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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Urgency of the Moment
Chapter 1: The RTI at Work Pyramid
Part One: Tier 1 Essential Actions
Chapter 2: A Culture of Collective Responsibility
Chapter 3: Tier 1 Teacher Team Essential Actions
Chapter 4: Tier 1 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions
Part Two: Tier 2 Essential Actions
Chapter 5: Tier 2 Teacher Team Essential Actions
Chapter 6: Tier 2 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions
Part Three: Tier 3 Essential Actions
Chapter 7: Tier 3 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions
Chapter 8: Tier 3 Intervention Team Essential Actions
Epilogue: Get Started . . . Then Get Better

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Chapter 2: A Culture of Collective Responsibility

• Building a School Guiding Coalition
• Application for the Position of School Guiding Coalition Member
• Team Charter
• Meeting Agenda Template
• Creating Consensus for a Culture of Collective Responsibility
• Creating Consensus Survey
• Forces at Work
• Simplifying RTI Culture Survey
• Building Consensus for Change and Bell Schedule Chart
• Are We a Group or a Team?
• Stages of Team Development
• Team Action-Planning Template
• The Trust on Our Team Survey
• Team Collaboration Time: Planning Guide and Schedule
• Steps for Establishing Team Norms
• Sample Team Norms
• Understanding the Whys
• Tilling the Soil

Chapter 3: Tier 1 Teacher Team Essential Actions

• Process for Selecting Essential Standards
• Essential Standards Chart
• Unit Assessment Plan
• Sample Grade 3 Mathematics Unit Assessment Plan
• Sample Grade 9 ELA Unit Assessment Plan
• Deconstructing Standards
• Sample Grade 9 ELA End-of-Unit Assessment
• Assessment Design Checklist
• CFA 1: Grade 9 ELA Unit—Developing Claims and Counterclaims
• CFA 2: Grade 2 Mathematics Unit—Two-Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
• Sample Grade 9 ELA Reflection for a Common Formative Assessment
• Sample Grade 7 Mathematics End-of-Unit Reflection for Proportions
• Student Reflection Planning Tool
• Sample Data From Grade 9 ELA Common Formative Assessment: Writing an Argument
• Team Protocol for Analyzing Common Assessment Data
• Team Response to Common Formative Assessment
• Team Protocol for Reviewing Student Work to Plan Tier 1 or Tier 2 Responses
• Essential Standards Student Tracking Chart

Chapter 4: Tier 1 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions

• Ensuring Access to Essential Grade-Level Curriculum
• Our School’s Preliminary Essential Academic and Social Behaviors
• Balanced Assessment: Types and Purposes
• Types of Assessment Data to Inform System Effectiveness
• Proficiency Rubric
• Report Card Discussion
• Grading Reflection
• Process for the Guiding Coalition to Draft Grading Practices and Policies
• Preventions to Proactively Support Student Success

Chapter 5: Tier 2 Teacher Team Essential Actions

• RTI at Work Pro-Solve Intervention Targeting Process: Tier 1 and Tier 2
• KASAB Chart
• Immediate Prerequisite Skills Plan: Grade 4 ELA Example
• Immediate Prerequisite Skills Planning Template
• RTI at Work Pro-Solve Intervention Monitoring Plan: Tier 1 and Tier 2
• Creating a Tiered Task Card to Extend Student Learning

Chapter 6: Tier 2 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions

• Creating Flexible Time Worksheet: Critical Considerations
• Using Flexible Time Well
• Establishing a Process for Schoolwide Student Intervention Identification
• Tier 2 Menu of Response Options
• Reasons Why Students Might Fail to Complete Homework
• Tier 2 Interventions for Essential Social and Academic Behaviors: Critical Questions

Chapter 7: Tier 3 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions

• Building a Site Intervention Team
• Dimensions of Success
• Universal Screening Planning Guide
• RTI at Work Pro-Solve Reinforcement Targeting Process: Tier 3
• RTI at Work Pro-Solve Reinforcement Monitoring Plan: Tier 3
• Intervention or Reinforcement Evaluation and Alignment Chart
• Intervention or Reinforcement Evaluation and Alignment Chart Protocol

Chapter 8: Tier 3 Intervention Team Essential Actions

• Ensuring Proper Intensity for Tier 3 Reinforcements
• Special Education Identification: Critical Questions
• RTI at Work Essential Actions for Tiers 1, 2, and 3

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Websites

Introduction

• AllThingsPLC

Chapter 2

• Are we a group or a team? 2006 Getting Results Conference—The impact of one, the power of many [Handout]

Chapter 3

• Common Core State Standards for mathematics
• Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects

Chapter 4

• AllThingsPLC

Chapter 5

• Our Hands Originated in Earth’s Oceans at Least 380 Million Years Ago, ‘Missing Link’ Fossil Fish Reveals
• Depth-of-knowledge levels for four content areas

Chapter 6

• AllThingsPLC

Chapter 7

• Facilitative leadership: Balancing the dimensions of success

Chapter 8

• National School Reform Faculty
• School Reform Initiative
• Protocols