CURRICULUM PLAN For TARGETED Professional Learning (face-to-face, online, or blended)

Title: Pyramid Response to Intervention-Book Study

Number of Credits Requested (15 instructional hours are required for 1 credit): 1

Instructor of Record (person who will sign the grade sheet): Rebecca Bless-Ward, Elementary Principal *New Instructors: Please upload resume’ in Credit Approval Request form.

Additional PRESENTER/FACILTATOR INFO: (copy this & add ALL presenters/facilitators HERE) Name: Pat Brenden, Current Position/Title: Superintendent, Place of Work: Dunseith HS Highest Degree and Field of Study: Masters in Educational Leadership

1. Description Please provide a detailed description to include purpose of the learning event, instructional strategies used to engage educators in the learning, and any other information which will explain what content is being covered during this event. This helps clarify the scope and depth of the learning event.

Participants will meet for 1.25 hrs on a biweekly basis to discuss outside reading assignments. Through participation, participants will be better able to assess the current situations of their own schools and begin to take purposeful steps in developing an intervention pyramid that implies that failure is not an option. Interventions concerning learning and behavior will be constructed by Professional Learning Communities and as participants progress through the study.

2. Learning Objectives/Targets Please provide 2-3 learning objectives which you will use as targets for participant learning. It’s helpful to finish the sentence, “Participants will …” (Utilize action verbs, such as, ASSESS, DEFINE, ANALYZE, etc.)

Participants will: 1. Build a strong central core program 2. Create strategies for interventions 3. Create a system of problem solving based on the three big ideas – a focus on learning, a collaborative culture, and a focus on results. 4. Learn keys to legal and stakeholder support.

3. Agenda/Learning Event Outline Fill in the template that follows OR attach an agenda outlining topics to be covered during AM and PM sessions, and for the each date the event meets. MEETING DATES AND TIMES Hours OUTSIDE READING/ASSIGNMENTS #1 - Jan 12, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read chapter 1, Read Chapter 2& 3 Chapter 1: What is Response to Intervention? #2 - Jan 26, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapters 3 and 4 Chapters 2 & 3 Facts About RTI & RTI Models Complete Appendix modules

#3 - Feb 9, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapter 6 Chapters 4 & 5 Laying the Foundation: A Complete Appendix module Professional Learning Community & Learning CPR #4 - Feb 23, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Tier 1: The Core Program Complete Appendix module #5 - March 9, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapter 8 Chapter 7 Tier 2: The Supplemental Program Complete Appendix module #6 - March 23, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapter 9 Chapter 8 Tier 3: The Intensive Level Complete Appendix module #7 - April 6, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapter 10 Chapter 9 The Role of Behavioral Intervention Complete Appendix module #8 - April 20, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Read Chapter 11 Chapter 10 Meeting the Legal Requirements Complete Appendix module

#9 - May 4, 2011 3:30 – 4:45 1.25 Complete Appendix module. Formulate Chapter 11 Putting it All Together intervention to be put in place at the start of the next school year. Total Hours in Group Sessions = 11.25

If required instructional hours (15 for 1 credit; 30 for 2 credits, etc.) aren’t met during sessions listed above, please identify the hours remaining, and explain what participants will be required to do to complete them. Nine group sessions are 1.25 hours each for a total of 11.25 hours of instructional time. The remaining 3.5 hours + will be completed through reading, developing discussion notes, and outlining possible intervention strategies to share in group sessions.

Total Hours (excluding mealtimes): 15

4. Resources/Materials What resources/materials will be used (books, articles, videos, etc.)? Provide titles of materials and authors.

Required text will be provided by the district: Pyramid Response to Intervention: Buffum, Austin; Mattos, Mike; Weber, Chris 5. Evaluation Plan

Required Criteria to Receive Credit Attendance & Participation: Participants must be actively involved in all instructional hours provided. Receiving credit is dependent upon quality evidence completed by participants that appropriately reflects the amount of instructional hours this event provides. Please explain how or what the participants will do to provide evidence of the following required assessments of learning. Reflections on New Learning:  Participants will share personal reflections of new learning through discussion and Q & Q during the study session Application of New Learning:  Participants will be required to turn in an outline of strategies/interventions, taken from the reading and group discussions, to be shared with their PLCs for consideration as part of the development of a pyramid intervention plan for the school.

Submission Deadline Date of Assignments (if applicable) : May 4, 20__

5. Grading Rubric – NA – S/U grading is the only available grading for book studies.

Special Thanks to Rebecca Ward for granting permission to use this document as an “Example” for other submitters!