Rationale: The staff of Pope Elementary strongly believe in the importance of regularly scheduled, authentic and meaningful collaboration. The focus of periodic grade level RTI meetings is to analyze intentionally collected data, evaluate the effectiveness of interventions implemented, and collaboratively adjust instructional/intervention plans based on the evidence gathered.
The staff recognizes it will take a commitment of their time and focused energy to make these meetings meaningful and to have an impact on our instruction and ultimately our students overall achievement.
RtI Meeting Plan The following RTI meeting plan and schedule will be implemented during the 2014 2015 school year.
Frequency: Grade Level RTI Meetings will be held on a rotating schedule with each team meeting approximately once every 7 weeks.
Duration: Meetings will be limited to 45 minutes
Day: Mondays (some exceptions) Exceptions will be agreed upon between grade level teams and the principal
Time: 8:15 9:00
Time Compensation
The administrative team appreciates the commitment of the staff to ensuring this important work takes place and acknowledges the loss of planning time. The following times will be provided as compensation for lost planning time:
Each Grade level will meet 4 times this year 4 meetings X 45 minutes = 3 hours of sacrificed planning time
Time trade: 1 hourMonday, November 24 (Was scheduled as PR Monday) 1 hourMonday, March 23 (Was scheduled as PR Monday) 1 hourThursday, October 9 (Professional Development Day #1)
Draft Schedule
October 6 1 st Grade October 13 2 nd Grade October 20 3 rd Grade October 27 4 th Grade *** November 3 5 th Grade November 10 6 th Grade November 17 Kindergarten November 24 1 st Grade *** December 1 2 nd Grade December 8 3 rd Grade December 15 4 th Grade January 5 5 th Grade January 12 6 th Grade (Tuesday) January 20 Kindergarten (Monday is MLK Day) January 26 1 st Grade*** February 2 2 nd Grade February 9 3 rd Grade (Tuesday) February 17 4 th Grade (Monday is Presidents day) February 23 5 th Grade*** March 2 6 th Grade March 9 Kindergarten March 16 1 st Grade March 23 2 nd Grade April 6 3 rd Grade April 13 4 th Grade April 20 5 th Grade April 27 6 th Grade*** May 4 Kindergarten