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Response to Intervention Dialogue Guides: Intermediate Collection
Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences in States and districts. In this manner, stakeholders all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues.

Dialogue guides have 3 parts:

* Facilitator's Handbook to help you think about inviting others into a dialogue:
* Topical documents with content information to ground the dialogue, and
* Dialogue Starters, written by stakeholders, that identify questions to guide the dialogue

Dialogue guides are written for general audiences that includes many different stakeholders: administrators, family, practitioners (teachers and
related service providers), policymakers, and those in higher education.


To begin, review the Facilitator's Handbook, then choose the topic and the appropriate dialogue starters.



RTI Dialogue Guides: Intermediate Collection


Essential Dialogue: RTI Dialogue Guides

Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences in States and districts. In this manner, stakeholders can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues. Each dialogue guide title has questions written specifically for a target audience by representatives of that audience. These are the foundation guides to create dialogue on RTI. Click on the link above to find dialogue guides on 6 basic RTI topics:
  • Struggling Readers
  • Classroom Assessment
  • IQ Achievement discrepancy Model
  • What is RTI?
  • Rationale for RTI
  • Two Approaches to RTI



Extended Dialogue: RTI Dialogue Guides


Source Document:
Leading Learning Communities: Standards for what principals should know and be able to do
. Second Edition. National Association of Elementary School Principals. 2008. pp 49&50. Available at: http://www.naesp.org/resources/1/Pdfs/LLC2-ES.pdf
Abstract:
Leading Learning Communities; Standards for what principals should know and be able to do.
Dialogue Starter:
Develop a Learning Culture that is Adaptive, Collaborative, Innovative and Supportive


Source Document:
A Family Guide to Response to Intervention. Available at: http://www.nhspecialed.org/documents/RTI%20Booklet.pdf. Developed by Parent Information Center with funding from New Hampshire Department of Education’s SIG II Grant
Dialogue Starter:

Family Guide to RTI


Source Document:
Universal Design For Learning: Policy Challenges and Recommendations
. Sopko, K. (April, 2009). Project Forum at National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education. Available at: http://www.projectforum.org/docs/UDL-PolicyChallengesandRecommendations.pdf.
Dialogue Starter:
Response To Intervention and Universal Design for Learning


Source Document:
What is RTI? RTI Action Network. [Excerpted from RTI Action Network website, section ‘Learn About RTI’]
Available at:  http://www.rtinetwork.org/Learn/What/ar/WhatIsRTI
Adapted Text:
What Is RTI?
Dialogue Starter:
RTI:  A Process