Are you in a participating district and looking for resources from a past training you or a colleague attended? Are you interested in the professional development you or your school district can receive by participating in the project? Look below for agendas, presentations, and resources for both past and upcoming trainings.
School districts in an ORTIi Cadre are committed to a comprehensive four year program to implement a Multi-Tiered System of Support for early literacy in their district. The Cadre beginning this work in the 2023-24 academic year is the 12th Cadre that has participated in ORTIi.
IPS with Jon Potter
February 29th, 2024
Holiday Inn, Wilsonville, OR
Targeted Support Districts
This training was originally scheduled for January 18th, 2024, but was rescheduled due to concerns about inclement weather in the region.
Purpose of the training:
During this one day training, ORTIi staff and Jon Potter from National Center for Intensive Intervention covered:
Updates for Tier 2: Intervention Review
Updates for Tier 3: Individual Problem Solving
Developing Standards of Practice for Tier 3/IPS (including training and monitoring)
While the focus of the day was primarily on intensifying reading instruction, we also discussed how to integrate social, emotional, and behavioral support when creating plans to support a student.
Who should attend:
Your district leadership team, including representatives from Special Education and SEL/PBIS.
Building leadership teams, including principals, literacy specialists, coaches, counselors and/or school psychs (or whoever organizes and facilitates intervention review and meetings where individual students are discussed, such as Student Study Teams, Multi Disciplinary Teams or PBIS Teams).
ESD employed school psychologists or other staff who support your school.
February Data Day
February 13th, 2024
Salem Convention Center, Salem, OR
Cadre 12 Districts
Purpose of this training:
This training helped participants to develop and/or refine a data-based decision making system for reviewing the effectiveness of core instructional. Two main topics were covered throughout the day:
Core Review Meetings - how to use universal screening data in a problem-solving model to help evaluate the health of core instruction and make instructional adjustments.
Monitoring core instruction - how to use a walkthrough process to determine professional learning needs and on-going support for core instruction.
Who attended:
District Implementation Leadership Team (DILT) AND building leaders (building principals, coaches, and teacher leaders) who will help support core review meetings and core instruction.
Introductory Tier 1 Training
October 10th and 11th 2023
Holiday Inn, Wilsonville, OR
Cadre 12 Districts
Purpose of this training:
During this required training, Cadre 12 District Implementation Leadership Team (DILT) members learned about ORTIi essential components with an emphasis on preparing to install Tier 1 practices (Core, Screening, and Data Based Decision Making structures).
Careful planning of these practices is essential for implementing strong, effective MTSS-Reading systems leading to better outcomes for students.
Who attended:
District Implementation Leadership Team, which consists of Directors of C&I/T&L, Federal Programs, ESL, Student Services as well as principals, literacy specialists/coaches, and teachers and specialist representatives.