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Primary Levels of Intervention: Interventions that are preventive and proactive; implementation is school-wide or by whole classroom; often connected to broadest tier (core or foundational tier) of a tiered inter... More »

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"We started Response to Intervention (RTI) as a way to meet the many needs of our students." [Read full story »]

— Linda Dittmer
retired principal, IA

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Are there lists of research-based interventions for secondary and tertiary levels of both RTI and Positive Behavior Support (PBS)?

Response from George Sugai, Ph.D.: RTI is a larger problem solving framework for improving decision making based on student responsiveness to intervention for both academic and social behavior. On the behavior side of RTI, positive behavior support provides an organizational structure for establishing a continuum of behavioral interventions for all students...[read full response]

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Candyce Ihnot

Candyce Ihnot, M.A. taught reading as a classroom teacher, a special education teacher, and a reading teacher from 1970 until retiring in 2002. She developed the Read Naturally fluency strategy while working on her master’s degree.

Candyce received the 1996 National Urban Education Teacher Recognition Award for developing the Read Naturally strategy and for teaching teachers how to use it. She continues to train teachers, develop curriculum, and teach reading in a reading lab in Minneapolis, MN.

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