CAN 
US/GlobalRTI at Work™ Model Agenda
Luis F. Cruz
Utilizing the Necessary Context to Understand and Embrace the RTI at Work™ Process
We depend on today’s schools to help all students learn at grade level or higher. But what if schools were never established with that purpose in mind? What if the desire to “go back to normal” after the pandemic is not what schools need to ensure equitable learning for all students?
Paula Maeker
Essential Learning: Our Promise of Equity, Purpose, and Practice
Paula Maeker helps teams build a learning pathway that establishes a framework for prevention, intervention, and acceleration. In this way, educators can systematically respond by name, standard, target, strength, and need when students do not learn.
Nicole M. Dimich
Assessment: Powerful Information to Increase Student Learning
Assessment is a process teams use to analyze student learning and instructional practices to collectively respond to each student’s unique needs. Participants review critical understandings and strategies that collaborative teams use to improve student results, not merely measuring and recording them.
Mike Mattos
Building the Pyramid: How to Create a Highly Effective, Multitiered System of Supports
Mike Mattos and the RTI at Work faculty discuss the essential elements to systematically provide supplemental Tier 2 and intensive Tier 3 interventions for academics and behavior. He shares how to employ teacher teams and support staff to make this work doable.
Paula Maeker
Finding Solutions: A Systemwide Response to Behavior Interventions
Teacher teams and campus leaders learn to create systemwide responses to help students monitor their progress in academic and behavior targets at tiers 1, 2, and 3. Participants learn to develop structures to implement positive behavior intervention and supports. The session focuses on helping teacher teams and students reach academic and social behavior goals in the classroom and beyond.
Paula Maeker & Mike Mattos
Putting It All Together: Creating a Multitiered System of Supports—Elementary
Participants learn to create a multitiered system of intervention for elementary schools. Based on the guiding principles of RTI at Work, this process includes embedded Tier 1 core support, targeted Tier 2 supplemental help, and intensive Tier 3 interventions.
Luis F. Cruz
Putting It All Together: Creating a Multitiered System of Supports—Secondary
Participants in this session learn to create a multitiered intervention system for secondary schools. Based on the guiding principles of RTI at Work, the process includes embedded Tier 1 core support, targeted Tier 2 supplemental help, and intensive Tier 3 interventions.
Mike Mattos
Eating the Elephant: Transforming Ideas Into Action
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Implementing RTI can be daunting. The key is to break the process into meaningful steps. Mike Mattos assists participants in creating practical action steps to implement the four Cs of RTI: collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access. Participants leave with a workable implementation plan and the inspiration to get started.
Luis F. Cruz
Time for Change: Creating a Culture of Accountability Amid Irrational Resistance to Change
When we build a case on why RTI at Work is the right course, some resistance is natural. Typically, leaders deal with rational educators who eventually embrace the process. Yet occasionally, they cannot sway some staff members. Dealing with irrational resistance is a challenge. Despite best practices and generous support, some staff members refuse to participate. As a result, failure to hold individuals accountable stifles RTI at Work implementation.
Paula Maeker
It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School
What does an effective elementary school intervention process look like? Paula Maeker offers proven intervention strategies, including creating a schoolwide process that identifies students for extra help and makes time for intervention and extension within the master schedule.
Mike Mattos
It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Secondary School
What does an effective secondary school intervention process look like? Mike Mattos offers proven intervention strategies, including creating a schoolwide process that identifies students for extra help and makes time for intervention and extension within the master schedule.
