NC Responsiveness to Instruction:
State Update
NC Department of Public Instruction
March 2012
Agenda
•  History of RtI
•  Current RtI Model
–  Meeting All Students’ Needs
–  4 to 3 Tiers
•  Future Implementation
What is RtI?
•  A multi-tiered framework which promotes
school improvement through engaging,
high quality instruction.
•  NC RtI employs a team approach to guide
educational practices, using a problemsolving model based on data, to address
student needs and maximize growth for all.
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Tertiary (FEW)
-  Reduce complications, intensity,
severity of current cases
Secondary (SOME)
-  Reduce the current cases of
problem behavior
Primary (ALL)
-  Reduce the new cases of
problem behavior
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Supplemental
Core
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Meeting All Student’s Needs
NC Responsiveness to Instruction
Secondary Pilot Project
•  Funded by a two-year Oak Foundation Grant
Year 1: 2011-12
Year 2: 2012-13
History
•  Nationally Responsiveness to Instruction (RtI)
focused on elementary school
•  Need for exploration at Secondary Level
•  Vertical alignment essential for system
development
Pilot Sites
Cabarrus
County
Asheville City
Schools
Johnston
County
Harold E.
Winkler Middle
School
Asheville
Middle School
Benson Middle
School
Randolph
Learning
Center
South Johnston
High School
J. M. Robinson
High School
Pilot Goals
•  Adopt and implement RtI in one MS and oneHS
in each LEA
•  Utilize RtI as the centerpiece of school
improvement
•  Develop an RtI Leadership Team at the LEA
level
•  Develop an RtI Leadership Team at each
school site
Pilot Goals
•  Establish a comprehensive plan for evaluating
progress
•  Utilize assessment tools for universal screening
and progress monitoring
•  Serve as RtI demonstration sites for schools
across North Carolina
Current Status
•  Receiving Kansas Strategies
–  Infuse common teaching frames into Core
–  Deploy intensive support
•  Sharing scheduling ideas
•  Analyzing universal screening tools
Lessons to Date
•  Universal Screening options at HS
•  Scheduling developed differently
•  Core plus more to close gaps
•  Teacher support for addressing student need
RtI for All Students
Special
Education
Title I
AIG
ESL
Adapted from work by Dale Cusumano
Layering of Support
Intensive Support
Supplemental Support
Differentiated Core
Creating it Together
•  Ongoing collaboration regarding critical
components of Three-Tier RtI model with LEA
stakeholders
•  Collaboration with RtI Consortium
•  Subpopulation workgroups (EC, AIG, ELL)
including LEA stakeholders
Summer and Fall Training
•  Summer 2012
–  East, Central and West locations for transition
support (4 tiers to 3 tiers)
–  Designed for currently implementing LEAs
•  Fall 2012
–  East, Central and West locations for 3 Tier RtI
Implementation
–  Designed for new adopters
Working Together
•  At your table, discuss and record your
ideas and suggestions for successful
implementation of RtI.
–  What are your needs for support?
–  What are some ways that you can support
the work at the state-level?
Future Implementation
Scaling-Up RtI
•  July 2011
–  Partnership w/SISEP established
•  December 2011
–  NC became Active State
Implementation Gap
RESEARCH
IMPLEMENTATION
GAP
PRACTICE
Implementation is defined as a specified set
of activities designed to put into practice an
activity or program of known dimensions.
Implementation Gap
Why Focus on Implementation?
RESEARCH
IMPLEMENTATION PRACTICE
GAP
“Students cannot benefit from
interventions they do not experience.”
Formula for Success
Effective intervention
1
X
X
Effective implementation
0.03
=
Effective outcomes
0.03
Who’s Accountable for
Learning?
Student
Practitioner
System
Making It Happen
•  Letting it happen
•  Helping it happen
䇾Do it yourself䇿 approaches
•  Making it happen
–  䇾Do it with expert help䇿
–  Implementation Teams are accountable
Based on Hall & Hord (1987); Greenhalgh, Robert, MacFarlane, Bate, &
Kyriakidou (2004); Fixsen, Blase, Duda, Naoom, & Van Dyke (2010)
Making It Happen
•  We need to know:
–  The WHAT - What is the intervention
•  e.g. Effective instruction, effective assessment
–  The HOW - Effective implementation and
sustainability frameworks
•  e.g. Strategies to change and maintain behavior of adults
–  The WHO – Organized, expert implementation
assistance
Active Implementation Frameworks
•  Successful implementation on a useful
scale requires…
•  IMPLEMENTATION DRIVERS
•  STAGES OF IMPLEMENTATION
•  IMPROVEMENT CYCLES
•  IMPLEMENTATION TEAMS
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How long at a district level?
Implementation
How long at a state level?
How long at a national level?
Improvement Cycles
Effective Implementation
Implementation Team members
make effective use of:
!  Implementation Stages
!  Implementation Drivers
!  Improvement Cycles
Implementation Teams
State, Regional, District, Building Teams
•  Know innovations very well (formal and craft
knowledge)
•  Know implementation very well (formal and
craft knowledge)
•  Know improvement cycles to make
interventions and implementation methods
more effective and efficient over time
Implementation
Team
Teachers
Innovations
Students
Practice- Policy
Communication Cycle
System
Change
State
Management
Team
Policy Supports
Effective Practice
SISEP System Change Support
System Alignment
For More Information
about Implementation Science
Dean L. Fixsen, Ph.D.
–  919-966-3892
–  dean.fixsen@unc.edu
Barbara Sims
–  919-843-8751
–  barbara.sims@unc.edu
http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu/
www.scalingup.org
www.implementationconference.org
Implementation Science
Implementation
Research:
A Synthesis of the
Literature
Fixsen, D. L., Naoom, S. F., Blase, K. A., Friedman, R. M. & Wallace, F. (2005). Implementation
Research: A Synthesis of the Literature. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, Louis de la Parte
Florida Mental Health Institute, The National Implementation Research Network (FMHI Publication
#231).
Download all or part of the monograph at:
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~nirn/resources/detail.cfm?resourceID=31
RtI Resources
•  RtI Listserves: Contact a Field Support Consultant to Join
–  Inforti: Listserv for all school and district personnel as a vehicle for:
•  Information re: DPI updates, webinars, resources
•  Networking
–  RtINews: Listserv for District RtI coordinator/leadership as a vehicle for:
•  Information re: DPI updates, webinars, resources
•  Networking
•  Sharing of information/needs/concerns
•  NCDPI RtI Webpage:
–  http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/responsiveness/