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Chapter 3 Action Steps
Tier 3. It is our hope that the tools and next steps provided in this chapter will assist you with this work. As you move forward, we urge you to hold fast to the goal of all students learning at high levels. Make your actions match your beliefs, and move forward in changing the lives of students who depend on you.
Chapter 3 Action Steps
With your team, engage in the following action steps to review and implement the learning from this chapter. 1. When using figure 3.1, Building a Site Intervention Team (page 57), note that the third column is titled Staff Members Best Trained to Meet This Need. Few schools are so blessed to have full-time staff in each essential role listed in the first column. So, ask yourself who is the best person on your campus, readily available, to take on each of these roles? For example, perhaps your school does not have a fulltime reading specialist. Do you have a teacher at your school who was formerly a special education teacher, has a master’s degree in reading, or has a reading specialist certificate? 2. Prioritize your next steps. After reading this chapter, you will probably have identified numerous next steps for both the leadership team and intervention team. Revisit the 1-2-3 action planning activity (see page 68). Make a list of goals for each team, and then prioritize your lists. What tasks must teams do immediately? What tasks can teams do over the course of the current school year? What things will probably need to wait until next school year? Don’t spend too much time on tasks that are more than a semester away. Instead, intensely plan for those tasks teams can accomplish immediately.
at Tier 3
In Best Practices at Tier 3: Intensive Interventions for Remediation, Elementary, authors Paula Rogers, W. Richard Smith, Austin Buffum, and Mike Mattos provide grades K–5 educators with research-based response to intervention (RTI) strategies to meet the needs of students who have fallen the furthest behind in the classroom. The authors explain how the RTI at Work™ model helps educators ensure struggling elementary students grasp what they are currently learning as well as the basic, foundational skills from previous school years they have yet to master. Using this guide, educators will ascertain how to improve their school’s Tier 3 intensive interventions so that they give these students the support they need to learn at the highest levels. Readers will:
ᐁ Discover fundamental practices to support students through the schoolwide RTI at Work model ᐁ Understand school leadership and intervention teams’ roles in effectively implementing Tier 3 ᐁ Learn how to design and deliver assessments and instruction that utilize best practices ᐁ Examine the importance of teaching essential academic and social behaviors and obtain strategies for delivering intensive behavior interventions at Tier 3 ᐁ Gain activities and tools they can apply in the classroom to further student learning “In Best Practices at Tier 3, Elementary, the authors provide specific, proven instructional practices and processes that will immediately improve a school’s Tier 3 intensive interventions. This book calls out the roles and responsibilities of a school’s leadership and intervention teams to identify and support students’ targeted needs, prioritize resources, and ensure proper intervention intensity. I was able to take these actions and immediately implement them in the schools I support.”
—John Hannigan
Executive Leadership Coach, Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, California
“This essential guide provides the answers for schools and districts challenged by the question ‘What makes Tier 3 effective?’ In Best Practices at Tier 3, Elementary, the authors offer helpful strategies and case studies that clearly articulate how to build Tier 3 systems and supports on a strong foundation of Tier 1. Intentional, actionable, and real life . . . this book provides educators with the tools they need to ensure stakeholders are committed to the success of all students.”
—Vanessa Hilton
Chief Academic Officer, Pasco County Schools, Florida
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