(NAME-MCE) NCCRESt Professional Learning Module: Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention (RTI)

[Anselmo Villanueva]

National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)

For more information, go to:

http://nccrest.org/professional/culturally_responsive_response_to_intervention.html

New NCCRESt Professional Learning Module: Culturally Responsive
Response to Intervention (RTI)

Culturally responsive educational systems are grounded in the belief
that culturally and linguistically diverse students can excel in
educational endeavors when their cultures, languages, and experiences
are valued and used to facilitate learning. NCCRESt's newest
professional learning module presents Response to Intervention (RTI)
as a culturally responsive framework for ensuring evidence-based,
high-quality opportunities to learn in inclusive settings for all
students, including those who are culturally and linguistically
diverse. Culturally responsive RTI frameworks have the potential to
address issues of disproportionate representation for diverse students
in special education programs by providing access to curriculum and
instructional practice grounded in research that attends to the
powerful role of culture in teaching and learning.

This topic is especially timely for the many schools and districts who
are utilizing Response to Intervention models to improve outcomes for
all students and to reduce disproportionality in special education.
Check out our Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention
professional learning module to learn research-grounded practices for
effectively implementing RTI.

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National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)

Project Overview

The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
(NCCRESt), a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Special Education Programs, provides technical assistance
and professional development to close the achievement gap between
students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and
their peers, and reduce inappropriate referrals to special education.
The project targets improvements in culturally responsive practices,
early intervention, literacy, and positive behavioral supports.
Mission

Supporting state and local school systems to assure a quality,
culturally responsive education for all students.
Goals

NCCRESt supports the implementation of the Individual with
Disabilities Education Act as it extends the goals of the No Child
Left Behind Act of 2001. To accomplish these goals, NCCRESt will:

- Develop accurate baselines and analyze the impact of change efforts
on placement and outcomes for students from culturally and
linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Synthesize and expand research-based practices for culturally and
linguistically diverse students.
- Leverage the continued improvement of schools with large proportions
of culturally and linguistically diverse student populations through
state technical assistance plans, collaborative work with existing
technical assistance networks, asset mapping, continuous school
improvement processes, and regional and state leadership academies.
- Engage a national discourse across local, professional practice, and
policy communities on improving educational outcomes for culturally
and linguistically diverse students.
 - Develop products, including research syntheses, policy briefs, and
public communication activities that inform a variety of audiences
about effective and evidence-based teaching and school organizational
practices that support successful educational outcomes for students
from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Elizabeth B. Kozleski, Project Director
Mary Lou Fulton College of Education
PO Box 872011
Farmer Bldg #316
Tempe, AZ 85287-2011
Phone: 480-965-0391
Fax: 480-727-7012
Email: Elizabeth.Kozleski at asu.edu

Elaine Mulligan, Project Coordinator
NCCRESt, NIUSI, NIUSI-LeadScape
Mary Lou Fulton College of Education
PO Box 872011
Farmer Bldg #140
Tempe, AZ 85287-2011
Phone: 480-965-8378
Fax: 480-727-7012
Email: Elaine.Mulligan at asu.edu