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.
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A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners
The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners, developed by NCCREST, includes information on how best to implement Response to Intervention (RTI) in a way that will provide an equitable educational opportunity for students who are English Language Learners.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Monday, December 15, 2008
Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention
The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
Culturally responsive educational systems are grounded in the belief that culturally and linguistically diverse students can excel in academic endeavors. This resource is an online professional learning module developed by NCCRESt, consisting of three "academies" designed to (a) introduce culturally responsive RTI, (b) use data to assess student progress and inform decision making, and (c) ensure culturally responsive supports. Each academy provides a facilitator manual, PowerPoint, and participant handouts.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Thursday, February 25, 2010
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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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Features of state response to intervention initiatives in Northeast and Islands Region states
Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory
This report, developed by REL and the Institute of Education Sciences, describes an analysis of documents related to RTI that are publicly available on state education agency web sites in the nine Northeast and Islands Region jurisdictions: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands. This document concludes that RTI is supported in seven jurisdictions as an overall school instructional improvement approach or an approach to determining special education eligibility. It also finds that RTI documents in the seven jurisdictions address the core features of RTI as defined by the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Friday, June 18, 2010
Field Studies of RTI Programs
RTI Action Network
This article from the RTI Action Network reviews published field studies on the effectiveness of different RTI models. The corpus of identified studies includes examples of the standard protocol model, the problem-solving model, and a combination of both.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports: Innovation Configuration Matrix (ICM)
Kansas State Department of Education
This matrix developed by the Kansas State Department of Education describes the principles and practices within a Multi-Tier System of Supports. It focuses on the essential system components that are consistent across all ages (early childhood through high school) and across all domains (academic and behavior). The primary use of this matrix is to assist in the understanding of a multi-tiered system and describe what it may look like when implemented within a district, building, or other community agency.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Monday, February 22, 2010
Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports: Research Base
Kansas State Department of Education
This document from the Kansas State Department of Education is structured to align with the "Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS): Innovation Configuration Matrix". It was created to assist in the understanding of the actual research base underlying the principles and practices of MTSS. It is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all research that supports MTSS but a highlight of some main pieces of work.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Monday, February 22, 2010
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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Resource 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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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Response to Intervention (RTI): A Primer for Parents
National Association of School Psychologists
Response to Intervention (RTI): A Primer for Parents, developed by the National Association of School Psychologists, includes information on the critical features of the RTI process for parents.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Monday, December 15, 2008
Response to Intervention (RtI): Straight Talk for Parents
Building Capacity for RTI in Texas Schools
This booklet, developed for parents, explains RtI and includes additional resources. There is also a Spanish booklet (second link) developed for Spanish speaking parents, which also explains RtI and includes additional resources along with a glossary.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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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Resource 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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Resource 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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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Response to Intervention in Secondary Schools: Is It on Your Radar Screen?
RTI Action Network
This article from the RTI Action Network provides an orientation to RTI implementation in secondary schools. It provides a definition of RTI and a rationale for using RTI in secondary education, discusses myths and challenges facing implementation at the secondary school level, and suggests some questions to ask when looking for positive signs of readiness to engage in an RTI initiative.
Grade level: 6-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Response to Intervention: The Future of Secondary Schools
National Association of School Psychologists
This article on RTI at the secondary level appears in the March 2008 issue of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) PRINCIPAL Leadership. It includes a general explanation of RTI, its importance to secondary school principals, and a description of the components of effective RTI programs.
Grade level: 6-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Monday, March 16, 2009
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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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 2007
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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Resource type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, August 08, 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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Resource type: Online Module
Date posted on this site: Monday, September 17, 2007
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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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Thursday, December 06, 2007
RTI and Math Instruction
RTI Action Network
This article from the RTI Action Network addresses RTI implementation in mathematics. It presents three considerations required for decision-making in RTI: Who needs intervention? What type of intervention is needed? And is the intervention working? It then discusses the importance of implementation fidelity and system change to ensure desired and sustainable outcomes for mathematical learning.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
RTI Tiered Instruction Goes Mainstream
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
This Fall 2008 issue of Northwest Education is devoted solely to RTI in the general education classroom. It provides examples of RTI at both the elementary and high school levels, as part of a comprehensive reading program, and as part of a math program. It also includes an interview with Dean Fixsen of the National Implementation Research Network on "the gap between what research has shown to be effective and what actually gets put into practice."
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Monday, March 16, 2009
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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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Schools, Families, and Response to Intervention
RTI Action Network
Schools, Families, and Response to Intervention, developed by the RTI Action Network, includes information from Amy Reschly on how RTI is an opportunity to bring about meaningful change in family-school relationships, allowing for the creation of engaged partnerships between educators and families through collaborative, structured problem-solving efforts.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, November 04, 2009
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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Resource type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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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Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008
The IDEA Partnership Collection on RTI
The IDEA Partnership
A Partnership Collection, a website developed by The IDEA Partnership, provides access to a comprehensive collection of materials and resources to assist the understanding of Response to Intervention (RTI) processes. The collection is designed to assist learning about Response to Intervention and best practices for its implementation on all levels-- federal, state, and local.
Grade level: K-12
Resource type: Website
Date posted on this site: Friday, June 18, 2010
The Student Assistance Team and the Three-Tier Model of Student Intervention
New Mexico Public Education Department
The New Mexico Public Education Department has developed a manual that provides guidance and tools for its school districts and charter schools to use in order to build technically sound systems to effectively implement RTI.
Grade level: K-12
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Resource type: PDF
Date posted on this site: Friday, June 18, 2010
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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Resource type: Multiple
Date posted on this site: Wednesday, October 08, 2008