Core Component 8: Staff Development

The first section of websites provide multiple resources for all stake holders in the process of implementing Mutli-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) and Response to Instruction and Intervention (RtI²) in their learning environments, while the second section focuses on secondary school contexts.

1. The IRIS Center
   Provides extensive professional learning modules on several MTSS topics, including evidence-based instructional strategies. Modules can be accessed individually or with facilitated groups. Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, OSEP, ED.
   
   
2. National Center on Intensive Intervention
   Provides extensive support for educators using data-based individualization to effectively implement intensive interventions in reading, mathematics, and behavior in kindergarten through grade twelve. Includes: webinars, reviewed tool charts, videos of experts, and implementation support. (2012) OSEP, ED.

Secondary Schools Focus

The following Web sites present professional learning resources with a secondary-school emphasis.

1. Building a Master Schedule to Facilitate RTI
   Provides answers to common questions about building workable master schedules with the flexibility to respond to student needs at both elementary and secondary school levels. Facilitated by Leslie Van Kleek and Steven Vandemark (Podcast, transcript 2010) National Center for Learning Disabilities.
   
   
2. High School Resources
   Provides resources for implementing RtI at the high school level, including planning guidance, behavior and data-based decision making information, intervention examples, and adaptations for diversity. RTI Action Network, National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD).
   
   
3. Implementing Response to Intervention--Russell Middle School in Colorado Springs
   Discusses the successes, challenges, and critical RTI issues like scheduling, team problem solving, and student involvement. Featuring Colorado Principal Jeanice Swift and her staff. (YouTube; 10 min.).
   
   
4. Middle School Resources
   Provides resources for implementing RtI at the middles school level, including planning guidance, behavior and data-based decision making information, intervention examples, and adaptations for diversity. RTI Action Network, NCLD.
   
   
5. RTI at the Secondary Level
   Addresses key concerns of implementing RTI in secondary schools in this introduction. By Jay Engeln, National Secondary School Principal of the Year, 2008. (YouTube; 3 minutes).
   
   
6. Secondary Schools
   The essential components of MTSS may be the same, regardless of grade level or context, but how they are translated into effective practice and integrated into a middle or high school’s processes may differ from elementary school models. Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports, American Institutes for Research.