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• Title: Agents of Change: Voices of Teachers on Response to Intervention.
• Author : International Journal of Whole Schooling
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 217 KB

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"I feel like I am an agent of change but I also feel like my students are agents of change. You know, I think kids are as invested as the teachers. Sharlene, second grade teacher Response to Intervention (RTI) models are one of the most common initiatives being implemented today to address concerns about all U.S. students having equitable access to general education, including students with disabilities, students from diverse cultural backgrounds, and students who speak English as a second language. Although not mandated by federal regulation, RTI approaches are included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulations (Sec. 300.307), which suggests a systematic process for screening, intervening and monitoring to determine a child's response to scientific, research-based intervention. IDEA and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 (U.S. Department of Education, 2001) both support closing achievement gaps, underscoring importance of high quality, scientifically-based instruction and interventions, and holding schools accountable for the progress of all students in meeting grade level standards (Klotz, 2007). A number of leading national organizations and coalition groups, including the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and the 14 organizations forming the 2004 Learning Disabilities (LD) Roundtable coalition, have outlined the core features of an RTI process as follows:

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