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RTINetwork

The Professional Development section of this website provides links to podcasts, webinars and virtual visits focused on Response to Intervention. This site also offers more than 30 brief video clips about all phases of the RTI process at all grade levels. These clips can also be found at the RTINetwork section of Youtube.

The following is a partial list of available video clips:
a) What is RTI? (4/10/2008)
b) Implementing RTI in an Elementary School (rural, high need students)
c) Advice to School Districts Beginning to Implement RTI (2/20/2009)
d) Response to Intervention: Helping all students succeed (11/10/2009)
d) Engaging Families in Response to Intervention
e) Comparison of RTI and the Discrepancy Model (1/11/2011)
f) What Teachers Need to Know about RTI

Reading Rockets

In addition to teacher and parent friendly articles, this site provides a series of video clips about various aspects of RTI. These video clips can be accessed at http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz/rti. Clips are from three to five minutes in length.
1. The Phases of RTI
2. Implementing a Screening Program
3. Conducting Universal Screening
4. Helping Teachers Use Progress Monitoring
5. Progress Monitoring at Tier II
6. Tier I: Differentiation
7. Tier II: Instructional Programming
8. Intensive Instruction at Tier III

On the Doing What Works

This multimedia overview, Response to Invention, explains why states and districts are turning to Response to Intervention (RtI) systems described, including the three instructional tiers and components that are common to most systems such as universal screening, progress monitoring, systematic instruction, and differentiation based on data.
Scroll down the screen to watch two discussions between reading researchers and RTI experts, Sharon Vaughn and Russell Gersten on the “Evolution of Response to Intervention” and “Issues, Challenges, and Lessons” in RTI.

Screening Within the RTI Process

Click on the tabs “practice summary”, “learn what works” and “see what works” for video clips on each topic. The “learn what works section” has a handful of downloadable materials. Three elementary schools are featured in the video clips.

Progress Monitoring Within the RTI process

Click on the tabs “practice summary”, “learn what works” and “see what works” for video clips on each topic. The “learn what works section” has a handful of downloadable materials. Three elementary schools are featured in the video clips.

Implementing RTI Approach

Click on the tabs “practice summary”, “learn what works” and “see what works” for video clips on each topic. Under the “practice summary” tab you will find a video clip titled, Response to Intervention: Framework in Reading. The “learn what works section” has two sets of downloadable materials, including an RTI Guide for Parents.

Multiple Tiers Approach

RRI offers students multiple levels, or tiers, of evidence-based instruction & interventions. At each tier in the framework, students receive effective, differentiated instruction. The intensity of instruction at each tier will vary depending on students' learning needs

RTI in Early Reading and Mathematics: Moving Evidence on What Works into Practice 

Visit the multimedia presentation at the What Works Clearinghouse. This presentation features a panel of researchers, policy specialists, and practitioners gathered to discuss their experiences with RtI in math and reading. Click on the “Sharon Vaughn, Special Educator” 3 minute clip for a clear explanation of the three tier module.

Extensive Reading Interventions in grades K-3

At this site you can view a webinar and download a powerpoint presentation. From research to practice featuring Dr. Sharon Vaughn and Dr. Jeanne Wanzek.

Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act

Sponsored by the US Department of Education, this website offers technical information about IDEA (). A video clip interview with U.S. Department of Education officials provides an overview of the rationale and intent of RTI in the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. The video clip is comprehensive and includes information on the scientific research that supports evidence-based intervention. The focus of the video clip is on children with disabilities. Click here to view the video clip (about 15 minutes in length)

Teaching all students to read: Is it really possible?

This is a PowerPoint presented by Dr. Joseph Torgesen at the Internation Dyslexia Association.

Catch Them Before They Fall

PowerPoint on Early Identification and Intervention that focuses on preventing reading failure in young children.  Presented by Dr. Joseph Torgesen March, 2007.