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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. These components are the framework...[read full response]

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Posted by Frank D., on May 21, 2008

Can you provide any additional resources on this? I'm doing some background research and would appreciate any further reading to help me along.

Posted by RtiGirl, on May 25, 2008

Sounds like a great school-wide intervention plan! Thanks for sharing it!

Posted by Kathy Morishige, on July 27, 2008

I thought about the 3 C's along with the systemic approach--Consistently Collaborate and Care. It's so important to keep the students first in all that we do. At our school we are doing Silent Sustained Reading at all grade levels, and everyone will be reading the same book. In addition, all of the math teachers will be teaching a ninth grade math class, and will be sharing their lessons with each other to ensure that everyone is on the same page. Classroom rules will be consistent as well for all freshmen. Consistency provides reinforcement; reinforcement strengthens learning!

Posted by Kathie Z, on August 01, 2008

I think that by first correctly identifying a problem that actually affects all teachers is brilliant. This will ensure that the teachers will have a vested interest in seeing this RTI project through. The other part of this RTI project is in having tangible results. Both students and teachers now have a vested interested in attaining positive results. For the students, there is the food reward, and for the teachers, the homework will now be turned in. This is most likely the best way to obtain co-operation across the board in secondary schools.

Posted by Tiana Heen, on August 02, 2008

Implementing this at a Middle School can be hard becaise the students don't all share the same teacher. I think it is a good idea to find common problem that all teahers share and work on strategies to solve these problems together. At the middle school I work at, 7th grade teachers are on one "team" and 8th grade teachers on another. Each team meets to go over general class problems and strategies that every teacher can live with and implement in their own classroom.

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