The authors of Teaching Reading to Students Who Are At Risk or Have Disabilities: A Multi-Tier, RTI Approach

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@aleciarrbIf you have a scripted curriculum&provide training (several days) &coaching you can have counselors, music teachers, coaches for 2
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Shinn today: "If 85% of students benchmark at Tier 3, you have to provide an intensive explicit Tier 3 program as the core."
Testing must be time efficient.For Adults, every minute testing is a minute away from Teaching-Students, a Minute Away from Learning.
Alan Coulter just recommended that instead of using "Implementation Fidelity" forms to instead call them "Need for Support" forms
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Powerful tool for principals and any other administrator Managing Unmanageable Students by corwin.com/books/Book9430 via @CorwinPress

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Sprick's conference recommendation: Correct CALMLY, consistently and immediately in the school setting in which the infraction occurred
Teaching reading using letter sounds ending in "uh" makes blending more difficult. Go to bit.ly/1SC90Ee scroll down&practice sounds

2nd tip from Sprick for noisy lunchroom:If imore than 2-3 minutes to get food visit 10 close schools & copy successful 1 to reduce wait time
1st Helpful tip from Sprick for noisy lunchrooms: Having students sit on only one side of the tables will immediately reduce noise level
Lessons Learned about RtI from Shinn: We all can get better every day.
Lessons Learned about RtI from Shinn: No failing in Tier 1 before you get to Tier 2
Lessons Learned about RtI from Shinn: Give teachers better tools. Give kids interventions as soon as they need them.
Lessons about RtI from Shinn: Don’t built Tier 2 Interventions on the backs of Gen Ed teachers. Don’t have Gen Ed teachers do both Tier1&2
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Lessons Learned about RtI from Shinn: Every Minute in Testing is a Minute Away from Teaching and Intervention
Lessons Learned about RtI from Shinn: Every minute in a MEETING is a minute away from teaching and intervention.
Lessons Learned about RtI from Shinn: 1 size doesn't fit all. Customize the Intervention
This is False: Duckworth and Seligman demonstrated that IQ is superior to self-discipline in predicting academic achievement of adolescents.
"Getting RtI and MTSS to the Next Level" conference in New Orleans is excellent -- speakers are motivating.
Interpreting what a reading comprehension score "means" is complicated. bit.ly/15pItlk

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Is teaching to Learning Styles Bogus? You will be surprised. bit.ly/16ujg9G

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