PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Pyramid Response to Intervention

How to:

1. •Implement RTI on the foundation of a professional learning community
   

2. •Create three tiers of interventions
   

3. •Identify what a successful RTI program looks like
   

RESOURCES

Book

Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities,

and How to Respond When Kids Don't Learn

Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, Chris Weber, Solution Tree, 2008

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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Nuts and Bolts of Building Professional Learning Communities

How to:

1. •Create the conditions to start a PLC
   

2. •Find time for collaboration
   

3. •Build the social conditions to support a community of practice
   

4. •Facilitate meetings to build an effective PLC
   

RESOURCES

Articles (click the title to download pdf)

1. *Building Professional Learning Communities in Schools; Kruse, Seashore-Louis, and Bryk; Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools; University of Wisconsin - Madison; Spring 1994
   

2. *Finding Time for Teams; Johnston, Knight, and Miller; Journal of Staff Development – National Staff Development Council; Spring 2007
   

1. *Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for School Reform , Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider, ASCD March 2003 | Volume 60 | Number 6, Creating Caring Schools pp 40-45
   

2. *A Learning Community is Built on Trust , Valerie Von Frank, The Learning Principal
   National Staff Development Council, Volume 4, No. 7, April 2009
   

3. *Trust Factors, Teachers Teaching Teachers, National Staff Development Council, October 2009
   

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USING DATA

Using Performance Data to Increase Student Learning

How to:

1. •Establish a comprehensive assessment system that includes screening, diagnosis, progress monitoring and program assessments.
   

2. •Analyze student performance data from the AIMSweb system and other tools, and identify the most important and efficient reports
   

3. •Monitor progress for students at risk and decide if interventions are working
   

4. •Understand mid-year data trends
   

RESOURCES

Articles

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Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades.pdf (54 pages)

Alaska data protocol.pdf (9 pages)

A Comprehensive K-3 Reading Assessment Plan.pdf (24 pages)       

Measure for Measure:  A Critical Consumers’ Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents.pdf (50 pages)

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