Jody Oliver's List: RtI & PBIS

EPS/School Specialty's Literacy and Intervention division, is pleased to announce a new grant program designed to assist school districts in the development and improvement of their Response to Intervention (RTI) programs. Recognizing the power of RTI to ensure that all students are successful, EPS/School Specialty has developed this grant program to support districts in their efforts to narrow the achievement gap.

The RTI Action Network is dedicated to the effective implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) in school districts nationwide. Our goal is to guide educators and families in the large-scale implementation of RTI so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students – including those with learning disabilities – are identified early and receive the necessary supports to be successful. The RTI Action Network is a program of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, funded by the Cisco Foundation and in partnership with the nation’s leading education associations and top RTI experts.

The following internal and external Web links relating to Response to Instruction and Intervention (RtI2) are provided as resources and information for implementation.

easyCBM™ is an enhanced district assessment system designed by researchers at the University of Oregon as an integral part of an RTI (Response to Intervention) model. Distributed exclusively by Riverside, it provides school districts, administrators, and teachers with a full suite of assessment and reporting options, offering a complete solution at every tier of the RTI process.

easy, user friendly spreadsheet for data collection. The graphing is automatic. As of yet, I have not found anything quite like it and I'd like to share it.

RtIGraphs.com is the home to GRĀPS (Graphic Representation of Academic Progress System). This simple Excel-based tool creates charts for monitoring student educational progress over time. GRĀPS complements virtually any response to intervention model, and allows administrators to accurately monitor and assess student progress.

The Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies (HELPS) Programs integrate easy-to-use instructional strategies that are specifically designed to improve students reading fluency.

The high volume of research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education can make it difficult to interpret and apply the results.

We review the research.

Then, by focusing on the results from high-quality research, we try to answer the question “What works in education?”

Our goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.

SOLO is a literacy suite of the most popular assistive technology accommodations, including a text reader, graphic organizer, talking word processor, and word prediction. T

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The following Best Practice Framework provides descriptions of educational best practices that high performing, high poverty schools and school districts in California have in common. From the framework you can link to real world examples of how high performing districts and schools are turning these behaviors into successful practice.

The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.