydney Morning Herald

Mistakes writ large if reading goes wrong
Sydney Morning Herald
The most egregious example is its explanation of the Response to Intervention (RTI) approach to reading instruction. In an RTI model, students are taught to read in increasingly intensive tiers - with regular testing to ensure they are progressing well ...