Over the course of the 2017-2018 school year, school-wide teams will meet with Austin Buffum of Solution Tree to develop and refine their Response to Intervention (RtI) teams and school-wide process. RTI is not a series of implementation steps to cross off on a list, but a way of thinking about how educators can ensure each child receives the time and support needed to achieve success. This workshop was developed for school teams who have started RTI but are still refining processes or experiencing challenges. The presenter has worked with hundreds of schools throughout North America and can help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable. RTI work must be divided between collaborative teacher teams and two school-wide teams (a leadership team and an intervention team). Together, the entire school assumes responsibility for the learning of every student. Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail—and then learn how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles—collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access—and experience a simple process for bringing these principles to life in your school. This workshop will consist of the following four days: July 27-28, October 18 and January 24. Registration includes a copy of Simplifying Response to Intervention by Dr. Buffum and Mike Mattos.
This training is open to the following schools: Tucker, Southwest, Yocum, Fayetteville, and Kirksey. Topics covered will be: Behavioral Interventions, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, or Both?, and Dealing with Resisters.