Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

Response to Intervention: A Framework for Improving Student Learning, was a follow-up to NWRCC's 2006 RTI Symposium, Catch Them Early: Using RTI to Match Instruction to the Needs of All Students, and was one of a series of opportunities states will have over the next several years for involvement in RTI events and activities. The goal of NWRCC is to increase the capacity of each state education agency to build, support, and sustain an integrated response to intervention system that will improve student learning by coordinating efforts across general and special education.

Outcomes

• Participants furthered their understanding of RTI as a framework for improving student learning
• Participants learned about strategies and federal guidelines that promote the coordination of efforts for RTI across general and special education
• Participants applied the research on implementation to the context of RTI

Speakers

• Dean Fixsen, Co-Director, National Implementation Research Network
• Gregory Roberts, Center on Instruction
• Louis Danielson, United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
• Zollie Stevenson, United States Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Petrea Hagen-Gilden, Director of Student Services Tigard-Tualatin School District
• Erin Lolich, Oregon RTI Project Manager
• David M. Guardino, Special Education State Grant Coordinator, Oregon Department of Education
• Nancy Latini, Assistant Superintendent, Oregon Department of Educaton