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Elementary and Secondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) [original passage in 1965], renamed the "No Chi... More »

"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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Michelle Agne

Michelle Agne
 Michelle Agne

Michelle Agne is a master’s and certification student in the School Psychology program at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She attained her B.A. in psychology at Ohio University in 2004.

Michelle has been a graduate assistant with the Pennsylvania RTI Pilot Project since 2007. Previously, she was a Behavioral Health Worker at CATCH Inc. (Citizens Acting Together Can Help), a program involved with Philadelphia City Schools, from 2005-2007.


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