Congratulations, Altruria!

Altruria Elementary School has been selected as an RTI2-B Model of Demonstration School—Silver 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. As an RTI2-B Model of Demonstration School—Silver Level for 2021-2022, Altruria Elementary School can now serve as a RTI2-B mentor to other schools across Tennessee.

What is RTI2-B?
RTI2-B framework is a process for implementing a positive and proactive behavioral system 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.

What does this mean?
Altruria Elementary School has applied this framework to improve their school climate and culture, student engagement, and school connectedness. In meeting this award criteria, Altruria Elementary 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.