Core instruction is in this tier of the inverted pyramid.
What is Tier 1?
100
Prioritizing the standards rather than regarding all of them as being equal in importance.
What are essential learning outcomes?
100
Can predict the students who are extremely at risk or failing before we begin instruction.
What is a universal screening?
100
Identifying essential learning standards answers this PLC question.
What is the first PLC question, what do students need to know and be able to do?
200
Additional support to master grade level essentials is found in this tier of the inverted pyramid.
What is tier 2?
200
The deadline for identifying essential skills.
What is a continuous process? This is a journey not a destination.
200
The people who create common assessments.
Who are collaborative teacher teams?
200
Common formative assessments are the tools used to answer this PLC question.
What is critical PLC question 2, how will we know if students know it?
300
Intensive remediation in universal skills (reading, writing, number sense, English language, attendance, behavior, etc) is found in this tier of the inverted pyramid.
What is tier 3?
300
The people responsible for determining essential standards.
Who are school based PLC's? (Experts who teach the content)
300
In order for common assessments to inform instruction, progress must be analyzed by _________, by ___________, by ______________.
What is by student, by standard by learning target?
300
RtI answers this PLC question.
What is critical PLC question 3, how will we respond if they don't get it?
400
The student does not have the ability to complete the task but has the desire. The student does have the ability to complete the task but does not want to.
What is skill and will?
400
The criteria for selecting essential standards.
What is endurance, leverage and readiness? Talk at your table about what each of these mean (Page 48 in your RtI book.)
400
The standards by which common assessments should be based.
What are essential learning standards?
400
Assessing above level/deeper content on common assessments provides information to guide this PLC question.
What is critical PLC question 4, how will we respond if students already have it?
500
Double Jeopardy: Answers Vary by Table/School...
What have you done differently in your practice since learning about the inverted pyramid?
500
Double Jeopardy: Answers vary by table/school.
How does the process of identifying essential learning enrich your PLC's and guide the RtI process?
500
Double Jeopardy: Answers vary by table/school.
Has your understanding of common assessments changed and if so, how? Where are your school/PLCs in the process of creating common assessments?
500
Double Jeopardy: Answers vary by school/table.
How do you communicate to your staff that this work is about cultural change, building a culture, learning for ALL?