In round two of our data review for the PROPEL Lab at LHS, we looked at all of the quantitative and qualitative data we have gathered this year and dialogued about what it meant for students, for staff and for LHS as a system.  Our focus was on the 83 targeted freshman students who had been [...]

Read this blog  from a school psychologist in Virginia who writes about how difficult RtI implementation has been to sustain when there are RIFs, school closures and other major budget cuts.  I will post her follow up when she blogs it. http://bit.ly/sl2LSr

Just read this blogpost from Elaine and I think it has some good information about what works well in an “RtI World” and what continues to be problematic. Read on:  http://www.niusileadscape.org/bl/?p=550#more-550

I am spending the day with 40+ teachers from TSD who are participating in a SIPPS training.  This is our second full year of SIPPS implementation and it is great to hear the thoughtful questions from our teachers.  Last year most of our teachers who were trained in SIPPS were instructional coaches and interventionists.  This [...]

As we are wrapping up our first quarter of the 2010-2011 school year, I have been getting many questions about progress monitoring and how to best make decisions on measures to use, how often to monitor, etc.  When we first began progress monitoring two years ago, our expectations were more standardized:  select a few students [...]

Over the past few weeks, groups of administrators and teacher leaders in Thompson have begun their work in planning for the upcoming school year.  Much of this work has revolved around school improvement and the use of the Collaborative Inquiry Cycle to assist in this planning.  This cycle is based on the work of Laura [...]

As the school year begins, opportunities for creative scheduling present themselves.  While much of the planning for how to deliver differentiated services takes place in the spring and is refined over the summer months, there are always situations that need fine tuning as the year unfolds.  The RtI Action Network has a current blog regarding this topic that [...]

As we move into our third year of RtI implementation, I am looking forward to our implementation of math interventions, social/emotional core instruction and interventions and our continuing work with assessment and data dialogues.  I would like to thank the district staff who have worked on our RtI leadership to make all of these things…and [...]

Welcome to the Thompson RtI Blog!  I will regularly comment on RtI happenings in Thompson and invite you to do the same.  This is an opportunity to share our thinking as well as to get information from in-district as well as local and national experts on RtI.