Response to Intervention--Behavioral Model

After attending the MATCEI (Michigan Association of Teachers of Children with Emotional Impairment) conference in April, I was fortunate enough to learn a great detail about RTI from a behavioral model stand point. 

Let's give all students data based intervention for their behaviors and THEN...for the students who don't respond to that school-wide positive behavior support system, we will look at the function of their behaviors and see what we can do as teachers to increase their positive, appropriate behaviors through more data based interventions. 

I am sure I have mentioned the "Safe and Civil Schools" by Randy Sprick, but I wanted to mention that even if the school you teach at does not implement Randy's program, it would benefit your students to take a look at the positive behavior management system from the RTI standpoint! 

Here is the website, please visit for more information:

http://www.safeandcivilschools.com/