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Response to Intervention 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. RTI dialogue guides include 6 RTI topics:

  • Struggling Readers
  • Classroom Assessment
  • IQ Achievement discrepancy Model
  • What is RTI?
  • Rationale for RTI
  • Two Approaches to RTI

Use the documents below to create your customized set of materials to ground your dialogue around the implementation of IDEA 2004. These materials are based on the information in the online module developed by the IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University. View the full module.

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. Listed alphabetically under each guide, you will also find specific dialogue starters for local administrators, family, practitioners (teachers and related service providers), policymakers, and higher education.

To begin, review the Facilitator's Handbook, then choose the topic and the appropriate dialogue guide starters for your audience