Response to Intervention

What is RtI?
RtI comes from the re-authorization of IDEA
(Individuals With Disabilities Act). It involves the
practice of providing quality research-based
instruction and various interventions for students who
are having difficulties in any learning area.
RtI is intended to be a general education, school-wide
system. All students will receive quality education
with progress monitoring.
There will be an RtI problem solving team consisting
of several staff members from the school.


Special education is not a separate entity in
RtI, but rather a support to interventions and
instruction.
This program has been put in place to exhaust
all options before putting students into special
education

RTIs Advantages
Early intervention for academic or behavior
difficulties
On-going progress monitoring measured with data
Frequently modified goals
Prevention of unnecessary special education referrals
The ability to look at specific learning disabilities
such as auditory processing versus just not paying
attention.
What is the Multi-Tier Intervention
Model?

Tier 1
Green Zone
80-90%
Tier 2
Yellow Zone
5-15%
Tier 3
Red Zone
1-7%
Universal/ Green Zone

Will most likely be 80-90% of your class
Data-driven conversations using sources such
as MAP, DIBELS, DRA, IDEL, etc which
help to identify proficiency levels
GVC- Guaranteed Viable Curriculum

Green Zone Materials

Materials used in the green zone for the
general population may include:
McGraw Hill
Avenues
Lindamood Bell (such as whole group seeing stars
or VV)
PBS
Targeted/ Yellow Zone

May consist of 5-15% of your classroom
Targeted, specific interventions for students whose academic
performance or behavior lag behind the norm for their grade
and educational setting
Available in general education settings
Opportunity to increase exposure to curriculum and narrow the
focus
Allow for sufficient time for interventions (approx. 6 weeks)
Use supplemental curriculum resources (Phonics Street,
Seeing Stars, etc)
Yellow Zone Materials

Materials used as a supplement for
intervention may include:
Read Naturally
LMB
Phonics Street
Reading Basics
Second Step
Peer mediation
Intensive/ Red Zone
May consist of 1-7% of your classroom
Intensive, individualized interventions for students
who have an insufficient response to research based
interventions in the first two tiers
Frequent progress monitoring (academic &
behavioral)
Constant and consistent teacher reflections and
modifications for student
Goal is still to find a successful intervention

Red Zone Materials

Materials used to supplement may include:
F.A.S.T.
Read Naturally
LMB (intensive)
Individual counseling or therapy
Behavior plan
Functional Behavior Assessment
What does the process look like?
Teachers identify students who may be having
difficulty in any area (academic or behavior) and
begin to collect data.
After a significant time of progress monitoring and
data collection, a teacher will determine if the student
will need to continue with the RTI process
Fill out the necessary paperwork documenting all
interventions tried and data collected
Turn paperwork into Katie
Katie will review paperwork and set a date for initial
RTI meeting.
For the most part, parents are not invited to the first
meeting, but it is the responsibility of the teacher to
have that communication with the parents letting
them know the concerns you are having with their
child
Bring all data to first meeting so that RTI team can
begin to brainstorm additional interventions and data
collection methods
RTI team will follow up with parent and teacher after
approximately 6 weeks
We will follow this process until the RTI team feels
that additional recommendations need to be in place

Who Makes up the RtI Team?

The RtI team will consist of the following team members:
Referring teacher (s)
Primary teacher
Intermediate teacher
Specials teacher
Learning Specialist
Administrator
ELA coach

This team will be consistent and will review all cases of RtI. It is the
responsibility of this team to review and pursue all avenues of intervention
for a student. It is a collective gathering of ideas and strategies that will
help our students succeed academically and behaviorally.
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