National Center on Response to Intervention to Host May 14 Webinar
The National Center on Response to Intervention is hosting a Webinar on "What is RTI?" since this topic is a top priority of states. The purpose of this Webinar is to help state education agencies understand what RTI is, which can be used to provide tiered instructional services and to identify students with learning disabilities. This Webinar will describe basic concepts of RTI and how it can be implemented in schools. Examples will be shared to illustrate how teams can be organized within schools to implement RTI.
The National Center on Response to Intervention’s mission is to provide technical assistance and dissemination about proven and promising models for RTI and Early Intervening Services (EIS) to state and local educators, families, and other stakeholders. The Center works in four areas: (a) knowledge production, which involves a Technical Review Committee of experts who independently evaluate the scientific rigor, conditions for successful implementation, and the cultural and linguistic competence of all identified models (and components); (b) implementation supports, which involve training and follow-up activities to scale-up RTI and EIS on a broad scale; (c) information dissemination, which involves forming communities of practice to improve the likelihood that consumers will adopt RTI models; and (d) formative evaluation, which involves an assessment of the quality, implementation, impact, and cost effectiveness of the services offered.
Related resources on SchoolsMovingUp: SchoolsMovingUp's special section on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) provides specific resources, services, and tools on key NCLB topics, including select Department of Education guidance, regulations, legislation, and announcements. For easy reference, resources are organized by major NCLB topics. For more information on students with disabilities, go to SchoolsMovingUp's NCLB/IDEA and NCLB pages.
In addition, on May 13, 2008, SchoolsMovingUp's featured webinar will profile the successful strategies used by Sierra Elementary School in implementing Response to Intervention.
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