Response to Intervention
What Is It?
To truly impact educational outcomes for struggling learners, school systems need to deliver high-quality instruction matched to individual student needs. Response to Intervention (RtI) is a way to offer graduated levels of support, targeted goals for progress, and frequent progress monitoring to address the educational needs of a large majority of children.
Identifying problems and providing interventions during the early stages of learning difficulties not only helps students overcome learning barriers, but also reduces the likelihood of referral for identification of a suspected disability. Whether you want to improve the quality of core instruction, strengthen scaffolds of support, or use instructional and behavioral data more effectively, Response to Intervention (RtI) is a powerful, research-based framework for boosting educational outcomes for all students.
How SEDL Can Help
Just for You
SEDL’s staff can increase your school and district’s capacity to implement RtI at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
We will
- Show your staff how to
- provide high quality instruction and interventions based on state content standards;
- monitor student progress;
- use data to make educational decisions;
- address a specific content area, like reading or math, that has been identified in your school or district’s improvement plan; and
- work with specific student populations such as culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
- Create a customized 2-year technical assistance plan to help you launch and refine RtI, with support offered for individual sites.
- Offer Web-based professional development on RtI topics such as formative assessments, differentiated instruction, intervention fidelity, working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners, and monitoring RtI implementation.
- Provide a final evaluation to address accountability requirements for the use of federal stimulus funds.
Stimulus Funds to Use
IDEA Recovery Funds for Services to Children and Youths With Disabilities
Contact Us
Please contact the SEDL Center for Professional Learning at 800-476-6861, ext. 6556, or e-mail services@sedl.org to learn more.