1. What Should RTI Look Like in a Department of Juvenile Justice School?
November 4, 2011

2. OCI Standards
4.12 An RTI Committee reviews the progress of each student, analyzes the data collected, and makes referrals according to the Georgia Pyramid of Interventions.

3. OCI Standards
4.13 A Student Support Team develops instructional services for students experiencing problems of an academic, social, or behavioral nature and serves as a resource for teachers and other educators in the delivery of these services.

4. OCI Standards
4.14 An operational and active 504 Committee, with a designated coordinator, identifies, evaluates and services students.

5. Performance Objective
By the end of this meeting, participants will have solutions to the three most common RTI issues being experienced in DJJ.

6. Essential Question
What should RTI look like in a Department of Juvenile Justice school?

7. Common Issues 1. Interventions are not research-based
2. Documentation is missing or incomplete/ No evidence of school-wide participation
3. Files not being transferred between facilities with the student

8. Interventions
Common Question: Where do I get research-based interventions?
DJJ has provided the following:
Concise Curriculum
TABE Success (Language and Math)
Mentoring Minds

9. Concise Curriculum Can be used on Tier II or III
Used in Social Skills/Elective Class
Used for students with behavior/anger issues
Combines Social Skills, Reading, Language Arts, and Math Problem Solving
Also useful for motivating students with short attention spans

10. TABE Success Can be used on Tiers II or III
Available for Language Arts and Math
Contains several levels with 7-10 activities
Great for use as an evaluation instrument to identify a need for further assessment
(Tier III)

11. Mentoring Minds
Contains hundreds of research-based strategies for all three tiers
Strategies for both academic and behavior interventions

12. My Favorites Tier III Behavioral:
Have a mentor or coach (a favorite teacher) meet at the beginning and end of each day with a student who is receiving interventions to review goals, monitor progress toward reaching those goals, and provide reinforcement.
Develop a BIP based on the results of assessments and collected data (enlist the help of your SSP or special education teachers!)

13. My Favorites Cont’d
Pages 87 and 89 in the Mentoring Minds Teacher Guide Book contain a Behavior Monitoring Individual Report and a Behavior Monitoring Graph.
These two documents completed by EVERY classroom teacher along with a behavior contract proves school-wide participation in RTI

14. Coming Soon…. Instruction for Targeted Success
Will be available as a computer program as well as pencil and paper assignments

15. Additional Research-based Interventions
Interventions separated by content area, behavioral
Behavioral includes strategies for the “unmotivated” student

16. Tracking Sheets
When using TABE Success, Concise Curriculum, etc., teachers should make a note on the student’s tracking sheet:
“CAP 18 substituted with Lesson 4.1 TABE Success per RTI Tier II”

17. Documentation Missing or Incomplete
Who collects data at the Tier I level?
If math is the problem, only the math teacher
If Reading is the problem, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies
If behavior or motivation is the problem, all teachers

18. Data Collections Students are screened within 10 days.
Data Collections begin immediately
At the end of 6 weeks, have a meeting to discuss the student’s progress
At this point, you may discontinue data collections, move a student to Tier II, or continue data collections for a specified amount of time

19. Data Collections
The Chairperson should collect the data collection forms at the end of 6 weeks and keep the forms in the master notebook for future reference as long as the student remains at that facility.

20. Data Collections
Teachers should have the data collections filled out completely!
Do not leave blank spaces. Each teacher should include the number of AEPM referrals, DRs, card color, etc.

21. Collecting Forms Forms are collected:
at the end of the specified time (6 weeks Tier 1, 5 weeks Tier II)
when a student is transferred to another facility
final release

22. Collecting Forms
RTI files must be sent to receiving facilities within three school days.

23. Documentation
In the event that you are unable to collect data forms within three days, a chain of authority has been established:
Chairperson
Principal/Lead Teacher TA
Regional Principal

24. Documentation Checklist
Additionally, Regional Principals are going to begin spot-checks of RTI data collections during their visits.
Each teacher should have a notebook with data collection forms, Tier II Progress Monitoring, SST Education Plans, and 504 accommodations.
Please provide all of the teachers at your site a copy of the documentation checklist so that they are prepared!

25. Leadership Team
Needs Analysis
Share your concerns

26. OCI Standards
Requirements for meeting the standards

27. OCI Two little extras: Students moving backward through the tiers
Summary Sheets

28. Workshop
Checking the files
Share your favorite interventions