Response to Intervention is becoming the buzz-word in administrative circles and quickly filtering down to classrooms.

R.T.I is the practice of providing high-quality instruction and intervention matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about change in instruction or goals and applying child response data to important educational decisions. (NASDSE, 2005)

Why do it? IDEA 2004 provides for the use of RTI as part of the process to determine eligibility for learning disabilities.  Today, school districts are facing the challenge of sorting out what RTI should look like and how it might be best implemented.

How do we do it?

To Get There in Practice: We Need to Do Three Things:

1. Adopt a three tier intervention system structure.
2. Use a problem-solving method to make decisions within the multi-tier model.
   • Is there a problem and what is it?
   • Why is the problem happening?
   • What are we going to do about it?
   • Did our intervention work?
3. Use scientifically validated teaching practices to the greatest degree possible.

This sounds simple, right? Well, changing our teaching practice is never simple. There is much theory at present about R.T.I. and few simple, common sense and practical strategies. I’ve researched some of the best online resources to support your efforts to implement Response to Intervention in your school or district.

The following links give you 12 outstanding resources to support Response to Intervention in your school or district.

1)    http://www.aimhieducational.com/Books/CogentCatalystPublications.html Click on Products & scroll down to RTI Posters

These two posters create a visual flow chart of how Differentiated Instruction, Response to Intervention, Marzano’s Strategies & Susan’s best-practice strategies and techniques are connected.Administrators are saying, “Finally, I have a visual that helps my teachers to ’see’ how all this fits together. This demonstrates how the process can work!”

2)   http://www.ideapartnership.org/report.cfm?reportid=238

3)   http://www.interventioncentral.org/

4)   http://www.lehigh.edu/collegeofeducation/mp3/links/links.htm

5)   http://www.nasdse.org/projects.cfm?pageprojectid=23

6)   http://www.nrcld.org/research/rti.shtml

7)   http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/toolkit/index.asp

8)   http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ec/development/learning/intervention/

9) http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ec/development/learning/intervention/rtimaterials

10)  http://www.wested.org/nerrc/rti.htm

11)   http://www.jimwrightonline.com/php/rti/rti_wire.php

12)   http://www.w-w-c.org/