8 States to Receive Intensive Technical Assistance Support for RTI
Posted by Beth DuBose on Dec 10, 2008
The National Center on Response to Intervention, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office and Special Education Programs and managed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, provides technical assistance (TA) support to each of the 50 states and 9 territories across the country. In collaboration with state RTI leadership teams and others, the Center has confirmed that 8 states will receive intensive TA supports that will help them to plan, implement and evaluate their RTI initiatives. The states receiving intensive TA are Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
The Center’s intensive TA help states to plan, implement, and evaluate their statewide RTI initiatives. In each of the intensive TA states, the Center is working directly with the state RTI leadership team to determine how the state and the Center will collaborate to achieve the state’s vision for RTI. For example, intensive TA supports can include helping the state develop and coordinate a statewide system for RTI professional development. Other examples of the Center’s intensive TA supports include assisting the state in developing model demonstration sites and establishing and monitoring state guidance for local district adoption of RTI tools and practices with fidelity.
Each intensive TA state has made strong commitments to RTI. These commitments include:
- (a) Developing a multi-district or statewide initiative for RTI.
- (b) Allocating substantial state resources (e.g., state agency staff time and financial resources) as needed to successfully implement the state’s RTI initiative.
- (c) Working with the Center to evaluate the outcomes of the initiative.
The Center and intensive TA states have established formal agreements that specify the terms for our collaboration. These agreements are for one year, with options for mutually agreed upon annual renewals until the end of the Center’s five years of operation in 2012.
Taken from The National Center on Response to Intervention’s report. The report provides a summary of each of the intensive states’ plan in using the intensive TA.