This session will outline a comprehensive redesign of our school’s RTI system built around a dedicated flexible period and a clearly defined five-zone framework. Rather than operating as a fragmented pull-out model, RTI is embedded into the master schedule and driven by PLC decision-making, assessment cycles, and structured student placement protocols.
Participants will learn how Zone 1 provides intensive, service-based interventions (SPED, math/ELA intervention, high-impact tutoring), while Zone 2 supports identified “pathway” students using targeted, individualized skill platforms aligned to interim, summative, and classroom data. Zones 3–5 operate dynamically on a weekly cycle: PLCs review student progress, determine skill gaps or enrichment needs, and collaboratively assign students to reteach sessions, extension opportunities, with open study/work sessions available. Core departments are prioritized in placement windows, and teachers retain final placement authority, while students are given structured choice to advocate for additional support or challenge.
The session will detail logistics including semester data reviews, weekly PLC planning structures, student sign-up protocols, scheduling guardrails, and systems for revisiting placements after assessment checkpoints. Attendees will leave with a replicable framework for transforming a flexible period into a precision support model that balances intervention, enrichment, student ownership, and operational clarity.
