Ehren & Deshler: CLC as RTI
These video clips are taken from a presentation given July 2007 at the KU-CRL’s Treasures of SIM conference in Lawrence, KS.
Segment 1: Don Deshler speaks about the past and present problems schools, districts and states have when dealing with identifying learning disabilities. Some of the solutions discussed later involve improving the Response to Intervention (RTI) model.
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Segment 2: Barbara Ehren and Don Deshler talk about ways to ensure special education success by improving RTI at the secondary level.
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Segment 3: The Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) provides one approach to implementing RTI at the secondary school level. Barbara Ehren translates the five levels of CLC into the three tiers of RTI.
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Segment 4: Don Deshler describes a climate of urgency in schools today that encourage rapid changes. The RTI model needs a time investment from schools in order to properly change a special education program for the better.
For more information on these topics, here are some references used in the presentation:
Fuchs, D., & Deshler, D.D. (2007). What we need to know about responsiveness to intervention (and shouldn’t be afraid to ask). Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 22(2), 129-136.
Heifetz, R.L., & Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the line: Staying alive through the dangers of leading. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Spillane, J., Reiser, B. & Reimer, T. (2002). Policy implementation and cognition: Reframing and refocusing implementation research. Review of Educational Research 72(3): 387-431.
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Segment 5: Don Deshler stresses the need for balance and differentiation between general education (Tiers 1 and 2) and special education (Tier 3).
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