Blumberg Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Special Education
Project for responsive educational systems
online professional development
Data-Based Decision Making
Collection and Use of Evidence
This series
of academies promotes understanding and using data and other evidence of
student performance to improve student learning.
Titles include the following:
Mining Meaningful Data,
Identifying School-Wide Patterns of Student Performance, and
Looking at Student Work to Target Instruction.
Each academy includes a facilitator manual, PowerPoint
presentation, and printable materials.
Colorado Department
of Education (CDE) RTI Videos:
Academic,
Behavior,
Video Guide
These
videos model the problem-solving process and its role within a Response
to Intervention framework in both academics and behavior. The video
guide helps school problem-solving teams understand the steps of the
problem-solving process. Both of these are useful tools for educators as
they learn and discuss the various roles and responsibilities of a
problem-solving team.
Data-Based Decision Making
Nationally
recognized experts and RTI implementers provide guidance on using data
from multiple assessment functions to support and empower educator
decision making within an RTI framework.
Florida
Department of Education (FDOE) RTI Training Course: Problem Solving and
Response to Intervention
Modules
include selected literature, a PowerPoint presentation with accompanying
notes, and an online evaluation to assess knowledge. Participants must
complete each module successfully with a score of 100% in order to move
on to the next module and receive a certificate upon completion.
This course is a useful resource to test your personal knowledge
of RTI and the problem-solving process or as a professional development
tool to use in your school or district.
(Access is free with required registration)
Webinar: Data Utilization within a CBM Screening and Progress
Monitoring System
Dr. Erica Lembke provides information on how to utilize CBM screening and progress
monitoring data to make instructional decisions through data decision
rules; questions to help guide problem-solving teams as they discuss
data; and data-based discussions to make instructional decisions at the
school, grade, classroom, and individual student levels.
Site includes PowerPoint presentation, webinar transcript and
recording, graphing handbook, and presentation handouts.
Webinar: Monitoring Student Progress in the Classroom to Enhance
Teaching Planning and Student Learning
Dr. Lynn
Fuchs presents on using student data to drive instructional decisions.
Site includes PowerPoint, transcript, and webinar recording.