Rapid Response: Response to Intervention Implementation and Monitoring

In 2007, two state departments of education (SDEs) served by the Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) requested information on monitoring tools or instruments to assess the quality of district/school implementation of response to intervention. This rapid response offers an update to the information previously provided. In updating this response, SECC staff consulted the research base on implementation, including the work of Dean Fixsen of the National Implementation Research Network and the State Implementation of Scaling-Up Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. Staff also reviewed the monitoring, self-assessment, and planning tools identified in the previous rapid response on this issue and conducted searches of SDE Web sites for revised or additional information regarding RtI implementation and monitoring processes.