Tier 3Tier 2

Tier 1

Righting the RtI Pyramid

Tier 3

Tier 2

Tier 1Birdville ISD

Houston, we have a problem. (Apollo 13)

Tier 3Tier 2

Tier 1

Former System

Elementary literacy focus

Random strategies, process, procedures

Compliance-driven

Inaccurate assessment of student performance

Great Awakening

Adopted ISIP as universal screener in Fall 2012

BOY data indicated more than half of students in need of Tier 2 or Tier 3 intervention

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Recommendation BISD as per ISIP

Visceral Response

Data Validate the Need for Change

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BISD ISIP Performance by Tiers - January 2013

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Training is Key

If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.

(Yogi Berra)

Task Force: Critical Learning

Lack of consistently communicated RtI philosophy

Inequitable distribution of staff and resources between campuses

Lack of professional learning for teachers and campus administrators around the central concepts of RtI

Key Actions

Developed RtI philosophy

Developed RtI processes

Determined key requirements

Established RtI Philosophy

Systematic Processes and

Procedures

ResourcesStaff

TrainingSuccessful

RtISystem

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

(Proverbs 19:18, King James Bible)

RtI Philosophy

Confronted data denial

Recognized the time needed to accept change

Established a coherent, non-negotiable model

Shifts in thinking

From struggling students as someone else’s problem

to shared accountability for

student outcomes

From a variable hodge-podge of approaches

to a coordinated utilization of district

and campus resources

From a silo of intervention

to a critical component of the

work we do

94% [of problems] belong to the system, 6% are attributable to special causes.

(W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics)

System Components

Improve Tier 1 instruction

Implement interventions with fidelity

Use data to make decisions

Collaborate

The BISD RtI Handbook

Strategies for Tiered Interventions

Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. (Ecclesiastes 4:9, New American

Standard Bible)

Importance of Collaboration

Designated champions give a face to the change

Builds ownership in the processCreates shared accountability for student learning

Put your money where your mouth is.

Focused Resources

Budgeting

Staffing

Professional Learning

Data accessibility

Additional Learning Resources

Technology

Transformation is a process, not an event.

(John P. Kotter, Leading Change)

Continuing Adjustments

Adjustments:- Progress monitoring- Assessments- Implementation- Training and support- RtI Plan as fluid

document

Continuing Development

Ongoing learning:- Addressing high

school- Implementing

behavioral RtI

BISD Continuous Improvement Model

RtI

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