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Response to Intervention (RTI) Assessment Strategies Seminars: Educators as Physicians
Schools across the country are adopting a new way of serving students using a process called Response to Intervention (RTI). In RTI models, educators are asked to administer increasing numbers of reading assessments in order to screen, diagnose and monitor students.
Seminar Agenda
| 8:00– 8:30 |
Registration & coffee |
| 8:30– 10:00 |
 Rationale and purpose for reading assessments Using the SAILS* model for Response to Intervention (RTI) Using data to make decisions about our students |
| 10:15– 11:30 |
Screening assessments Diagnostic assessments |
| 11:30– 1:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:00– 2:00 |
Progress monitoring assessments |
| 2:15– 3:30 |
Hands-on practice: Interpreting data from assessments to make informed instructional decisions Questions & answers |
| *SAILS stands for Standards, Assessments, Instruction &
Intervention, Leadership & System-wide Commitment |
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What You Will Learn
This seminar is designed to help teachers, reading
specialists, reading coaches, supervisors, and principals
who are developing RTI assessment plans
take a close look at:
- WHY various reading assessments are being used
- HOW to select and administer the most time efficient and useful assessments
- WHO should be assessed with each type of assessment
- Most importantly, how to USE the data to make key instructional decisions that can truly help provide the best possible reading instruction to all students
Just as physicians make health-care decisions using the best information available, educators must also use the best assessment tools to guide their decisions about students' academic health and well being. You will learn to use assessment tools that can help educators clearly document each student's history of intervention — a requirement in RTI implementations and useful for determining the next steps to take for struggling readers.
What You Will Receive
- The skills and tools you need to make key instructional decisions based on assessment results.
- A seminar packet with guidelines and charts that show how to use reading assessments effectively.
- Read Naturally assessment tools worth $234—a single-teacher license for Reading Fluency Benchmark Assessor, one grade level of Reading Fluency Progress Monitor, and Quick Phonics Screener.
- Read Naturally's white paper, Read Naturally Assessments and Programs in a Response to Intervention (RTI) Model.
- A chance to win a copy of one of Dr. Jan Hasbrouck's books, The Reading Coach: A How-To Manual for Success or Differentiated Instruction: Grouping for Success.
Dates & Locations
Click the Location name for details about the seminar location.
| Date | City/State | Location | Instructor |
| Jun. 16, 2010 | Houston, TX* | Holiday Inn — Houston Airport | Dr. Jan Hasbrouck |
| Jun. 30, 2010 | Chicago, IL | TBD | Dr. Jan Hasbrouck |
| Jul. 8, 2010 | Boston, MA | Holiday Inn Select — Boston/Woburn | Dr. Jan Hasbrouck |
| Jul. 13, 2010 | Los Angeles/Buena Park, CA* | Holiday Inn — Buena Park/Knott's Berry Farm | Dr. Jan Hasbrouck |
| Jul. 26, 2010 | Spokane, WA* | Holiday Inn — Spokane Airport | Dr. Jan Hasbrouck |
| Aug. 11, 2010 | New York, NY* | The New Yorker Hotel | Dr. Jan Hasbrouck |
| *Take two seminars and save on travel costs! These RTI Assessment Strategies seminars are scheduled the day before or after a Read Naturally seminar at the same location. | |||
About the Presenter
Dr. Jan Hasbrouck is a nationally known and respected educational consultant, researcher, and trainer on the topics of reading fluency, teachers as reading coaches, and assessing and teaching struggling readers.
Dr. Hasbrouck has worked as a reading specialist and reading coach, and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses as a university professor. Her research in reading fluency, academic assessments and interventions, and consultation has been widely published.
She is co-author of The Reading Coach: A How-To Manual for Success, which clarifies the increasingly important role of teachers as reading coaches and Differentiating Instruction: Grouping for Success, a practical guide for effectively managing small group instruction. Dr. Hasbrouck has extensive experience with reading assessments and helping design effective instructional programs for low-performing students.