Library
The Library includes research and resources (developed outside of TCLD) related to:- multi-tiered interventions in reading, math, and behavior,
- progress-monitoring tools, and
- specific identification methods for learning disabilities based on RTI models.
Resources are evaluated by TCLD staff and expert reviewers prior to posting. New resources are reviewed and posted on an ongoing basis. Click here to see our resource review procedures.
There are 49 resources in the library.
Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: A Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction
Center on Instruction
This document developed by the Center on Instruction's Reading, Special Education and ELL Strands makes recommendations for improving literacy-related instruction in the content areas or across the entire school day, interventions for students reading below grade level, and recommendations for supporting literacy development in adolescent English language learners. Also included are comments from experts in response to questions about methods for improving academic literacy in adolescents and examples of state activities in support of improved adolescent literacy in California, Florida, Rhode Island, and Washington.
Grade level: 4-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Addressing Promises and Challenges of Response to Intervention Models for ELLs
National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
Alfredo Artiles' Keynote presented at the 31st annual conference of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (March 2008 - Melville, New York).
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
An Emerging Model: Three-tier Mathematics Intervention Model
The Access Center
This presentation, delivered at the State ISC (Information Sharing Community) Meeting on October 3 and 4, 2005 by Dr. Diane Bryant of The University of Texas at Austin, describes one example of a multi-tiered intervention model for math in grades K - 2. It includes a PowerPoint and transcript; other helpful resources on math interventions within a Response to Intervention framework are provided at the end of the PowerPoint. Audio of the event is also available online.
Grade level: K-2
File type: PowerPoint and WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Choosing a Progress Monitoring Tool that Works for You
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
This PowerPoint presentation from the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring 2006 Summer Institute introduced participants to a method to help them identify their needs and goals regarding student progress monitoring. They were then shown how to use the information from the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring review of tools to assist in choosing a scientifically based progress monitoring tool that fits their specific needs. The worksheet is also available for download.
Grade level: K-5
File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Monday, September 17, 2007
Data-Based Instructional Decision Making
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
This session was intended for those who have already been trained in CBM in reading and/or mathematics or those who are currently implementing CBM in reading or mathematics. Advanced issues covered included interpreting CBM reading and mathematics data, using the data base to inform instructional decision making, and selecting research-validated interventions. This session was geared toward teachers who are currently implementing CBM and administrators who are supporting CBM implementation.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF or PowerPoint
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
District RTI Initiatives
The IDEA Partnership
RTI and related initiatives of school districts and area education service centers are among the many descriptions of district activities, with links, shown in the RKR Library.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Education for Students with Reading/Learning Disabilities: What Makes It 'Special'
Center on Instruction
Presented at the 2006 OSEP Project Directors' Conference Program on July 31, 2006, by Dr. Sharon Vaughn of the Vaughn Gross Center at the University of Texas at Austin, this presentation discusses the importance of implementing effective, research-based instructional practices, specifically tiered intervention models, when educating students with disabilities.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
How Progress Monitoring Assists Decision Making in a Response to Instruction Framework
National Center for Student Progress Monitoring
Researchers at the National Center for Student Progress Monitoring studied a Response to Instruction model as a method of identifying children for special education services. To judge responsiveness, curriculum-based measures of oral reading fluency were used to monitor progress. This process generated a number of examples of how weekly progress monitoring, which includes systematic data interpretation and teacher action, is central to good decision making in an RtI framework. Two children are discussed whose profiles illustrate different aspects of the progress monitoring-RtI interface.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF or WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Identification of Students with LD Under IDEA 2004: Oregon Response to Intervention
Oregon Department of Education
This document provides information to assist school districts in designing and adopting an RTI approach that best fits the district, is technically sound, and is sustainable.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Implementing Student Progress Monitoring on a Statewide Basis
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
This PowerPoint presentation from the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring 2006 Summer Institute provided an overview of Pennsylvania’s statewide progress monitoring initiative. Included was a discussion of the Commonwealth’s approach and outcomes to progress monitoring, which includes the selection of pilot districts, a training plan, a seven-step process, a statewide roll-out of the model, and student outcome data. Challenges and lessons learned were also shared. The handouts are also available for download.
Grade level: K-5
File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Monday, September 17, 2007
Indicators of School Readiness for RtI: A Self-Assessment Tool
Colorado Department of Education
Colorado Department of Education has developed a variety of tools to assist schools in implementing an RtI model. The Indicators of School Readiness for RtI: A Self-Assessment Tool is a rubric that allows educators to assess how prepared their school is for RtI implementation and to formulate a school profile. This information can be used to determine next steps for RtI implementation.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF or WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
LD Talk Transcript: Reading and RTI: How Students Benefit from Multi-Tiered Instruction and Intervention
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Drs. Sharon Vaughn and Jeanne Wanzek answered questions about features of evidence-based reading instruction, the delivery of effective supplemental services, the importance of collecting and using data to inform instruction, and offered information about the implementation of RTI.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High School: A Look at Approaches to Tiered Intervention
National High School Center
This 2007 brief, developed by the National High School Center, describes issues relating to the implementation of RTI at the high school level. It provides an overview of RTI, describes current research on RTI and secondary education, and provides a case study of a high school that implemented RTI.
Grade level: 6-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Parent advocacy brief: A Parent's Guide to Response-to-Intervention
National Center for Learning Disabilities
NCLD has written a Parent's Guide to Response to Intervention to provide an overview of the RTI process, describe how it is implemented in schools and offer questions that parents can ask.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions
National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
In this brief, four key elements of culturally- and linguistically- responsive preferral intervention for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Problem-Solving Model Pilot: The Problem-Solving Process and Graphics
North Carolina Department of Education
This document outlines the framework for North Carolina's Problem Solving Model. Graphical representations of Response to Intervention and the NC Problem-Solving Model have been developed as tools to introduce both the conceptual framework and process.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Response to Intervention (RTI): 3 Tiered System A Model to Meet Student Needs in the Minneapolis Public Schools
Minneapolis Public Schools
This webinar was presented by Tom Hegranes, Ann Casey, and Doug Marston from the Minneapolis Public Schools on June 20, 2006. Since the mid-1990's, Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) has implemented a problem-solving approach to delivering early intervening services to struggling learners. This approach involves documenting student responses to interventions and, when satisfactory progress is not made, referring children for special education evaluation. The Minneapolis Problem-Solving Model is similar to the response to intervention approach (RtI) authorized under IDEA 2004.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention as it Relates to Early Intervening Services
National Association of State Directors of Special Education (Project Forum)
This is a proceedings document from a policy forum on RTI and EIS put on by Project Forum at NASDE as part of their cooperative agreement with OSEP. It provides legislative background, OSEP's description of RTI and a summary of barriers and recommendations generated by the participants.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
Response to Intervention Blueprints for Implementation: District and School Building Levels
National Association of State Directors of Special Education
This Blueprint provides step-by-step implementation guidelines, resources and tips from RtI implementers with many years of experience. The Blueprints are intentionally designed to provide a framework around which RtI implementation can be built.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Response to Intervention Dialogue Guides
The IDEA Partnership
These Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders in States and districts. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences in States and districts.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Response to Intervention in Pennsylvania
The IDEA Partnership
This presentation at the Supporting the Performance of Diverse Learners conference was sponsored by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Partnership at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, the Consortium for School Improvement at the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, and the Comprehensive School Reform Support and Capacity Building Program at the Education Alliance at Brown University.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PowerPoint
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention Podcasts
California Services for Technical Assistance and Training (CALStat), Sponsored by the California Department of Education
These podcasts feature recorded conversations with experts from the field on a variety of RTI topics. Currently, podcasts are available in audio and PDF or html formats on (a) RTI Overview; (b) RTI Literacy; and (c) Elk Grove Unified School District's Arlene Hein Elementary.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Response to Intervention Training for California Educators
California Department of Education
This web site contains an archive of the Webcast Training Series that began March 16, 2006. Top educators from across the nation provided information on implementing a multi-tier RTI system aligned with NCLB that is designed to improve child academic and behavioral outcomes. Materials related to each presentation are available under the "Materials" tab. Webcasts include: RTI-Why Now?, What is RTI?, Administrative Issues in RTI, Instruction in RTI Systems, RTI - Getting Started. Presenters in this series include Jack Fletcher, Dan Reschly, David Tilly, Sharon Kurns, and Amanda Van Der Heyden. As some of the most knowledgeable researchers in the field of Response to Intervention, their information will be invaluable to RCCs and state departments of education as they gain understanding of RTI and related implementation issues.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention, Joint White Paper
National Association of State Directors of Special Education
This paper is a joint product by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) and the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) at the Council for Exceptional Children. These two organizations have joined together to prepare an overview of Response to Intervention (RtI) to share with both general and special educators. It is their goal to engage the general education community in conversations and strategies to provide knowledge and technical assistance to help implement this successful approach to teaching all children, including students with disabilities.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to intervention: A case illustration.
National Association of State Directors of Special Education
Presented at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education Satellite Series in November 2005. This presentation identifies system, district, and building-level supports needed for RtI implementation.
Ernst, L., Miller, B., Robinson, W., & Tilly, W. D. (November 2005). Response to intervention: A case illustration.
Grade level: K-3
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention: An Implementation and Technical Assistance Guide for Districts and Schools
West Virginia Department of Education
Descriptions of the fundamental knowledge, skills, procedures and practices operationalized by the pilot schools are provided in this document, which serves as an administrator's and practitioner's guide for implementing and sustaining a K-3 response to intervention model.
Grade level: K-3
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File type: WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Response to Intervention: Online Modules: RTI Part 1 - An Overview
IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
This module outlines the differences between the IQ-achievement discrepancy model and the Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model. It also offers a brief overview of each tier in the RTI model and explains its benefits.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention: Online Modules: RTI Part 2 - Assessment
IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
This module explores in detail the assessment procedures integral to RTI. It also outlines how to use progress monitoring data to determine if a student is meeting the established performance criteria or if more intensive intervention is needed.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention: Online Modules: RTI Part 3 - Reading Instruction
IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
This module illustrates different research-based reading strategies that may be used with the Response-to-Intervention model to improve reading skills.
Grade level: K-3
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File type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Monday, September 17, 2007
Response to Intervention: Online Modules: RTI Part 4 - Putting It All Together
IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
This module synthesizes the information in RTI (Parts 1, 2, and 3) to provide teachers and other school personnel with a more comprehensive illustration of how to successfully implement RTI.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Monday, September 17, 2007
Responsive Instruction: Refining Our Work of Teaching All Children Virginia's "Response to Intervention" Initiative
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Education
This guidance document is designed to assist school divisions in understanding what RtI is, its origins in educational practice and research, its usefulness and value, and several ways it can be implemented.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Responsiveness to Intervention and Learning Disabilities
National Association of School Psychologists
A brief overview of RTI is provided, including promising features, as well as concerns, unanswered questions, and research needs. Issues related to implementation, including use as an eligibility mechanism, parent participation, structure, and professional roles are addressed.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
RtI Configuration Map
Colorado Department of Education
The RtI Configuration Map is an implementation configuration map developed through the FoR (Focus on Results) Sliver Grant project, a joint initiative of Douglas County School District and Cherry Creek School District. It allows educators to self-assess and become cognizant of the current level of implementation for each component of RtI.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF or WordDoc
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
RTI Online Module (Part 5): A Closer Look at Tier 3
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
This module describes which students will receive Tier 3 intervention, components of Tier 3 reading interventions, and students' response to this individualized intervention. This module also explores parent involvement and issues related to English language learners.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
RTI: Considerations for School Leaders
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
This module provides information about ways to build support for RTI, factors that should be addressed when implementing RTI, and methods of collecting data and evaluating the effectiveness of the RTI approach.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
School RTI Initiatives
The IDEA Partnership
Schools' involvement in Response to Intervention and related problem-solving activities are among the many descriptions of school initiatives, with links, shown in the RKR Library. New descriptions are added regularly.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Secondary Applications of RTI: A Guided Discussion
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
This presentation, sponsored by the National Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) summarizes a guided discussion on Secondary Applications of RTI with presenters, Donald D. Deshler and Joseph F. Kovaleski.
Grade level: 6-12
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File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Special Education Eligibility Standards from Iowa RtI
Iowa Department of Education
This 45 page document includes extensive information on assessments, working with culturally and linguistically diverse students, and determining discrepancy. Special Note: While this resource does address issues of special education identification, it also provides some very valuable information in other areas: (1) appropriate information on instructional integrity, (2) content on instructional need and progress monitoring, and (3) good model of how instruction can be addressed within a policy context.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
State RTI Initiatives
The IDEA Partnership
RTI and related initiatives of State education agencies are among the many descriptions of State activities, with links, shown in the RKR Library. New descriptions are added regularly.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Supporting Teachers who are Implementing Student Progress Monitoring: A Guide for Administrators
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
This session discussed issues related to successfully implementing CBM at the school or district level, including administrative leadership and support for staff. Participants learned how to structure a CBM implementation process that includes and supports teachers as they implement this important practice, as well as how CBM can fit within your Response to Intervention model. Templates for planning implementation were utilized throughout the session. In addition, this session addressed how to support the implementation of CBM in classes that have students with disabilities and/or English Language Learners.
Grade level: K-12
File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Teaching Exceptional Children Special Issue: Responsiveness to Intervention
Council for Exceptional Children
In this special issue of Teaching Exceptional Children, developed by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), a cogent framework for understanding Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) as a means of preventing academic failure and identifying students as having learning disabilities (LD) is presented.
Grade level: K-12
File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Technical Assistance Paper - The Response to Intervention (RtI) Model
Florida Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services
This technical assistance paper, from the Florida Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services, delineates the purpose for RTI, explains how it should be implemented in different content areas, and discusses the use of RTI in determining eligibility for special education services.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The Prevention and Identification of Math Disabilities Using RtI
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
This presentation, developed by researchers at the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and given by Lynn Fuchs at the CEC conference in April 2006, provides on overview of a study in which RtI methods were implemented in first grade classrooms in six schools and focused on the improvement of math skills.
Grade level: K-3
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File type: PowerPoint
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The Secondary Literacy Instruction and Intervention Guide
Stupski Foundation
This resource provides a clear, coherent and replicable district-level model incorporating evidence-based and research-validated literacy resources to meet the differentiated needs of struggling adolescents.
Grade level: 6-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
In this session, an overview of Response to Intervention (RTI) was provided. In addition, specifics about how to use CBM in reading and math were explained for: * Identifying students in need of Tier 2 intervention, * Determining whether response to Tier 2 intervention is inadequate and therefore special education may be appropriate, * Applying CBM decision making in Tier 2 special education to formulate effective individual intervention plans, and * Determining whether Tier 3 special education response is sufficient to consider exiting special education.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Using Response to Intervention for Washington's Students
Washington State Special Education, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
This document was designed to explain the principles and components of the RTI process provide guidelines related to decision making within a RTI system, recommend how to use RTI data in identifying specific learning disabilities, answer common questions, and identify additional resources.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
Utah's Three Tier Model of Reading Instruction
Utah State Office of Education
This document was developed to provide Utah educators with a process for delivering quality, research-based instruction using Utah's Core Curricula by guiding educators K-12 in implementing a 3 Tier Model of Reading Instruction.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
What is RTI? webinar
National Center on RTI
This webinar described basic concepts of RTI and how it can be implemented in schools. Presenter Dr. Daryl Mellard shared examples to illustrate how teams can be organized within schools to implement RTI.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
What is Scientifically-Based Research on Progress Monitoring
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
When teachers use systematic progress monitoring to track their students progress in reading, mathematics, or spelling, they are better able to identify students in need of additional or different forms of instruction, they design stronger instructional programs, and their students achieve better. This document from the National Center for Student Progress Monitoring first describes progress monitoring procedures for which experimental evidence demonstrates these effects. Then, an overview of the research is presented.
Grade level: K-12
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File type: PDF File
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, May 01, 2007