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Almost 7 million students receive special education
services in America's schools. The greatest number of students referred for special
education fall into the category of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD). 80 to
90 percent of the students in this category have been referred because they can't
read, and many have poor math skills. Identifying each student's specific disability
is time-consuming and costly. It benefits both schools and students when the need
for placing a student in special education can be averted.
A Response to Intervention Model (RTI) reallocates
resources and energy to teaching students what they need to know in order to succeed
in general education. Response to Intervention is a multi-tiered approach to providing
interventions to struggling learners. RTI allows for early intervention by providing
preemptive academic support rather than waiting for a child to fail before offering
help. The implementation of activities associated with Response to Intervention is
expected to have a positive effect on schools across the nation. RTI may be described
as a model addressing the needs of all students through a continuum of services
which provide:
- high-quality instruction and scientific, researched-based, tiered intervention strategies
aligned with individual student need
- frequent monitoring of student progress to make results-based academic or behavioral
decisions
- data-based school improvement
- the application of student response data to important educational decisions (such
as those regarding placement, intervention, curriculum, and instructional goals
and methodologies
Today it is possible to use technology to identify
and track the progress of students that are having difficulty learning in a normal
classroom. XID’s RTI Tracker allows educators and administrators to first identify
students with problems, and then to assist students in their quest to get a quality
education.
RTI Tracker provides easy-to-use screens to
perform all of these tasks:
- Assessment scores of any type can be recorded and displayed.
- Plans may have defined performance targets.
- Selected faculty has the ability to create, and use, District-designed Intervention
plans to help students achieve their goals.
- Unique Intervention Plans may be created for Tiers I, II, and III.
- Intervention Plans may be individualized for each student, if desired.
- Teachers can record student progress in a Plan with minimal effort.
- All data is available for instant recall for review and augmentation.
- Data can accumulate over time, and historical data is instantly available to the
current teachers even when the students change campuses.
- When needed, referral meetings can be easily arranged, with email notification to
the participants.
- If necessary, escalation to Tier II and Tier III plans is quick and easy.
- Defined reports are available for Administration and Staff.
- Reports may be produced as on-screen PDF’s, printed form, or saved as CSV (comma
separated values) for import into spreadsheets.
View Specific Features and Benefits of RTI Tracker:
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