Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered model of instruction that provides early intervention for students who are struggling. It involves universal screenings to identify at-risk students, increasingly intensive interventions at three tiers, and frequent progress monitoring to determine if an intervention is effective. An RTI team helps identify student skill deficits, chooses research-based interventions, and decides when a student moves between tiers. While RTI could be beneficial for the school district, more research would need to be done to determine how to implement it locally.

1. Response to Intervention RTI

2. PLC: RTI Smart goal Research RtI instruction See how it could be applied in our school district Determining what resources are already in place

3. What Is RTI? A multi-tiered model of instruction which provides early intervention At each Tier, interventions are provided with increasing intensity to bring the student’s deficient skills up to grade level At each Tier, students are monitored frequently to determine the effectiveness of an intervention

4. The RtI Steps Define – Analyze – Implement – Evaluate –

5. A typical 3-tiered model Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 General Education Classroom Universal Screenings All Students Instructional Focus: Large Group Instructional Focus: Small Group Guided Study Instructional Focus: Individual & Small Group Academic Behavior

6. Purposes of RTI RTI Identifies students at risk and provides early intervention RTI enhances the general curriculum for all students and provides intervention and remediation RTI determines a student’s response to instruction and intervention and could be used as one part of disability determination Screening & Prevention Early Intervention Disability Determination

7. Tier 1 Interventions are provided in the general education classroom Often at this level, decisions about specific interventions are determined by the classroom teacher

8. Progress Monitoring Progress Monitoring Conducted frequently Can judge in weeks rather than months whether intervention plan is effective Decision Based on Data Progress – intervention can be discontinued If not making sufficient progress can be modified or Tier 3 could be referred All data is documented

9. Tier 2 Interventions are individualized and tailored to the unique needs of struggling learners Reserved for students who have failed to respond successfully to Tier 1 strategies. Interventions may become more frequent Interventions are typically conducted within a small group setting RTI Team involvement will occur at this level Written parent notification is done at this level

10. Tier 3 Interventions are the most intensive Interventions become more frequent Interventions can be in a small group or individually

11. RTI Team Team is comprised of classroom teachers, administrators, psychologists, etc. – anyone I-S wants to include. Team helps to identify the student’s specific skill deficits Team helps to identify the appropriate research-based interventions Team helps to decide when a student needs to move to the next Tier

12. RtI and ISSD Response to Intervention seems like a program which will fit well in our School District but what form it will take is unclear at this time.