RTI/MTSS Synopses - A summary of best practices at an elementary school and a secondary school
Implementing RTI/MTSS can be daunting - there are so many moving parts. It is important that staff are aligned on what all those parts are, and how they come together. These synopses are good examples of how to align actions and definitions across staff in an elementary and secondary setting.
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Identify Struggling Students
Use universal screeners or benchmarking exams to find students who are in need of extra learning support
Collect Teacher Observations
Understand student strengths & challenges across academic, cognitive, social-emotional and behavioral skills
Find Learning Supports
Meet each student's challenges head-on with evidence-based interventions matched to their needs
Plan and Monitor Progress
Create collaborative intervention plans, track progress and communicate easily across staff and family
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Demonstrated improvement.
Nationally normed universal screener scores showed statistically significant marked improvement in reading and math for students supported with Branching Minds.
Improve effectiveness of RTI and MTSS implementation, reduce burden of documentation.
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Understand whole learner’s strengths and challenges: academic, cognitive, social emotional and behavioral
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Increase collaboration amongst all stakeholders (teachers, family and student)
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Scaffold the use of matched evidence-based interventions, best practices of RTI / MTSS and effective differentiation
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Cut meeting and prep time in half!
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Meet student intervention goals more frequently/quickly
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Connect all the dots easily and visually
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