Current+Issues

//What current issues are you facing as leaders with respect to RTI and AIS? As a group, please capture the questions and answers discussed at your tables below. Please indicate contact people if you are willing to have others contact you for additional information.//**
 * Current Issues

Are there other regional experts we can look to for support? Hudson Valley, Sherburne Earlville, Binghamton, Reading First schools**//,//**

How do you get this started? We need some sort of handbook, model, plan...

When something is offered by SETRC, do gen ed teachers attend? RTI is a gen ed initiative. How do we get that issue across? A: One of the things we push in our BOCES is that this is an "everyone" issue. A: When going throught the SST process, having to document the issues is frustrating. They want to go directly to classification.

Q: Who is telling the building admins what needs to be happening? Somewhere, the message needs to be heard by principals. Q; Has anyone used principals' groups to get the message out? A: Yes, the Genesee principals' group has just looked at RTI. RTI is so important. We can't wait a year, or we'll miss a group of kids. But even if principals think teachers know, sometimes they have trouble articulating. PLEASE SHARE RUBRIC HERE: A: Jim Wright may have a rubric on his site. A: Speaking of buy-in, a "feeler" went out to entire district (gen ed, psychologists, etc.) and this group will disseminate info, so it's not top-down.

Q: What about those of you who are past the investigating phase. What about Year 2's? A: We are taing a close look at core instruction, at what is research-based, horizontal and vertical alignments, etc.

Q: How many have done curriculum maps? Is it a natural progression? A: I think you have to look there. You have to find redundancies...