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This page is designed to give you a brief overview of what is Response to Intervention, and how it is best utilized. You will find PowerPoint presentations with Presenters’ Guides to direct your study. This section can also help you identify what you currently have in place that resembles the Response to Intervention process with regards to serving ALL students.

Leaving No Child Behind: Response to Intervention Fundamentals for Educators and their Partners

Introductory PowerPoint:

Leaving No Child Behind: Response to Intervention Fundamentals for Educators and their Partners--PowerPoint Presentation

Here you will find the definition of Response to Intervention and a description of the Response to Intervention model. In brief, Response to Intervention serves to give you a set of tools to assist in meeting the needs of all students.

RTI
  • Is a child/family/community-centered process for improving learning that is school-based and focuses on student outcomes;
  • Includes data-guided instruction which is collaborative in nature involving related services and community resources;
  • Provides continuous monitoring of student progress at all tiers;
  • Offers positive connections of meeting student needs;
  • Fits into school improvement process;
  • Involves and communicates with parents throughout the process; and
  • Uses scientifically-based interventions.



Introductory Presenter's Guide:

Leaving No Child Behind: Response to Intervention Fundamentals for Educators and their Partners--Presenter’s Guide

This presenter’s guide is intended to support the PowerPoint slides by offering
  • Suggested background/and or extension reading;
  • Talking points relative to each slide;
  • Suggested activities to enhance learning opportunities for participants;
  • Tips to facilitate the professional growth experience; and
  • Suggested readings for extension of learning.

There are three distinct sections of this document, “Preparation”, “Presentation/ Process”, and “Supplementary Materials”. In the supplementary materials section are handouts that may be copied and used with the presentation.


Response to Intervention: Policy Considerations and Implementation


Intermediate PowerPoint

Response to Intervention: Policy Considerations and Implementation--PowerPoint Presentation

 

This presentation is an overview of Response to Intervention as presented in Response to Intervention: Policy Considerations and Implementation, published by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. The document was written by nine practitioners and was created to provide policy guidance to states and local education agencies on conceptual issues related to Response to Intervention implementation.

 

Intermediate Presenter's Guide

Response to Intervention: Policy Considerations and Implementation--Presenter’s Guide

 

This can be used for staff and administrator professional development. An important aspect of working with this document is connecting the ideas in the presentation to practices in your school district. Coaching notes are provided in this presentation for use with different constituent groups. This presentation has intermediate level content and is intended for audiences with “a working level” knowledge of Response to Intervention.

 

 

IRIS MODULE: Response to Intervention (Part 1): An Overview



Working together, the partners identified the IRIS MODULE: Response to Intervention (Part 1): An Overview as an appropriate source to ground beginning discussion of RTI. The dialogue guides below are based on the information in this online Module. All IRIS materials are freely available for use via the Website and may be printed without permission. The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement is located at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Please note: When you click on the module link, you will leave the IDEA Partnership website. In order to return to the IDEA Partnership website, you may want to bookmark the IDEA Partnership website now.



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 all over the country 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. Click on the link above to find dialogue guides on 6 RTI topics:
  • Struggling Readers
  • Classroom Assessment
  • IQ Achievement discrepancy Model
  • What is RTI?
  • Rationale for RTI
  • Two Approaches to RTI