Tennessee Tiered Supports Center (TSC) is proud to announce Ripley Middle School has been selected as an RTI2-B Model of Demonstration School—Bronze Level for 2021-2022. There are over 1,800 schools across the state of Tennessee and each year a small percentage of schools meet criteria to be selected as an RTI2-B Model of Demonstration School.
Ripley Middle School has been a participant in training and technical assistance and has undergone the process of implementing a positive and proactive behavioral systems framework for all students. The RTI2-B framework consists of identifying common behavioral expectations across campus, teaching, re-teaching, reinforcing, and regularly acknowledging students, faculty, and families for exhibiting these expectations. Ripley Middle School has applied this framework to improve their school climate and culture, student engagement, and school connectedness. In meeting this award criteria, Ripley Middle School demonstrated use of school-wide behavioral data to inform teaching practices and levels of support provided to students based on need. Twice a year, they also reflected on overall fidelity to guide their implementation of the RTI2-B framework.
As an RTI2-B Model of Demonstration School—Bronze Level for 2021-2022, Ripley Middle School can now serve as a RTI2-B mentor to other schools across Tennessee.
RTI2-B training, technical assistance, and supports were provided to schools by Tennessee TSC (formerly Tennessee Behavior Supports Project), a technical assistance center funded under a Grant Contract with the State of Tennessee.