Thank you all for returning the Special Services surveys. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and will be helpful in planning for next year.

Many of you may have heard of RtI (Response to Intervention). This is a new federal law with implications for general education as well as special education. Response to Intervention identifies and provides high quality instruction and research based interventions matched to student needs. RtI measures the rate of improvement over time to make important educational decisions. RtI uses ongoing student performance data to determine if an intervention is working. If the intervention is not working it is time to do something different. RtI uses a 3 tiered approach to problem solving. All students are screened. This tells us where each student is compared to peers. It tells educators which studnets need intervention. The students move up the 3 tiers depending on the level of interventions needed for the student to make progress. RtI is an overall integrated system of service delivery. RtI is not an eligibility system. It is not simply a way to find students eligible and or reducing the number of students placed into special education.

We have formed committees in all three buildings this year. The staff has attended training offered through SASED/ASPIRE throughout the year. We will continue to implement the RtI process next year.