Instructional Supports and Interventions

Response to Intervention: In collaboration with the Northeast Regional Resource Center (NERRC), the National Center on Response to Intervention, the New England Equity Assistance Center, and the Regional Parent Technical Assistance Center, NECC is providing opportunities for state education leaders to learn about Response to Intervention (RTI) as an approach to district and school improvement. RTI offers a systematic approach to meeting the needs of all students through:

• Research-based core instruction for all students;
• Universal screening to identify students who may need more support or different instruction;
• Increasingly intensive instruction, usually through a system of tiered interventions based on student need; and
• Regular progress monitoring to track student learning of targeted skills.

Because of its focus on prevention and targeted instruction supports, RTI is endorsed by the Individuals for Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as a strategy for preventing learning difficulties and premature or inaccurate special needs diagnoses.

In May 2007 NECC and NERRC held a webinar on RTI.
Download and play a recording of the presentation