Making RTI Responsive for ELL Families

Making RTI Culturally & Linguistically Responsive to

Families Dr. Catherine Collier

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© 2012 Dr. Catherine CollierAll Rights Reserved

RTI Progress Monitoring

RTI is a function of regular education that emphasizes preventing learning difficulties before they start and eliminating the need for a student to fail before intervention is available.At-risk students are assessed frequently on specific skills throughout the year to determine if the intervention being used is effective and if the student is responding as intended.


Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-step approach to providing services to struggling students. Teachers provide instruction and interventions to them at increasing levels of intensity. They also monitor the progress students make at each intervention level and use the assessment results to decide whether the students need additional instruction or intervention in general education or referral to special education.

Typical Model

What is RTI?

Tier 3

Tier 2

Tier 1


LD EBD AS

5.80%2.50%

.6%

12.90%

4.40%.10%

NonELL ELL

Disproportionality WA


Students in English immersion programs are referred at higher rates than those in bilingual programs.

ELLs who are “parent denials” are the most likely to be referred and placed.

ELL Representation Patterns


Is RTI the answer to disproportionate representation of ELL?

Only if approaches are culturally and linguistically responsive and address both system and student issues.


Definitions

The concept of things that particular people use as models of perceiving, relating, and interpreting their environment.

The process by which individuals perceive, relate to, and interpret their environment.

Difficulty in perceiving and manipulating patterns in the environment, whether patterns of sounds, symbols, numbers, or behaviors.

CognitionLearning Disability

Culture


Vertical vs horizontalInstruct vs allowIndulgent vs strictAdult vs peersInward vs outwardNuclear vs communal

Culture & Child Rearing


But avoid stereotyping!

Sometimes it is easier to understand culturally diverse families in terms of group attributes. But individual families are constantly negotiating their identity and their culture within their peer groups and their community culture is not static.


Expectations



RTI is more than reading!


THE BASICS OF BEING HUMAN Sensory abilities, linguistic wiring, genetic and biologic

heritage, innate abilities, etc.

ENCULTURATIONPerceptions, social and behavior patterns,

language, values, etc. learned from caregivers.

ACCULTURATIONPerceptions, social & behavior patterns,

language, etc. learned from interaction with new group(s).

INDIVIDUALUnique experiences,

insights, personal reflections.

Ways we are less like other people.

Ways we are more like other

people.


Common Side-Effects Of the Acculturation Process

Heightened AnxietyConfusion in Locus of ControlWithdrawalSilence/unresponsivenessResponse FatigueCode-switchingDistractibilityResistance to ChangeDisorientationStress Related Behaviors


The Intensity of CultureShock is Cyclical

AnticipationPhase

SpectatorPhase

IncreasingParticipationPhase

ShockPhase

AdaptationPhase

AnticipationPhase

SpectatorPhase

IncreasingParticipationPhase

ShockPhase

AdaptationPhase

Highly Engaged Level

ModeratelyEngagedLevel

Normal Intensity of Emotions

ModeratelyDepressedLevel

Greatly Depressed Level


7 Steps for Separating Difference & Disability

Step 1 Building & Sustaining a Foundation for LearningStep 2 Establishing & Supporting ResiliencyStep 3 Instructional Intervention & Differentiated InstructionStep 4 Intensive Intervention with Progress MonitoringStep 5 Resolution or ReferralStep 6 Integrated Services & Cross-cultural IEPsStep 7 Maintaining Staff & Programs Serving CLDE


Literacy Readiness Skills

Arithmetic Readiness Skills

TPR for NNE

Oral Proficiency L1

PRISIM: Pyramid of Resilience, Instruction, Strategies, Intervention

& Monitoring Learning created with building blocks for success

Analogies

Visualization

Self monitoring

TPR

Bilingual

Miscue analysis

Stepped proximics

3D pie charts

IDEA Evaluation Procedures

Each public agency must ensure that tests and other evaluation materials used to assess a child under Part B of IDEA:are selected and administered so as not to be discriminatory on a racial or cultural basis; andare provided and administered in the child’s native language or other mode of communication, unless it is clearly not feasible to do so.


Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

In order to properly evaluate a child who may be limited English proficient, a public agency should assess the child’s proficiency in English as well as in his or her native language to distinguish language proficiency from disability needs; and

An accurate assessment of the child’s language proficiency should include objective assessment of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding.



If the native language or other mode of communication of the parent is not a written language, the public agency must take steps to ensure...

• that the notice is translated orally or by other means to the parent in his or her native language or other mode of communication;

• that the parent understands the content of the notice; and

• that there is written evidence that these two requirements have been met.

IDEA Evaluation Procedures


Family support practices

Promote long term relationshipsIncorporate a variety of educational experiencesMeet parents where they areBuild on families’ strengthsAcknowledge and address the context in which families existWork with parents as partnersRespond to the practical needs of parentsIncorporate outreach efforts

Source: Parent Trust of Washington


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Over 45 years experience.Research on impact of acculturation on referral & placement of CLD students. Research on effectiveness of specific cognitive learning strategies for diverse learners.Classroom teacher, diagnostician, faculty, administrator. Social justice advocate, author & teacher educator.

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