I recently spoke at my local school board meeting about RTI. The school board was going to be hearing from the district about RTI and how it has been implemented in our district. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I am pretty sure almost every district in Tennessee has implemented RTI2 the way the state has "suggested" in the RTI2 manual. (I do know of one county that is writing their own.)
I want to stress here that the state RTI2 manual is a guideline. Exceptions can be made. Exceptions need to be made. Not every child fits into the box and making a child wait a full year to show very little progress is not fair to that student. I recently sat in a class about RTI2 and the presenter stated, we can see if a child isn't going to make progress after 4 data points. 4! We don't need to wait 32 weeks. We just don't.
Here is my speech. It starts 20 seconds in.
Knox County School Board RTI reality
I want to stress here that the state RTI2 manual is a guideline. Exceptions can be made. Exceptions need to be made. Not every child fits into the box and making a child wait a full year to show very little progress is not fair to that student. I recently sat in a class about RTI2 and the presenter stated, we can see if a child isn't going to make progress after 4 data points. 4! We don't need to wait 32 weeks. We just don't.
Here is my speech. It starts 20 seconds in.
Knox County School Board RTI reality
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