Tertiary Levels of Intervention: Interventions that relate directly to an area of need; are supplementary to and are different from primary and secondary interventions; are usually implemented individually or in v... 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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Diversity and Disproportionality

Diversity and DisproportionalityArticles in this section address many aspects of working with diverse student populations. In the introductory article, John Hosp of Florida State University presents background information on the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education programs and describes how the core principles of  RTI have the potential to address issues surrounding disproportionatlity.


Read "Response to Intervention and the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education"


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