Journey Through Education

                                                               UNDERSTANDING RTI  Response to Intervention (RTI) is a tool that help educators assess, locate, and address issues that students are having in their classrooms. In the article (What Every School Leader Needs to Know About RTI), it depicts the system of RTI as a stool. These three legs are labeled as 1) Assessment, 2) Intervention, 3) Problem-solving Process (Figure 1.1). After conducting assessments, then you can apply three levels of intervention that are broken down based on the students need. The article also discusses how RTI is a proactive tool used by educators to stay ahead of students that need additional assistance. RTI can bring in multiple resources and experts that create plans for students that show early signs of d...

 After doing research into the role of Central Office Supervisors, there seems to still be a question of what their positions is and how and who does it effect students and local school staff. When trying to answer this question, I relied on a 2003 article by Martha Ovando titled “After doing research into the role of Central Office Supervisors, there seems to still be a question on what is their positions and how is it”.   This article took two approaches when trying to answer this question. The fist approach was by supervisory practices and secondly, through supervisory roles and contributions. These two approaches were then looked at through the 12 dimensions of supervisory practices. Again, when it came to the breakdown of how this work was being accomplished, Central Office Supervisor’s believed that the practices were being equally distributed across supervisors and the Campus Leaders. When evaluating the distribution from the school level perspective, they believe that ...