Helping Students to Meet State Standards Through Response to Intervention

N.A.S.A.Intervention Referral Process

What is Response to Intervention?

• In the RtI model, a student with academic delays is given one or more research-validated interventions, based on data. The student's academic progress is monitored frequently to see if those interventions are sufficient to help the student to catch up with his or her peers

An understanding of the 3-tiered RtI framework and its foundational

principles here at NASA:

SST Referral

Within Tier 1, teachers should provide students with specific accommodations such as: graphic organizers, visual prompts, sentence frames, task analysis, extended time, differentiated instruction, and small group activities

Intervention Referral

SPED

Referral

Target Student Population here at NEW Academy of Science and Arts:• The majority of our students are English Language learners and come from low-income backgrounds, many of whom have families that just arrived to the United States.

• Most children who are classified as learning-disabled are identified because of difficulties with reading. The acquisition of solid reading skills opens the doorway to all other academic disciplines as it provides children with unlimited access to new information while strengthening writing and speaking skills.

Sample Intervention Case Study – Language Arts

Standards• Sam is a third grade student who has

low reading scores. Sam’s strengths are in art, mathematics, and building activities (e.g. LEGO’s). The teacher refers Sam for Intervention because he has trouble with sounding, blending, and vocabulary. A third grade content standard for reading states that students will use sound patterns to decode multisyllable words. Another standard states that students will understand and explain common synonyms and antonyms.

• How would the teacher fill out a referral form for Intervention?

Pull Outs vs. Push Ins

Pull Outs:

• Tier 2 ---- 9 to12 weeks---- 30 to 40

minutes---- 1 to 3

times/week

• Tier 3 ---- 12-18 weeks---- 30 to 45

minutes---- 4 to 5

times/week

Push Ins:

No request for student intervention because I would be inside the classroom working with the students in accordance to your schedule.

What if a student already has an IEP? Can I refer him for

Intervention?• No need to fill out the

student intervention form because the student already has an IEP with goals.

• Yes, students with an IEP may receive intervention if they are severely “at-risk”