| 1. | 2/5/2008 2:32:00 PM | As long as the focus is ALL learners, including gifted and high achieving student needs. |
| 2. | 3/19/2008 7:20:00 PM | I've always felt this was an essential componenet of what we should be doing to help kids learn, even before I ever heard the term, "RTI". But why only in reading and math...why not all subject areas, and who is going to be responsible for all the documentation and additional workload? Staff needa additional inservice on implementing this goal. |
| 3. | 4/7/2008 9:56:00 PM | This new and required method of providing intervetnions will necessitate a new way of operation and a reallocation of resources. It will not allow to maintain the old ways and just adding more. This is a big change in mindset that will take time and resources. |
| 4. | 4/8/2008 12:31:00 AM | Not too sure how this really affects the HS |
| 5. | 4/8/2008 1:03:00 PM | There appears to still be little understanding on how this will effect general education staff. |
| 6. | 4/8/2008 12:26:00 PM | I am concerned about how this will actually look and what we will have to give up in order to make this work. Our budget will only go so far. |
| 7. | 4/8/2008 12:18:00 PM | I have no idea what RtI is. |
| 8. | 4/8/2008 3:02:00 PM | In theory a great idea. But How? When? It feels like it will be very time consumimg. |
| 9. | 4/8/2008 4:21:00 PM | alternative schools, alternative schedules, alternative ways to allocate personnel, advanced students can have more autonomy, give options to students where they take more ownership in their learning, student choices need to be more varied, let them select where they need to be, blocking hte scheudle or changing it froma traditional one would help immensely with this allocation of resources, |
| 10. | 4/8/2008 4:59:00 PM | What districts currently have something like this in place? What sort of training will we have BEFORE we put this into practice? Often times an edict is declared and then the training follows. |
| 11. | 4/8/2008 7:58:00 PM | Absolutely a priority for academic success which is our primary goal. |
| 12. | 4/8/2008 10:05:00 PM | This is a low priority if it is being done MAINLY to answer No Child Left Behind. It is also a low priority for taking money away from other items. |
| 13. | 4/9/2008 5:14:00 PM | I like the idea of what is trying to be done with RTI. However, I am concerned about how it will be implimented. It sounds as if it will require a significant amount of teacher time to work with relatively small groups of kis in each class area. I am not sure how we will be able to find the time to impliment this stratagy with current staffing levels and scheduals. It will either take time out of preperation time, other supervisions or before or after school. Will there be compensation for that extra time? |
| 14. | 4/10/2008 1:16:00 PM | RTI is a movement that is obviously staring districts in the face today. It is a valuable move toward providing a quality education for all students. However, when RTI is rolled out, it certainly needs to provide more answers than questions for those responsible for implementing it. It seems like, at least from my perspective, we still haven't moved far enough on our curriculum alignment work to necessitate a working model for RTI yet. We still have not completely decided what needs to be taught, and while intervention is important, it seems that content needs to be solidified in the minds of nearly ALL educators in the district first (for each level/subject) before we can move on to a new initiative. To be honest, as a young teacher, I've heard many older/experienced teachers refer to the idea that we need to just "wait it out" because in a few years the district will be on to some new initiative and we won't have to whole heartedly embrace this initiative. If we move to quickly into RTI without first focusing on completing our objectives now on curriculum alignment, it will further this problematic technique of avoidance utilized to deal with change. I say, finish what you've started, and in the mean time the administration can be working out the kinks of the next initiative instead of rolling out the next big thing without any real vision for it (I'm referencing the presentation at the high school staff meeting about RTI that was painted a great initiative in a rather negative light). |
| 15. | 4/10/2008 4:36:00 PM | lots of focus/resources is given to special ed - where does that leave the middle and high end students? What is done to foster and nurture the potential of middle and high end students? |
| 16. | 4/10/2008 6:13:00 PM | If this is going to be a state requirement, we have heard very little about it, especially in concern with the increased requirements on regular classroom teachers. Training will have to be an ultimate priority in this, which includes time to learn the process. |