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Validated Intervention: Intervention supported by education research to be effective with identified needs of sets of students.
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"As a principal, my quest for providing meaningful reading instruction for students was shared by my teaching staff. While we felt we were doing great things for students in the area of reading, our state assessment showed that, in some cases, 50% of our students were not at grade level in reading..." [read full story]
- Bob Heimbaugh, K-5 Principal, Wyoming
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Why should we undertake Response to Intervention (RTI) when we already have several other initiatives going on in our district?
Response from Ann Casey, Ph.D .: RTI is a framework that could be used as an organizing tool for all of our work in education. The main intent of RTI is to ensure students receive targeted instruction early so all students can be successful. In RTI, we integrate measurement/data systems to focus instruction by using a problem solving process...[read full response ]
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Ann Casey
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Ann Casey
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Dr. Ann Casey is currently Director of the Minnesota Response to Intervention Center, which is funded by a Minnesota Legislative grant to the St. Croix River Education District. Her position entails providing professional development and coaching support for implementation of RtI to school personnel in Minnesota.
In addition, she is currently co-principal investigator of an OSEP funded project, Demonstrating Progress Monitoring. Her disciplinary background is School Psychology, but she has had other roles in schools including Early Literacy Director, and Special Education Administration.
Ann spent 19 years in the Minneapolis Public Schools where she was a major contributor to the development of the Minneapolis Problem Solving Model, an early form of Response to Intervention. One of her educational passions has been early literacy instruction, and she has been active in advocating for systems changes that are necessary so more children leave their primary years well prepared to be proficient readers.
Other areas of professional interest include behavioral consultation and the problem-solving process. Dr. Casey received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Educational Psychology where Jim Ysseldyke and Stan Deno were her mentors.
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