RtI Reboot: Asset-Based Approaches to Support ALL Learners

Are your RtI processes focused on students’ assets or deficits?  Is the data you use to make important instructional decisions multi-faceted?  Are you nimble in your approaches and responses to meeting students’ needs?  Curriculum directors, principals, instructional coaches, specialists, and teachers -- please join me as we ask and answer these important questions, and more, when designing instructional responses to support all learners. 

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What's Our Response?

I’m really excited to announce the release of my new book, What’s Our Response? Creating Systems and Structures to Support ALL Learners! To order, click the image below or use THIS LINK. A BIG thank you to FIRST Educational Resources for the collaboration, support and publication of this book. To order multiple copies of thE book at a discounted price, please send an email to info@firsteducation-us.com.

In education time is never on our side. Too much time is being spent in meetings to discuss students’ deficits and not enough time harnessing their assets. Students come to school each day with individual and collective wants and needs, and it’s our job to harness who and where they are. The RtI process doesn’t have to be a machine model approach with an over-reliance on short sided skill and drill; it can be a dynamic, flexible, in-the-moment response focused on good instruction. This book explores how to keep students at the center of decision-making so that the focus is fidelity to our students instead of fidelity to content, curriculum or program by addressing 5 Problems of Practice with RtI which include:

• We need to break out of the RtI box.

• We need to honor and increase teacher autonomy and agency.

• We need child study teams focused on students’ assets.

• We need to increase students’ thinking and doing time.

• We need good instruction because that makes the best interventions.

This book is filled with dozens of ready-to-use, solution-oriented tools to create asset-based responses that support ALL learners!

I’m currently scheduling consulting for this summer and next school year — both in person and remote options depending on travel restrictions, guidelines, school needs and budgets. Reach out if you’d like to discuss ways I can support your efforts in creating asset-based responses across classrooms and Tiers OR any other professional learning opportunities.