INNOVATIVE RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION PRACTICES:
PLANNING TO IMPLEMENTATION

Featuring:
Jim Wright
Intervention Central
Thursday, April 22nd and Friday, April 23rd

Special Guest Speaker:
Patti Harrison
NASP President
Thursday, April 22nd, 8:30 Keynote:

“School Psychologists: Promoting Competence, Capacity, and Opportunities for Children, Families, and Schools”

Ethics Workshop
Kathy McNamara
Thursday, April 22nd, 6pm-9pm

Description of Presentation:

‘Response to Intervention’ (RTI) is an emerging approach to the diagnosis of Learning Disabilities that holds considerable promise. In the RTI model, a student with academic delays is given one or more research-validated interventions and the student’s academic progress is then monitored frequently to verify that those interventions are effective. If the student fails to make academic progress despite several intervention attempts, this failure to ‘respond to intervention’ can be viewed as evidence of an underlying Learning Disability. In addition to academic difficulties, students can struggle with behavioral issues such as: anger, inattention, disorganization, and lack of motivation.

This workshop provides participants with:

1. An overview of RTI and an explanation of how this framework can better support struggling learners, both at the Elementary and Secondary levels.

Special emphasis will be on the Secondary level process. To be effective at the middle and high school level, Response to Intervention (RTI) must be tailored to accommodate teams of teachers, compartmentalized instruction, highly demanding curriculum expectations, complex schedules--and students who are approaching adulthood and have a significant voice in their own educational program.

2. The workshop also includes tutorials on essential elements of RTI, including:

The creation of effective school-based intervention teams. The RTI Team is a diverse group of school professionals that meet with referring teachers to assist them in identifying their central concerns about struggling students and to design intervention plans to help those students to achieve success. Workshop participants are trained to perform each of the RTI Team roles (facilitator, recorder, case manager, time-keeper) and to follow the problem-solving steps of the RTI meeting. The workshop provides modeling of effective team problem-solving through a brief video of an RTI Team meeting.

Use of Curriculum-Based Measurement and other monitoring tools.

Ideas for putting together scientifically based academic and behavioral interventions.

3. Participants learn useful conceptual tools--such as the Instructional Hierarchy, the Learn Unit and the Schoolwork Motivation Assessment-- that will aid them in matching struggling learners to the right interventions. The training then reviews the three key academic domains: reading, mathematics, and writing. For each academic domain, participants learn about common 'stumbling blocks' that can prevent students from achieving success and review a sampling of effective, classroom-friendly, research-based interventions.

Participants learn the core concepts of good behavior management and provide educators with research-based strategies needed to work effectively both with non-compliant and

About the Presenter:
Jim Wright is a school psychologist and school administrator who lives and works in central New York. Until recently, Jim served as a program developer and trainer for the Syracuse City School District. Jim has presented extensively to educators across New Your state and in other parts of the country on effective school-based academic and behavioral interventions, curriculum-based measurement, and violence prevention. A past winner of the “Leadership in School Psychology” award from the New Your State Association of School Psychologists, Jim is also the creator of the Intervention Central website (www.interventioncentral.org). Most recently, Jim published The RTI Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Schools.

Conference Brochure: (return to top)

PLEASE NOTE, CONFERENCE IS NOW AT FULL CAPACITY

Program Schedule (return to top)

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Wednesday, April 21st
4:30-7:30 OSPA Executive Board

Thursday, April 22, 2010
7:30 -9:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:30 State Department Update

8:30-9:00 Guest Speaker: Patti Harrison, NASP President

9:15-11:40 Jim Wright: PROBLEM-SOLVING TEAMS

11:40-12:10 OSPA Awards

12:00-1:00 Luncheon

1:00-4:30 Jim Wright: DATA COLLECTION (Including CBM)

4:30-5:00 Committee Meetings

4:30-5:15 Kathy McNamara & Sawyer Hunley Book Signing

6:00 – 9:00 Ethics Workshop with Dr. Kathy McNamara

Friday, April 23, 2010

7:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:00 Poster Sessions

9:00-11:40 Jim Wright Presentation: ACADEMIC INTERVENTIONS

11:40-12:00 OSPA Business Meeting

12:00-1:00 Luncheon

1:00-4:00 Jim Wright: BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS

Registration Fees (return to top)

	Pre-Regis. By April 7th		Standard Rate After April 7th		Rate with Team* Pre-Regis. Only
	One Day	Both Days	One Day	Both Days	One Day	Both Days
OSPA Member	$100	$160	$120	$180	$90	$145
OSPA Member Student/Intern	$80	$90	$85	$100	$80	$90
Non-Member	$135	$200	$145	$220	$120	$190

*Denotes a special rate for building team registrations received at the same time. (Teams are one psychologist and any teachers or administrators from the same building)

Location & Lodging (return to top)

Hilton Garden Inn
Cleveland Downtown and
Gateway Conference Center
1100 Carnegie Avenue
(E. 9th & Carnegie)
Cleveland, OH 44115
216-658-6400

Cost of rooms
$99 Single / Double

From I-77 North, exit E. 9th St., Right on Carnegie

From I-71 North, exit E. 9th, Right on Carnegie

I-90 from West, exit E.9th, Right on Carnegie

I-90 from East, exit E. 9th, Prospect, turn right., left on E. 18th and right. on Carnegie

PLEASE NOTE:

OSPA was able to negotiate with the Embassy Suites, downtown Cleveland, a special room rate of $99 for the Spring Conference attendees. This rate includes a complimentary breakfast! Please mention that you are attending the OSPA conference when making your reservation.

The hotel information is:
Embassy Suites Cleveland - Downtown
1701 East 12th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Tel: 1-216-523-8000
Fax: 1-216-523-1698

If you are unable to secure accommodations at the Hilton Garden Inn or Embassy Suites, please email Elaine Semper or Sal Karanouh-Schuler. We will do what we can to assist you in securing accommodations. The sooner we know your needs, the better we can provide the needed assistance.

Books (return to top)

The RTI Toolkit – A Practical Guide for Schools
(Regular price: $34.96) Workshop price: $22

RTI & Classroom Behaviors Laminated Reference Guide
(Regular Price: $12.95) Workshop price: $10

The Power of RTI DVD with Classroom Manager Strategies K-6 (Regular price: $139) Workshop price: $70

RTI Data Collection Forms & Organizer, A binder with all sorts of forms and screeners (Regular price: $89) Workshop price: $80

Deadline for ordering books is April 7th

Meal Menus (return to top)

TBA

Continuing Education Credit (return to top)

Continuing Education and MCEs Available
Graduate Credit available through Ashland University
(Ashland Credit $172 for one hour graduate credit)