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Spectrum K12 Response to Intervention (RTI) Solution Passes 400,000 Student Milestone

Posted by Beth DuBose on Mar 09, 2010

EXCEED™ RTI Software Selected By K-12 School Districts in 8 States and the District of Columbia

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Response to Intervention in Secondary schools

Posted by Beth DuBose on Feb 24, 2010

The National Center on Response to Intervention interviewed Dan Deshler about what work or research is currently being done around secondary RTI that we will see in the future.

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Scaling Beyond the RTI Pilot

Posted by Beth DuBose on Feb 23, 2010

Machele Stefhon had a great session last week with over 30 educators that attended the Scaling the RTI Pilot: Steps to Implementing a District RTI Initiative webinar. 

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Tiered Instruction is an Essential Component in a Response to Intervention Model

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 28, 2010

It seems that when we think of RTI we focus the discussion on universal screening and progress monitoring. Though these are very important, the core of RTI is the instruction that is provided to the student. Universal screening is important because it helps us determine where our students are struggling so we know what instruction to provide. Progress monitoring is important because it shows us if the instruction that is provided is helping the student meet their goals. Without appropriate and effective instruction, students will not progress.

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Great resource for Reading intervention lessons

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 22, 2010

Read Write Think was created by the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Verizon Foundation to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction.

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Making Decisions About Adequate Progress in Tier 2

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 21, 2010

This article, by Douglas Dexter and Dr. Charles Hughes of Penn State University, discusses the identification of students not progressing adequately in Tier 2 of an RTI model, and provides recommendations to improve Tier 2 instruction and identify those students needing Tier 3 interventions.

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RTI and ELL Students: What you need to know

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 19, 2010

Recorded webinar presented by Casey Gordon, an ELL Coordinator at Kent ISD. The webinar focuses on how teachers can ensure that RTI is a positive program for ELL students.

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The Reading-Ready Brain

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 15, 2010

Principal Leadership magazine publilshed this story about Penn-Trafford High School in Harrison City, PA. The article describes how best practices were being used in their school to reach struggling students through RTI, but not all students were engaged. The school decided they needed a new approach for these students.

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Free Reading Intervention Activities

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 15, 2010

FreeReading is a great website that provides an open-source resource for teachers and parents who want to work with their children on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.

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International Reading Association releases new guiding principles on reading interventions

Posted by Beth DuBose on Jan 13, 2010

IRA has published a document with their guiding principles in regard to reading interventions in the Response to Intervention Process.

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