Welcome Summer!
The end of the school year always seems a little like New Year's Eve. It is an opportunity to sit for a minute and reflect on the school year that has just zipped by. What celebrations do you have from the 2023-2024 school year? Here are just a few of ours:
- The Cadre 11 and Middle School districts finished their final year with ORTIi! These districts persevered for 6 years of really challenging implementation work. Building all the components of a multi-tiered system of support is never easy (and never really "done") but doing so during a global pandemic was extra challenging. Thank you to all those amazing District and Building Implementation teams for sticking with the work!
- Our Virtual Reading Symposium and other video content reached a huge number of participants. Our YouTube channel had over 55,000 views this year and was mostly accessed from the US, Canada and Australia. We are proud to provide content that educators across the world can use to grow their learning about MTSS and evidence-based reading instruction.
- The in-person conference that we hosted along with NWPBIS was also a huge success. It was terrific to get everyone together in Portland to provide really amazing sessions on all things MTSS - Social Emotional Learning, PBIS, Reading Instruction and more.
We also have exciting things to look forward to for 2023-2024.
- We have hired 3 new coaches and will introduce them in the September newsletter!
- We have selected new school districts for Cadre 12 as well as those that will receive targeted support from ORTIi. We are looking forward to supporting a new group of folks who are focused on building an equitable MTSS for reading to ensure ALL students become readers in their setting.
We hope you all have a terrific summer!
The ORTII Team
Ryan, Beth, Lisa, and Matt