State News And Events
New York Holds a Number of Trainings Focused on RTI
New York State recently held a number of trainings across the state focused on RTI. Dr. Daryl Mellard from the University and Kansas and a NCRTI co-principal investigator, presented on “Scaling up RTI to the Middle School: Issues, Challenges and Exemplary Models” along with Dr. Theresa M. Janczak from the NYS RtI-Technical Assistance Center on October 13, 2011. Dr. Rebecca Zumeta, the Technical Assistance Coordinator for the NCRTI, presented on “Tiered Interventions and RTI in High Schools: Preliminary Lessons Learned” at the Designing Interventions that Match Student Needs: Assessing Students' Response to Instruction Leads to More Effective Classrooms conference held at Hofstra University on October 14, 2011. Additionally, Dr. Julie Esparza-Brown presented on RTI and ELLs and Jeanne Wanzek from the Florida Center for Reading Research presented on the core curriculum in a presentation titled “How Healthy is Your Core? Examining Your School’s Core Reading Program in a RTI Framework.” For more information on RTI in New York, visit the New York State Response to Intervention Technical Assistance Center.
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Resources From Our Partners
Center on Instruction Webinar - Connecting RTI to New Priorities: Aligning Educational Initiatives
Understanding how RTI aligns with other initiatives is important and a challenge that states, districts, and schools are facing. In this webinar, the Center on Instruction (COI) discusses how RTI can align with School Improvement Grants, Common Core State Standards, and the ever changing student population. The webinar includes information from previous working meetings, suggests discussion questions that could be used to stimulate ideas, provides planning templates, and highlights additional resources. The archived webinar is available here, and the PowerPoint presentation and handouts are also available on COI’s website.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and the Texas Education Agency provide “A Resource for Student Evaluation Personnel in Schools Implementing Response to Intervention (RtI)”
This resource is targeted at student evaluation personnel (educational diagnosticians, school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, remedial reading teachers, and other specialists) who collect, analyze, and report information to committees making instructional decisions. The document focuses on key RTI concepts and legislation, the roles of student evaluation personnel at the school level, and how RTI information can be used for individual student evaluation. The document also provides links to additional references, resources, and tools. You can view this resource on the Meadows Center website.
What Works Clearinghouse Expands Special Needs Area to Include Interventions for Children Classified as Having an Emotional Disturbance
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is now conducting reviews of research on interventions that focus on the academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs of K–12 students classified as having or being at risk for emotional disturbance. This new focus aims to help educators make important decisions about curricula, supplemental products, and classroom methods for students with these special needs. The reviews aim to help teachers understand which interventions are effective in addressing the behavioral, academic, emotional, and/or social needs of students classified as having or being at risk for emotional disturbance, and whether the effectiveness of an intervention differs depending on varying student needs. Search interventions focused on students with special needs on the WWC website.
National Center for Learning Disabilities Launches Toolkit in Spanish
The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) recently released a toolkit in Spanish that aims to help families recognize potential signs of LD, work with their children to develop and enhance skills, and be an advocate for their children who are getting ready for school as well as those who are enrolled in K-12 education settings. This comprehensive toolkit includes over 30 articles on a variety of topics, worksheets, and an interactive LD Checklist. Find the toolkit and other resources on their website.
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