RTI for everyone. That’s how California educators in the Sanger Unified School District approached the school year six years ago.
At one time, the district was among the 98 lowest-performing districts in the state based on the criteria in the federal No Child Left Behind law.
RTI is an instructional practice that involves identifying students with specific learning or behavioral weaknesses and then providing progressively intensive interventions to help them improve.
In the Sanger School District, RTI was not put in place solely to address lagging special education achievement; instead, the process was seen as a way of improving education for the entire district, including students with disabilities.
We applaud the idea that teachers become armed with the right strategies to effectively teach every student - and the basics are a great place to start. We also know that explicit direct instruction and ongoing collaboration between all teachers is the right road to improved education and reading success.
Congratulations to the Sanger Unified School District for their RTI initiatives. Would RTI for every student work in your school?