Identify next steps
needed in your district or school to prepare for use of this approach.
There
are two things I would like to see done to help facilitate effective RtI at the
high school. One of them
is a real effort to identify root causes.
As was emphasized in the webinars, when students are not being successful
it is important to identify the root causes so that we can try to address those
rather than the side effects of the root causes. This can be a very challenging task, and
likely we will not succeed every time.
Currently
I feel as though we often address behavior issues with academic
interventions. These attempts to
intervene do not get at the root cause and therefore do not actually help solve
the problem. So even though it will be
challenging to identify the root causes, and even more challenging to provide
interventions, it gives more hope of success than what we currently have in
place.
The
other thing I would like to see happen in order to facilitate effective RtI at
the high school is implementing an enrichment/intervention period during our
day. I can see many ways of making this
work, but all of them would be a challenge to set up and implement. All staff would need to be involved to make
it successful and all would need to be committed to making it valuable for
students. The enrichment opportunities
would have to be things that students would be interested and willing to dig in
to that are more than and outside of what they get in the classroom. The intervention classes would have to be
additional instruction for the students, not study hall.
I
believe implementation of these two things could have a drastic effect on the
success of many students at our school.
They would both take a lot of work, but they would show that our focus
is on the students and creating a system that supports them as learners.
What changes would you make if you could to help implement appropriate response to intervention?
-Kathryn
#MTBoS30
12/30
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