CURRICULUM PLAN
For TARGETED Professional Learning (face-to-face, online, or blended)
Title: Pyramid Response to Intervention-Book Study
Number of Credits Requested (15 instructional hours are required for 1 credit): 1
Instructor of Record (person who will sign the grade sheet): Rebecca Bless-Ward, Elementary Principal
*New Instructors: Please upload resume’ in Credit Approval Request form.
Additional PRESENTER/FACILTATOR INFO: (copy this & add ALL presenters/facilitators HERE)
Name: Pat Brenden,
Current Position/Title: Superintendent,
Place of Work: Dunseith HS
Highest Degree and Field of Study: Masters in Educational Leadership
1. Description
Please provide a detailed description to include purpose of the learning event, instructional strategies used to
engage educators in the learning, and any other information which will explain what content is being covered
during this event. This helps clarify the scope and depth of the learning event.
Participants will meet for 1.25 hrs on a biweekly basis to discuss outside reading assignments. Through
participation, participants will be better able to assess the current situations of their own schools and begin
to take purposeful steps in developing an intervention pyramid that implies that failure is not an option.
Interventions concerning learning and behavior will be constructed by Professional Learning Communities
and as participants progress through the study.
2. Learning Objectives/Targets
Please provide 2-3 learning objectives which you will use as targets for participant learning. It’s helpful to
finish the sentence, “Participants will …” (Utilize action verbs, such as, ASSESS, DEFINE, ANALYZE, etc.)
Participants will:
1. Build a strong central core program
2. Create strategies for interventions
3. Create a system of problem solving based on the three big ideas – a focus on learning, a
collaborative culture, and a focus on results.
4. Learn keys to legal and stakeholder support.
3. Agenda/Learning Event Outline
Fill in the template that follows OR attach an agenda outlining topics to be covered during AM and PM
sessions, and for the each date the event meets.
MEETING DATES AND TIMES
Hours
1.25
OUTSIDE READING/ASSIGNMENTS
Read chapter 1, Read Chapter 2& 3
1.25
Read Chapters 3 and 4
Complete Appendix modules
#3 - Feb 9, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapters 4 & 5 Laying the Foundation: A
Professional Learning Community & Learning
CPR
#4 - Feb 23, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 6 Tier 1: The Core Program
#5 - March 9, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 7 Tier 2: The Supplemental Program
#6 - March 23, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 8 Tier 3: The Intensive Level
#7 - April 6, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 9 The Role of Behavioral Intervention
#8 - April 20, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 10 Meeting the Legal Requirements
1.25
Read Chapter 6
Complete Appendix module
1.25
Read Chapter 7
Complete Appendix module
Read Chapter 8
Complete Appendix module
#9 - May 4, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 11 Putting it All Together
1.25
#1 - Jan 12, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapter 1: What is Response to Intervention?
#2 - Jan 26, 2011 3:30 – 4:45
Chapters 2 & 3 Facts About RTI & RTI Models
1.25
1.25
Read Chapter 9
Complete Appendix module
1.25
Read Chapter 10
Complete Appendix module
Read Chapter 11
Complete Appendix module
1.25
Complete Appendix module. Formulate
intervention to be put in place at the start of the
next school year.
Total Hours in Group Sessions = 11.25
If required instructional hours (15 for 1 credit; 30 for 2 credits, etc.) aren’t met during sessions listed
above, please identify the hours remaining, and explain what participants will be required to do to
complete them.
Nine group sessions are 1.25 hours each for a total of 11.25 hours of instructional time. The remaining 3.5
hours + will be completed through reading, developing discussion notes, and outlining possible
intervention strategies to share in group sessions.
Total Hours (excluding mealtimes): 15
4. Resources/Materials
What resources/materials will be used (books, articles, videos, etc.)? Provide titles of materials and authors.
Required text will be provided by the district: Pyramid Response to Intervention: Buffum, Austin; Mattos,
Mike; Weber, Chris
5. Evaluation Plan
Required Criteria to Receive Credit
Attendance & Participation: Participants must be actively involved in all instructional hours provided.
Receiving credit is dependent upon quality evidence completed by participants that appropriately reflects
the amount of instructional hours this event provides. Please explain how or what the participants will
do to provide evidence of the following required assessments of learning.
Reflections on New Learning:
 Participants will share personal reflections of new learning through discussion and Q & Q during
the study session
Application of New Learning:
 Participants will be required to turn in an outline of strategies/interventions, taken from the
reading and group discussions, to be shared with their PLCs for consideration as part of the
development of a pyramid intervention plan for the school.
Submission Deadline Date of Assignments (if applicable) : May 4, 20__
5. Grading Rubric – NA – S/U grading is the only available grading for book studies.
Special Thanks to Rebecca Ward for granting permission to use this document as an “Example” for
other submitters!