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Welcome to IDEA Partnership's Collaborative Work on Response to Intervention!


The IDEA Partnership is dedicated to improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities by joining state agencies and stakeholders through shared work and learning. This dedication has been operationalized in the collaborative work on RTI of 65 partner organization representatives, five technical assistance providers, and a number of state and local organizations and agencies.  
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  • Our Charge is to think about Response to Intervention from stakeholder perspectives at all knowledge levels, to look at things differently, and to speak to practical application by taking the ideas of researchers and making them tangible to those in the field.


  • Our Goal is to provide you with access to a comprehensive collection of materials and resources to assist you in furthering understanding of Response to Intervention (RTI) processes. We hope this collection complements your current work, and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues and peers.



This document provides the unifying beliefs that are the foundation for our collaborative efforts on RTI. You might want to share these among the groups with whom you work to build a common sense of purpose.


  • Glossary provides key terms and acronyms associated with RTI.  

 


The collection is designed to assist you in learning more about Response to Intervention and best practices for its implementation on all levels-- federal, state, and local. The following links help frame your work around RTI for your stakeholders:



Representatives of national organizations, who are engaged with their stakeholders on the issue of RTI, offer suggestions for sharing and dialogue based on the amount of time available to you.  Additionally, suggested activities, materials, and resources were identified as possible valuable tools for your use.


This section is intended for those who are new to the term Response to Intervention. It gives a brief overview of the topic and how it is best utilized to help you meet your goals for student improvement (e.g. monitoring individual student learning, adequate yearly progress of subgroups). These materials can also help you identify elements of your current process so you can build on what is already in place and create a comprehensive system for serving all students.

The Presenter's Guide and accompanying PowerPoint provide 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. The Dialogue Guides provide opportunity to dialogue on the topics and concepts with all stakeholders.

 

 

This section is intended for those who have a more advanced awareness of RTI.  It includes some introductory information and provides detail on the identification process for students with learning disabilities and behavior disorders. You will find a PowerPoint presentation and Presenter’s Guide (under development) designed to share with audiences who have knowledge and/or some experience with RTI.  It addresses the questions of how to serve the entire student body for overall school improvement (policy and professional development issues), while individualizing the attention needed for identifying and attending to the needs of struggling students.

 

 

This section provides Response to Intervention information that extends our thinking about how to apply the RTI process to ALL children and youth within our education systems. The Dialogue guides for this collection moves our thinking and conversation about the early childhood and secondary levels.  To access these dialogue starters and their source document, please visit Dialogue Guides: Emerging Collection.



 This page is designed to give access to resources for states, districts, and schools. The content on this page was updated to provide the most recent information from states across the country by providing a link to the  National Center on Response to Intervention (NCRTI) State Database.


 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. The section titles below provide a direct link to the Dialogue Guides for your convenience.

RTI Dialogue Guides: Beginning Collection
RTI Dialogue Guides: Intermediate Collection
RTI Dialogue Guides: Advanced Collection
RTI Dialogue Guides: Emerging Collection

Your experiences help the Partnership and our readers understand issues and perspectives.  Please take a minute to share:

Your RTI initiative and the strategies involved
What strategies are working and reasons for success
What problems (barriers) you have encountered and how they were solved
Innovative approaches to interventions in all 3 tiers
How you promote RTI across groups and organizations.

 

To help us understand how the Partnership collection is useful, please take a minute to share:

How you used the collection
Your reactions to the collection
Your ideas for improving the collection