Response To Intervention

School districts throughout the country are becoming more reliant on data to monitor student’s performance to insure that students are making adequate progress in accordance with No Child Left Behind law. Results from quarterly assessments are used as a key data component for the student. When this same data illustrates that a student may be at risk of failing in an academic area, a team of educators should create a documented intervention plan that helps that student to be successessful and to prevent them from failing. This plan is known as Response to Intervention (RTI). Although this process was introduced in the 1070, s (Ortiz, 2006), it has been reshaped and reintroduced as a best practice to meet the needs of students today. Many educators