Response to Intervention (RtI): An Overview

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RtI Implementation Rubric


What is Response to Intervention? The National Research Council defines RtI as:
"an assessment and intervention process for systematically monitoring progress and making decisions about the need for instructional modifications or increasingly intensified services using progress monitoring data."

Rti is an early intervention strategy. It is a comprehensive, multi-tiered, standards-aligned strategy to enable early identification and intervention for students at rick. RtI allows educators to identify and address academic difficulties prior to student failure. The goal of RtI is to improve student achievement using research-based interventions matched to the instructional need and level of the student.

Core Characteristics of RtI:

  • Standards-aligned instruction

  • Universal Screening

  • Shared ownership

  • Data-based decision making

  • Tiered intervention and service delivery system

  • Parental engagement

Pennsylvania

Web Links:
YouTube Video: Response to Intervention in PA: Project MP3 (Focus on Reading RtI)
Lehigh University"s Project MP3
National Center on Response to Intervention
PaTTAN - RtI Information

Downloadable Resources:

RtI Readiness Tool from PDE

RtI: What it is, What it is not (from PDE)

RtI Framework for Secondary Schools