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Disproportionality: The over- or under-representation of minority students in special education. In other words, there is a disproportionate number, either a significantly larger or smaller percentage... More »
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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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Ongoing Student Assessment |
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 Stanley Deno of the University of Minnesota, perhaps best known for his research leading to the development of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) progress monitoring procedures and their use in the RTI model, explains why progress measures have become a central component of the newly developed RTI approach.
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Universal Screening A central component of RTI is early screening of all students to identify those at risk for academic and/or behavior difficulties.
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Progress MonitoringProgress measures can be used as regularly and as frequently as necessary throughout the school year.
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Data-Based Decision MakingWithin RTI, decisions about instruction and intervention are directed by student outcome data.
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