PLC’s, MTI, and
Differentiation
A System for
Success
in Roseburg Public
Schools
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The classroom teacher monitors student
achievement to determine when it is
most effective to teach something.
This definition fits which of the district
initiatives?
A. PLC (Professional Learning Communities)
B. MTI (Multi-Tiered Instruction)
C. Differentiated Instruction
D. All of the Above
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How does it all fit together?
Crowd=Parents and the Community
Track=The Road to Student Success
Driver=Teacher
Pit crew= PLC team
Vehicles= MTI System
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using Differentiation
The system, the team, and the teacher
are all working toward student success
using standards, assessment, and
instruction.
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Support for All Learners
Standards:
Unwrapping, Core Standards,
aligning with curriculum,
essential questions, vertical
alignment
Instruction:
Deprivatization of your
practice, healthy core,
coaching, “Best Practices”,
Studio Classroom,
research/evidence based
curriculum, resources…..
Assessment:
Formative, Summative,
Common, Universal
Screening & Progress
Monitoring
Critical Questions of
Teaching and Learning
• What exactly do we expect all students to learn?
• How will we know if they’ve learned it?
• How will we respond when some students don’t
learn it?
• How will we respond when some students have
already learned?
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Where do they Connect?
• What exactly do we
• Standards
expect all students to
• Core Program
learn?
• Alignment Documents
• How will we know if
they’ve learned it?
• How will we respond when
some students don’t learn
it?
• How will we respond when
some students have
already learned?
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Where do they Connect?
• What exactly do we
expect all students to
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learn?
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• How will we know if
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they’ve learned it?
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• How will we respond when
some students don’t learn
it?
• How will we respond when
some students have
already learned?
Universal Screener
Progress Monitoring
Common Formative Assessments
In-program assessments
MAP and OAKS
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Where do they Connect?
• What exactly do we
expect all students
to learn?
• How will we know if
they’ve learned it?
• How will we respond
when some students
don’t learn it?
• How will we respond
when some students
have already learned
it?
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Differentiation
Decision rules
Protocol
Interventions
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Where do they Connect?
• What exactly do we
expect all students to
learn?
• How will we know if
they’ve learned it?
• How will we respond
when some students
don’t learn it?
• How will we respond
when some students
have already learned
it?
•
Differentiation
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PLC Essential
Characteristics
(Team)
MTI Fundamental
Elements
Differentiation
(Individual Teacher)
(System)
 Focus on learning and
collaborative culture with
your team
 Focus on collective
responsibility and
teaming as a system
 Focus on creating
appropriately different
learning experiences
for each student
 Data-based decision making
 Universal screening and
progress monitoring
 Apply assessment
results to your
instruction
 Action experimentation
(is your system willing and
able to respond)
 Systematic
interventions and
decision rules
 Alter your content,
processes, products,
and learning
environments
 Collective inquiry into best
practice and current reality
 Healthy core program
and interventions
 Monitor the results
and begin again
Improved Student Learning - The Common Thread
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decompressor
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You are in the Driver’s Seat.
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decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
What is your role?
What is the role of your team?
What is the role of the system?
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