Definitions:
Response to Intervention:
RtI is a practice of academic and behavior interventions designed to provide early, effective assistance to underperforming students. Research-based interventions are implemented and frequent progress monitoring is conducted to assess student response and progress. When students do not make progress, increasingly more intense interventions are introduced.
Pyramid of Interventions:
The Pyramid of Intervention is also known as the Student Achievement Pyramid of Interventions. It is a conceptual framework developled by the GaDOE that will enable all students in Georgia to continue to make great gains in school. The pyramid is a graphic organizer that illustrates layers of instructional efforts that can be provided to students according to their individual needs.
Standards-Based Classroom:
A standards-based classroom is a classroom where teachers and students have a clear understanding of the expectations (standards). They know what they are teaching/learning each day, why the day's learning is important to know or how to do, as well as how to do it. They also know they are working toward meeting standards throughout the year and that standards-based learning is a process, not an event.
Progress Monitoring:
Progress monitoring is a scientifically based practice that is used to assess students' academic performance and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. Progress monitoring can be implemented with individual students or an entire class.
Student Support Team:
The Student Support Team (SST) is a multi-disciplinary team which utilizes a problem-solving process to investigate the educational needs of students who are experiencing academic and/or social/behavioral difficulties. SST, which is required in every Georgia public school, uses a data-driven process to plan individualized supports and interventions and the method of assessing their effectiveness. The SST provides individualized support for students at Tier 3 of the Pyramid of Interventions.
RtI Flow Chart
This flowchart outlines the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework for the Glynn County School System.
RtI Flow Chart for Speech/Language Concerns
This flow chart outlines the process for addressing speech/language concerns. It follows the same framework as the RtI flow chart listed above.
Georgia's Student Achievement Pyramid of Interventions
This is the RtI graphic organizer developed by the Georgia Department of Education.
Georgia's RtI process includes several key components:
- A 4-Tier delivery model designed to provide support matched to student need throught the implementation of standards-based classrooms.
- Evidence-based instruction as the core of classroom teaching.
- Evidence-based interventions utilized with increasing levels of intensity based on progress monitoring.
- The use of a variety of ongoing assessment data to determine which students are not meeting success academically and/or behaviorally.
- Data teams in each school serve as the driving force for instructional decision making in the building.
- Purposeful allocation of instructional resources based on student assessment data.
Source: Georgia Department of Education Response to Intervention: Georgia's Student Achievement Pyramid of Intervention
Georgia DOE RtI Manual
General Education Interventions
Special Education Eligibility Requirements