Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
NWRCC Events
Response to Intervention: A Framework for Improving Student Learning
Description
Response to Intervention: A Framework for Improving Student Learning, is a follow-up to NWRCC's 2006 RTI Symposium, Catch Them Early: Using RTI to Match Instruction to the Needs of All Students, and is one of a series of opportunities states will have over the next several years for involvement in RTI events and activities. The goal of NWRCC is to increase the capacity of each state education agency to build, support, and sustain an integrated response to intervention system that will improve student learning by coordinating efforts across general and special education.
Expected Outcomes
- Participants will further their understanding of RTI as a framework for improving student learning
- Participants will learn about strategies and federal guidelines that promote the coordination of efforts for RTI across general and special education
- Participants will apply the research on implementation to the context of RTI
Scheduled Speakers
- Dean Fixsen, Co-Director, National Implementation Research Network
- Gregory Roberts, Center on Instruction
- Louis Danielson, United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
- Zollie Stevenson, United States Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Petrea Hagen-Gilden, Director of Student Services Tigard-Tualatin School District
- Erin Lolich, Oregon RTI Project Manager
- David M. Guardino, Special Education State Grant Coordinator, Oregon Department of Education
- Nancy Latini, Assistant Superintendent, Oregon Department of Educaton
Ride the Big Yellow School Bus "Back to School"
Symposium attendees will be transported "back to school" each day of the Symposium. A big yellow school bus will provide transportation to and from the Portland Hilton in downtown Portland to the McMenamins Kennedy School - an historic elementary school, built in 1915 and a beloved fixture of its Northeast Portland neighborhood. Extensive original artwork and historical photographs cover the walls, ceilings, doorways and hallways of this renovated, once abandoned scholastic gem. Ride the Big Yellow School Bus Experience the Kennedy School.