Response-to-Intervention (RTI)
What is it?
Response-to-Intervention (RTI) integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities or other disabilities.
RTI, as a state policy, went in to effect in 2012. RTI derives from the re-authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law that provides the federal rules for special education.
Why RTI?
Underlying the RTI initiative is the research on early intervention that suggests that many struggling students (especially in reading) can be caught up to grade level and that currently too many of these students are simply classified as pupils with learning disabilities, without ever having participated in any intensive early intervention.
The main goal of any RTI is to resolve the learning difficulties of students. RTI initiatives must be based on core research-based principles and follow a three-tiered model.
Features of RTI that schools should achieve:
What does this mean for your school?
Response-to-Intervention (RTI) integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities or other disabilities.
RTI, as a state policy, went in to effect in 2012. RTI derives from the re-authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the law that provides the federal rules for special education.
Why RTI?
Underlying the RTI initiative is the research on early intervention that suggests that many struggling students (especially in reading) can be caught up to grade level and that currently too many of these students are simply classified as pupils with learning disabilities, without ever having participated in any intensive early intervention.
The main goal of any RTI is to resolve the learning difficulties of students. RTI initiatives must be based on core research-based principles and follow a three-tiered model.
Features of RTI that schools should achieve:
- Provide early identification and intervention with students who struggle with learning to read (and other areas).
- Develop alternative method of locating students with disabilities.
- Provide effective, intensive, evidence-based early intervention. (Click here to check the research on the effectiveness of any reading program you decide to use. )
- Monitor each student’s progress, using data-based documentation.
- Produce accelerated reading (and math) growth to meet annual yearly progress (AYP) criteria.
- Create a multi-tiered problem-solving team (can incorporate your school's PPT)
- Provide high-quality professional development to teachers of lowest-performing students.
What does this mean for your school?
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Resources & Structures you might have in place:
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Resources & Structures you might need support in:
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Who can help me implement an RTI system?
is the RTI specialist at CFN 107. Email her for more information.
References & Resources
- New York State RtI Website: click here to access an excellent list of intervention programs.
- What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-Based Designs by Richard L. Allington
- How RTI Works in Secondary Schools by Evelyn S. Johnson, Lori Smith, and Monica L. Harris
- http://www.reading.org/Resources/ResourcesByTopic/ResponseToIntervention/Overview.aspx
- http://nrcld.org/topics/rti.html
- http://nasdse.org/
Network Schools that are implementing an RTI model: Lab Middle School, LoMA, Brooklyn Frontiers, Metropolitan Soundview.
