Real Talk Intervention

Your at-risk student is looking for your support. Your GT student is looking for a challenge. We've talked a lot about intervention for your struggling students, but what do you do when you have gifted and talented students who are struggling? The struggle may look different when you're working with advanced courses and high achieving students, but the struggle is real all the same. Today on the podcast we have veteran AP teacher, multiple Teacher of the Year winner Valerie Minor on to talk about how she intervenes and differentiates for advanced students as well as what she's learned in her transition into a special education co-teach setting this year. You can listen to the podcast here or follow us and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Give us a like on Facebook, rate or review us, and please share! We love to hear from our listeners!

Last week Texas released the preliminary school grades under their new A-F accountability system. Superintendents across the state have come out publicly condemning this system. To say this one is controversial is putting it mildly. Stefanie and I researched the new accountability system for you, and we lay out some of the details of how this new system works. We also discuss what we think of this new ratings system, what it means for school districts, and what it means for intervention. You don't want to miss this one! Listen to our conversation here ! Follow us on Feedburner: feeds.feedburner.com/realtalkintervention Music provided by The Creative Commons. http://www.bensound.com

It's the first full episode of Real Talk Intervention - the podcast! Tune in to hear our conversation on standards-based education and the standards-based classroom. Should you be writing your student expectation on the board every morning? All along has THIS actually been the secret to high levels of student engagement? Probably not! But listen to find out what we think. Stefanie shares an intervention success with ELL learners and shares some curriculum suggestions for ELLs and other struggling English learners. You can follow us at http://feeds.feedburner.com/RealTalkIntervention Or listen to the episode here: The Standards Based Classroom If you want to be a part of our next episode, please leave feedback here or on our Facebook page: Like us here! Music courtesy of the Creative Commons www.bensound.com

Who are we? We are a community of secondary educators implementing Response to Intervention in middle school and high school settings. Why are we here? I don't know about your Google search history, but this is what happens to me... Don't get me wrong; we all know the basics. RTI is this federally mandated initiative at all grade levels. So there ain't no party like a response to intervention party because a response to intervention party is  mandatory . But how do we actually DO it in the complicated environment of secondary education? The rules and regulations, the paperwork, the meetings, scheduling - all of it quickly becomes Sisyphean, especially in the secondary setting where we are dealing with an extremely high number of students, in larger and larger classroom settings, with a huge range of both skill and will. Secondary educators - we need HELP. And what sort of help are we actually getting? Are you tired of hearing intervention strategies that sou...