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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Buffum, Austin G., author. | Mattos, Mike (Mike William), author.
Title: RTI at work plan book / Austin Buffum and Mike Mattos.
Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019014113 | ISBN 9781949539516 (spiral bound)
Subjects: LCSH: Response to intervention (Learning disabled children)--Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Learning disabled children--Education--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Classification: LCC LC4705 .B849 2019 | DDC 371.9--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019014113
Solution Tree
Jeffrey C. Jones, CEO
Edmund M. Ackerman, President
Solution Tree Press
President and Publisher: Douglas M. Rife
Associate Publisher: Sarah Payne-Mills
Art Director: Rian Anderson
Managing Production Editor: Kendra Slayton
Senior Production Editor: Todd Brakke
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are so grateful for our collaboration with Jeffrey Jones, Douglas Rife, and the exceptional professionals at Solution Tree. We know this collaboration has been so successful because we share a common vision—to transform education worldwide to ensure learning for all! The press team has edited and improved every sentence of all our books, and the professional development and events teams have made this content available through RTI at Work™ institutes, workshops, and onsite support. We would specifically like to thank Todd Brakke for his outstanding contributions to this plan book—he is most directly responsible for moving this project from concept to completion.
We call our intervention recommendations RTI at Work because they are built on the Professional Learning Community at Work® (PLC at Work) process. We believe that it is impossible to develop an effective system of interventions unless it builds on the guiding principles of the PLC at Work process—with a learning-focused culture, collaborative structures, and a results orientation. The original authors and leaders of this process—Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker—have generously shared their knowledge, expertise, and friendship. In fact, Solution Tree’s first plan book—the PLC at Work Plan Book (DuFour, DuFour, & Eaker, 2006)—was Becky’s idea, and this resource is modeled after it. We hope that our work leads others to the power of the PLC at Work process and honors the lives of our mentors, Rick and Becky.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reproducible pages are in italics.
Response to Intervention Simplified
The Foundation: Being a Professional Learning Community
RTI at Work Essential Actions for Tiers 1, 2, and 3
The Essential Responsibilities of Teacher Teams
The Essential Responsibilities of Schools
The Trust on Our Team Survey
Steps for Establishing Team Norms
Team Action-Planning Template
Essential Standards Selection Criteria
Future-Focused Learning Frameworks
RTI at Work Essential Standards Chart
Essential Standards Unit Plan
Student Profile Placemat
Targeting Interventions by Student, by Standard, and by Learning Target
Friendly Language to Help Students Own Their Learning
Ensuring Access to Grade-Level Essential Curriculum Protocol
Universal Screening Protocol
Prediction and Prevention Protocol
Mid-Unit Common Assessment Protocol
Team Response for Mid-Unit Preventions
End-of-Unit Common Assessments Protocol to Target Tier 2 Interventions
Monitor Student Learning of Essential Standards
Schedule Time for Tier 2 Interventions
Effective Use of Tier 2 Time
Increase the Effectiveness of Current Interventions
Target and Monitor Interventions for a Specific Student