The purpose of this project is to develop an individualized web-based professional development (PD) program to support teachers’ effective implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) and improve student outcomes. Effective implementation of RTI requires ongoing evaluation of the relation between implementation of interventions and change on student measures over time, in order to determine whether interventions are successful or in need of modification to improve outcomes for students with disabilities or who are at risk of failure. Yet, many RTI models are implemented with little attention to the fidelity or effectiveness of the processes by which progress is measured, instruction developed, or decisions made.

Over the course of the four-year project, we will work with a Lead Development Team of instructional specialists, and general and special education teachers, to create a web-based PD system that improves the effects of using RTI to improve student learning by enhancing teachers’ ability to make sound decisions based on their students’ progress data. The PD system will use teacher and student data to provide individualized training to teachers.

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