RTI & Career and College Readiness Standards

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Round Table November 16, 2011

Kathy Dewsbury-White Roberta Perconti

Purpose of Presentation

Presentation is about:– Seeing the links between CCSS & RTI– Linking the CCSS and RTI to Research and

Educational Policy– Linking Ingham ISD’s RTI work with Ingham’s CCSS

implementation service

What is RTI?What are the Common Core State Standards?

Turn to your partner and share:• Partner 1 share what your partner said about RTI

with the group. • Partner 2 share what your partner said about

common core with the group

RTI

“RTI is the practice of (1) providing high-quality instruction/intervention matched to student needs and (2) using learning rate over time and level of performance to (3) make important educational decisions to guide instruction”

~ National Association of State Directors of Special Education, 2005

Common Core State Standards?

K-12 standards in reading, mathematics writing, speaking, listening, literacy in history/social studies, science, technical subjects that set requirements for the learning of all students at age appropriate attainments

The standards are high quality (1) research and evidence based (2) aligned with college and work expectations (3) rigorous, and (4) internationally benchmarked

What do you notice about the definitions?

Commonalities

RTI• high-quality research and

evidenced based instruction/intervention

• using learning rate• and level of performance• for all students• to make important

educational decisions• to guide instruction

CCSS• High-quality research and

evidence based• K-12 standards• set requirements for the

learning • for all students• at age appropriate

attainments• internationally

benchmarked

Reading Foundational Skills

Big Ideas of ReadingFoundational to RTI Found in CCSS

The Five Big Ideas of Reading:– Phonemic Awareness (CCSS find in Foundational

Skills)– Alphabetic Principle (Phonics) (CCSS find in

Foundational Skills)– Fluency (CCSS find in Foundational Skills)– Vocabulary (CCSS find in Language)– Comprehension (CCSS find in own Category

Comprehension)

Core Principles of an RtI Framework

1. We can effectively teach all children.2. Intervene early.3. Use a multi-tier model of support.4. Use a problem-solving method for decision making.5. Research-based interventions/instruction to the extent

available.6. Monitor student progress to inform instruction.7. Use data to make decisions. 8. Use assessment (Universal Screener) for different

purposes.

Response to Intervention: What are the big ideas?

High quality instruction/intervention: Instruction or intervention matched to student need that has been demonstrated empirically and by practice to demonstrate high learning rates for most students

• Learning rate and level of performance: Learning rate refers to student’s growth in academic or behavioral skills over time in comparison to prior levels and peer growth rates. Level of performance refers to a students relative standing (growth) on some critical dimension of academic or behavioral skills compared to expected/predicted growth.

• Important educational decisions: Student intervention outcomes drive decision making at every tier. Decisions about intensity and duration of interventions are based upon data across multiple tiers of intervention.

CCSS What Are the Important Features?

• Based on research• Robust and relevant to the real world• Fewer, focused, coherent, and specific• Learning Progressions/embedded• Internationality Benchmarked

Common Core is

for enhancing adoption & implementation of

Continuum of evidence-based standards to achieve

Internationally Benchmarked Outcomes for…

All students

Framework

RtI’s additional contributions to meeting the high expectations in CCSS

Proactively planning to meet the needs of ELL students and students with disabilities

Paying attention to social, emotional, and physical development

A comprehensive schoolwide literacy program

PBIS

Introduction, page 6

Curriculum Instruction

Assessment

CCSS and the materials for teachers to use to teach the curriculum

Instructional strategies necessary to effectively teach the students the skills that will lead to their mastery of the CCSSUse of assessments for

different purposes to determine mastery of skills and effectiveness of instruction

All

Some

FewContinuum of Supportfor ALL

Assessment

InstructionCurriculum

Important Considerations

The CCSS are outcomes. In order to achieve the outcomes, there are specific skills students need to master within the standards to achieve the outcome.

RTI is a framework to develop how we ensure the outcomes we want are met.

in order to meet benchmarks/standards/outcomes(Common Core State Standards).

=

ALL students get these tiers of support(Instruction/curriculum

per need )

+

Three Tiered Model of Student Supports= Student Outcomes to Standards

The goal of the tiers is student success, not labeling.

National Perspective

RtI

ESEA

Learn Act

CCSS

IDEA

Defining College and Career Readiness

“College ready”: – Prepared to enter and succeed in entry-level credit

bearing courses without remediation“Career ready”:

– Prepared to enter the workforce in a career that provides a family-sustaining wage and has pathways to advancement

The Four Dimensions of College Readiness

•Key Cognitive Strategies• Problem formulation, research, • interpretation, communication,

precision and accuracy.•Key Content Knowledge

• Key foundational content and “big ideas” from core subjects.

•Academic Behaviors• Self-management skills:

time management, study skills, goal setting, self-awareness, and persistence.

•Contextual Skills (types and missions, affording college, college culture, and relations with professors, admissions requirements, how to apply)

Key Cognitive Strategies

Key Content Knowledge

AcademicBehaviors

Contextual Skills and Awareness

Key Cognitive Strategies

Key Content Knowledge

AcademicBehaviors

Contextual Skills and Awareness

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Driving Common Core• Disparate standards across states

highlight lack of coherence, focus, and clarity (specificity)

• Student mobility affects equity• Global competition increases

expectations• Jobs in the 21st century require more

advanced skills

Sample Common Core

Hunt Institute Short Videos about CCSS

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuntInstitute#p/u/5/JDzTOyxRGLI

Exemplar Textshttp://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

Commensurate “Shifts in Instruction” document http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-shifts/

CCSS Implementation: the Journey

Understand & Communicate

Implement Measure

Background InformationRationale College Career Ready

Sequencing topics – connecting materials/assessments

Assessment Implications: reasoning, performance-based, computer-based/adaptive

Develop Plan & Time line Instructional Implications/accompanying PD

SI Process and RtI Framework

Immersion in Documents/Gap Analysis

Alignment of Materials/Revise-refine units & lessons

Adaptations SWD, ELL

Understand/Identify Implications – informs Plan

Unit Planning & DISWD and ELL

Technology – test online, provide experience with format. & archive/analyze standards-based

Communicate: vested parties

Schedules/Structures

Sample Time line for Implementation of CCSS2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015

MEAP/MME same MEAP/minimal modification + pilot items SBAC

MEAP/minimal modification + pilot items SBAC

SBAC NEW Test given last 12 weeks of school year

Leadership-develop CCSS talk: What & Why

Dist. Plan + Time line for CCSS Implementation

Immerse Faculty Gap Analysis

Coordinate w/S.I. RtI, Ed. Eval., other

Revise Curriculum: sequence, materials, lessons-units

PD Opportunities in High Need Areas

Update AssessmentsReport Cards (analyze/adjust)

Plan Technology- data system & online testing

Revise additional content/grade levels

PD Opportunities in High Need Areas

Update AssessmentsReport Cards

Pilot on-line testing summative/interim

Revise additional content/grade levels

PD Opportunities in High Need Areas

Use SBAC Interim Benchmark/analyze & act

Administer NEW Summative

Status of CCSS Implementation: IISD Constituent Districts

6/11 districts have active, District Team (2/6 integrated w/other district initiatives)8/11 districts grade levels & departments meeting10/11 districts report ELA gap analysis; 8/10 math gap analysis; 2/11 science/SS analysisTrends emerging needs: when/how science/SS; standards-based report cards, Expository reading-writing all content areas, mathematical processes

Continued - IISD Constituent District Status Implementation

Next steps reported: need a plan, need to refine plans, need emphasis on expository writing/reading, need emphasis on mathematical processes, need to deal with science/SS in context of CCSS

IISD Assistance Requested: focus, nuts & bolts processes, line up PD w/emerging needs.

Example of CCSS and RTI Integration & Service in Ingham

Deep Drivers

• RtI Coach Skill Set identified in every district• Data based decision making using problem solving

framework• Use of research based instruction, intervention and

assessment• Family/community involvement• Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring• Focus on Early Warning Signs• Leadership, Leadership, Leadership!

Professional Development 2011-12

Continued Focus• Leadership:

– Principal’s Academy-- CCSS Work

Days/Updates, E-Bulletins

• Literacy– Anita Archer– Kevin Feldman– Core Reading

• Positive Behavior – George Sugai

• Intervention Support– Literacy

• RtI/MiBLSi trainings

Emerging Areas• ELA/secondary Expository

Reading/Writing across content areas• Math

Data Collection, instruction & intervention

Mathematical Processes

• Early Warning Signs (EWS)Continuing work with High Schools

• Family/Community Involvement

• Fidelity

• Tier 2 and Tier 3.

IISD Web ResourcesPlease note…IISD is attempting to identify the best resources available, share resources among neighboring districts and to create resources if they do not yet exist. Our CCSS E-Bulletin will link and highlight these resources.

Resources are found at the URL here:

http://www.inghamisd.org/programsandservices/sds/curriculum/commoncore/

To be added to the email list to receive the e-bulletin please contact: Wendy RobinsonAt wrobinso@inghamisd.org or Kathy Dewsbury-White at kdwhite@inghamisd.org

Putting the Pieces Together

RtICCSS

District Implementation

Plan

Support Structure