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Center on Response to Intervention: Train the Trainer Materials
These materials are intended for use by those wishing to conduct a Training of Trainers (TOT) for the RTI Implementer Series. TOT facilitators should have knowledge of the materials provided here, the Implementer Series training module...
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Cri: Truth in Labeling: Disproportionality in Special Education
This 2007 educators' guide provides information on disproportionality. The guide disccuses: (1) the definition of disproportionality, (2) issues that contribute to disproportionality, (3) implications for students, schools, and...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Using Cbm to Determine Rti
This training module describes the difference between RTI and traditional assessment for learning disabilities, the basics of RTI using a three-tier model, and instructional interventions within each tier. The module also discusses...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Fidelity to Enhance Program Implementation
This training module describes (1) considerations for evaluating fidelity across the essential components of RTI, (2) discusses options for measuring fidelity, (3) provides examples of measurement tools, and (4) suggestions to improve...
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Center on Response to Intervention: My Child and the Benefits of Cbm
Download this PDF brief which provides a number of steps parents can take to ensure their child receives the benefits of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM).
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Center on Response to Intervention: Curriculum Based Measurement and My Child
Download this PDF brief which provides an overview of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). It explains how CBM, which provides current, week-by-week information on the progress children are making, can be helpful to parents.
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Center on Response to Intervention: Academic Intervention Tools Chart
This tools chart presents information about studies that have been conducted about academic intervention programs. The first tab, Study Quality, includes ratings from our TRC members on the technical rigor of the study design. The second...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Screening Tools Chart
This tools chart presents information about screening tools from the fourth annual review of screening tools by the Center's Technical Review Committee (TRC). The columns include ratings from our TRC members on the technical rigor of the...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Screening Tools Chart
This tools chart presents information about screening tools from the fourth annual review of screening tools by the Center's Technical Review Committee (TRC). The columns include ratings from our TRC members on the technical rigor of the...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Curriculum Based Measures
This literature review provides a brief history of curriculum-based measurement (CBM), clarifying its relationship to curriculum-based assessment, a summary of the primary features of CBM, and a rationale for its design. Extensions of...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Math Rti for Elementary and Middle Schools
This PDF Practice Guide, released by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in April 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement Response to Intervention (RTI) to assist students struggling in math. The focus is building an...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Parent Page: Responsiveness to Intervention
This 2007 brief provides an overview of Response to Intervention (RTI) and its primary components. It was created by the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and could be of particular interest to families who are looking...
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Center on Rti: Culturally/linguistically Responsive Intervention
This 2006 brief on preventing disproportionate representation in special education seeks to answer the question: "Are we identifying and serving the "right" students?" It was written by Shernaz B. Garcia and Alba A. Ortiz and produced by...
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Center on Rti: Intervention for Adolescent Struggling Readers
This 2007 brief is a meta-analysis of thirty-one studies on interventions targeting adolescents struggling with reading. Specifically, it looks at effective interventions for struggling adolescent readers, what the specific impact of...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Integrating Progress Monitoring
This brief, developed for the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring by Kathleen McLane, offers some suggestions for teachers on how to use student progress monitoring in an integrated way in the classroom, so that monitoring...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring Briefs
This series of briefs on progress monitoring comprises four separate documents. The purpose of these progress monitoring briefs is to provide practitioners with guidance to support careful planning and thoughtful practices as part of...
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Center on Response to Intervention:how the Rti Process Works in Secondary School
This document, developed by the Tigard-Tualatin School District in Tigard, OR in October 2009, includes information on Effective Behavior and Instructional Support (EBIS) as a structured, systematic process (1) to review school-wide...
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Center on Response to Intervention:implementing Effective Literacy Practices Ell
The training module, Implementing Effective Literacy Practices for Instructing English Language Learners Within the Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework, provides facilitators with materials to conduct a half-day workshop that can be...
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Center on Response to Intervention:implementing Progress Monitoring in My School
This brief, developed for the Center on Student Progress Monitoring by Kathleen McLane, explains factors that you must consider before implementing student progress monitoring in your school. Three main issues are discussed, including:...
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Center on Response to Intervention:multi Tier Reading Intervention:primary Grade
This Practice Guide, by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in February 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement RTI to assist students struggling with reading. The focus is building an instructional program in order to...
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Center on Response to Intervention:leadership Team and English Language Learners
To ensure that the implementation of RTI strategies effectively addresses the needs of all students, this informational brief provides guidelines for organizing and implementing a school leadership team that focuses on the needs of...
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Center on Response to Intervention:rti Components Integrity Rubric and Worksheet
The RTI Essential Components Integrity Rubric and the RTI Essential Components Integrity Worksheet are for use by individuals responsible for monitoring the school-level fidelity of RTI implementation. They may also be used by schools...
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Center on Response to Intervention:rti in Elementary School:a Guide for Families
This document was developed to help parents and other family members understand the essential components of RTI (screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, and data-based decision making), ask questions about RTI, and...
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Center on Response to Intervention: Using Rti to Improve Student Learning
This downloadable PDF guide explains how leaders can use a research-based framework for response to intervention (RTI) to improve learning for all students. The majority of states have some form of RTI initiative in place already. This...