WHAT DOES RTI2 LOOK LIKE AT SAN ROBERTO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?

Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2) is the practice of providing high quality instruction and intervention matched to a student’s needs. It involves frequent monitoring of student progress in order to make decisions about changes in instruction or goals.  At San Roberto International School RTI2 is not a program or a department, rather it is a framework in which all teachers, literacy experts, counselors, and principals work collaboratively.  As a team they carefully analyze data such as student work, diagnostic tests, and other screeners in order to personalize instruction and meet the individual learning needs of all students.

The RTI2 process has three tiers that build upon one another. Each tier provides more intensive levels of student support:

• Tier I includes high quality instruction for EVERY student in the classroom. The teachers provide all students with access to high quality curriculum and standards-based instruction.

• Tier II includes additional targeted instruction/interventions. The teachers provide instruction to small groups of students who need more support with specific academic skills.

• Tier III includes intensive interventions. The teachers provide 1:1 intensive instruction to meet the individual needs of student skill development to accelerate learning.

HOW DOES SAN ROBERTO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL STUDENT NEEDS?

At San Roberto International School, teachers carefully monitor student progress and when a concern is identified, they formally document the concern and start implementing specific strategies, accommodations and/or interventions to accelerate student learning.  Parents are contacted via email to ensure clear school-home communication so that they are aware of the teacher’s concerns and how they can provide support for their child at home.

When an identified student concern is on-going, the next step is that the teachers inform the school’s literacy experts, counselors, principals and/or the RTI coordinator in order to schedule a Student Support Team (SST) Meeting.  The SST meetings follow a prescribed series of steps in order to collaboratively problem-solve and come up with new strategies and/or action items to best support the student.  Working as a team this process also supports building teacher capacity as they learn about new accommodations, strategies, interventions or actions to take to support the student of concern.  Often one of many outcomes of an SST meeting is a meeting with the parents to discuss the concern in order to deepen school-home collaboration.  Parents are key to the process as they are able to provide additional information about their child that can help the educational team best support their child at school.

For more information about our successful procedures and protocols contact:
Carrie Simone Hultgreen, M.Ed.
RTI & Data Coordinator
carrie.hultgreen@sanroberto.edu.mx
sanroberto.edu.mx