academy 1: overview of culturally responsive response to intervention
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Academy 1: Overview of Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention. Introductions Facilitators and Sponsors. Introductions National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems NCCRESt www.nccrest.org. What’s in an Educational System?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Academy 1: Academy 1: Overview of Culturally Overview of Culturally
Responsive Response to Responsive Response to InterventionIntervention
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IntroductionsIntroductionsNational Center for National Center for
Culturally Responsive Culturally Responsive Educational SystemsEducational Systems
NCCREStNCCRESt
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What are Culturally Responsive What are Culturally Responsive Educational Systems?Educational Systems?
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OutcomesOutcomesAs a result of the activities and information shared at this
Leadership Academy, module participants will:
• Become familiar with the basic structures and features of culturally responsive RTI with a focus on ensuring that general education provides robust, high quality opportunities to learn for all students
• Get acquainted with research that supports literacy instruction for learners who are culturally and linguistically diverse
• Learn to strengthen general education systems to meet the needs of diverse learners through educators’ professional learning towards culturally responsive practices.
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AgendaAgenda15 min Introductions, Greetings, & Warm-UpIntroductions, Greetings, & Warm-Up40 min40 min Activity 1: Opportunities to LearnActivity 1: Opportunities to Learn20 min20 min Lecturette 1: Foundations of Culturally Lecturette 1: Foundations of Culturally
Responsive Response to Intervention Responsive Response to Intervention (RTI)(RTI)
40 min40 min Activity 2: Activity 2: Assessing High Quality Assessing High Quality Instruction and Learning Opportunities Instruction and Learning Opportunities
10 min10 min BreakBreak20 min20 min Lecturette 2: Structure and Components Lecturette 2: Structure and Components
of a Culturally Responsive Early of a Culturally Responsive Early Intervening and Universal Interventions Intervening and Universal Interventions TierTier
20 min20 min Activity 3: Activity 3: Designing Culturally Designing Culturally Responsive Literacy InstructionResponsive Literacy Instruction
30 min30 min Leave-taking and FeedbackLeave-taking and Feedback
Activity 1: Opportunities to Activity 1: Opportunities to LearnLearn
Participants will identify and discuss opportunities that promote learning. This activity provides a forum to discuss current opportunities provided for student learning across the continuum from classroom level to the school level.
Activity Takes 30 Minutes
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Lecturette 1Lecturette 1
Foundations of Culturally Foundations of Culturally Responsive Response to Responsive Response to Intervention (RTI)Intervention (RTI)
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Culturally Responsive Culturally Responsive is…is…the valuation, consideration, and integration of individuals’ culture, language, heritage and experiences leading to supported learning and development.
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Guiding Assumption Guiding Assumption of Culturally of Culturally Responsive RTI:Responsive RTI:Creating New Hope Creating New Hope & Opportunities to & Opportunities to LearnLearn
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Guiding Assumption of Guiding Assumption of Culturally Responsive RTI: Culturally Responsive RTI: Rejection of Deficit Labeling Rejection of Deficit Labeling of Studentsof Students
Guiding Assumption of Guiding Assumption of Culturally Responsive RTI: Culturally Responsive RTI: Inclusive Intervention DeliveryInclusive Intervention Delivery
Interventions
Special Education
General Education Classroom
Guiding Assumption of Guiding Assumption of Culturally Responsive RTI: Culturally Responsive RTI: “Problem-Solving” RTI “Problem-Solving” RTI Frameworks Allow for More Frameworks Allow for More Context-Informed Intervention Context-Informed Intervention DesignDesign“We assert that the emphasis
on the student’s response to an intervention or interventions, shift to an emphasis on the importance of the interventions as responsive to the child,” (Harris-Murri, King, & Rostenberg, 2006, p. 9.)
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AddressingAddressing Opportunities Opportunities to Learn:to Learn: A Nested SystemA Nested System
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Focus on the Focus on the ClassroomClassroom
What students &teachers bring
with them
What’s alreadythere
The work peopledo together
Cultures in the ClassroomCultures in the Classroom
The Classroom CultureThe Classroom Culture Classroom CulturesClassroom Cultures
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AddressingAddressing Opportunities to Opportunities to LearnLearn
Classrooms
What’s alreadythere
Family Participation in Teaching & Learning
Group Practices &
Professional Development
Learning Assessment
Learning Standards
Teaching Design & Practice
What students &teachers bring
with them
The work peopledo together
Activity 2: Assessing High QualityActivity 2: Assessing High QualityInstruction and Learning Instruction and Learning OpportunitiesOpportunities
Participants will apply their prior and new knowledge to the assessment of needs and design of supports for a student and his teachers.
Activity Takes 30 Minutes
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Lecturette 2Lecturette 2
Structure and Structure and Components of a Components of a Culturally Responsive Culturally Responsive Universal Interventions Universal Interventions TierTier
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Core Processes within Core Processes within RTIRTI
Cultu
reEquity
Assess Student Assess Student LearningLearning
Tune InstructionalTune InstructionalDecisionsDecisions
Provide High Quality Provide High Quality Learning OpportunitiesLearning Opportunities
StudentStudentLearningLearning
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Culturally Responsive Culturally Responsive RTIRTI
Assess Student Assess Student LearningLearning
Tune InstructionalTune InstructionalDecisionsDecisions
Provide High Quality Provide High Quality Learning OpportunitiesLearning Opportunities
StudentStudentLearningLearning
EquityCultu
re
Culturally Responsive
Intervention
Robust Evidence-
Based Instruction
Teachers Who
Produce Results for
Diverse Students
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Tier 1 of Culturally Responsive RTI: Tier 1 of Culturally Responsive RTI: Universal InterventionsUniversal Interventions
Cultu
reEquity
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Opportunities to Learn in Opportunities to Learn in Tier 1Tier 1
Assess Student Assess Student LearningLearning
Tune Instructional Tune Instructional DecisionsDecisions
Provide High Quality Provide High Quality Learning Learning
OpportunitiesOpportunities
StudentStudentLearningLearningCul
ture
Equity
Robust Evidence-Based Robust Evidence-Based LiteracyLiteracyCurriculum & Instruction in Tier Curriculum & Instruction in Tier
11
EquityCultu
re•Beyond isolated reading skills•Other curricular dimensions
funds of knowledge hidden curriculum
social organization of learning
Robust Evidence-Based Robust Evidence-Based LiteracyLiteracyCurriculum & Instruction in Tier Curriculum & Instruction in Tier
11
Small group instruction
Application of phonics within authentic literacy activities
Questioning and participation
promoted higher level thinking and home
involvement
Cultu
re
Equity
Reading is not only a skills-based approach……it is a social activity
Robust Evidence-Based Robust Evidence-Based LiteracyLiteracyCurriculum & Instruction in Tier Curriculum & Instruction in Tier
11
Build content over time
Strengthen vocabulary with many practice
opportunities with same theme
Allow for strong connections across
the curriculum
EquityCultu
re
Thematic units
Culturally Responsive Culturally Responsive Literacy Intervention in Tier Literacy Intervention in Tier
11
Build content over time
Strengthen vocabulary with many practice
opportunities with same theme
Allow for strong connections across
the curriculum
•Students’ prior knowledge•Explicit instruction
•Supportive environment•Structured practice
Cultu
re
Equity
Results-Producing Teachers in Tier 1: Results-Producing Teachers in Tier 1: Utilizing Progress Monitoring Tools in Utilizing Progress Monitoring Tools in
Culturally Responsive WaysCulturally Responsive Ways
Progress Monitoring:
How do I measure:Teaching?Learning?
What students already know?
Culturally Responsive Educators’ Reflections
EquityCultu
re
Do I need to:
Change the organizational structure of my
classroom in order to accommodate more intensive literacy
instruction?
Add more verbal sound in general or
other kinds of experiences
throughout the day to build sound
symbol relationships?
Change the materials that students read or talk about in order to
make them more meaningful to them?
Culturally Responsive Educators’ Reflections
Results-Producing Teachers in Tier 1: Results-Producing Teachers in Tier 1: Utilizing Progress Monitoring Tools in Utilizing Progress Monitoring Tools in
Culturally Responsive WaysCulturally Responsive WaysCul
ture
Equity
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Culturally Responsive Culturally Responsive RTIRTI
Assess Student Assess Student LearningLearning
Tune InstructionalTune InstructionalDecisionsDecisions
Provide High Quality Provide High Quality Learning OpportunitiesLearning Opportunities
StudentLearning
Cultu
reEquity
Activity 3: Designing Culturally Activity 3: Designing Culturally Responsive Literacy InterventionsResponsive Literacy Interventions
This activity will introduce participants to information about culturally responsive literacy instruction.
Activity Takes 30 Minutes
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