Comprehensive Systems of Personnel Development (CSPD)

Response to Intervention (RTI)

IDEA '04 now allows for PEAs to choose to use a "Response to Intervention" Child Find process as part of the evaluation for Specific Learning Disabilities. If PEAs choose to use this process, the state requires that they use a set of specific scientifically based components and that the PEA submit a plan for approval by ADE/ESS prior to using that process to directly identify students for special education. ADE/ESS is assisting PEAs to implement this process in the following ways:

• Provide school teams six days of training on the components of RtI
• Provide coaches to each team for support in implementing the components at their site
• Establish model sites for visitation
• Provide a statewide database for progress monitoring data
• Collaborate with Reading First and other general education initiatives using Curriculum Based Measures (CBM) data for instructional decisions
• Provide a web site for ongoing RtI information (www.ade.az.gov/rti )
• Provide information about RtI to stakeholder groups

Getting Ready	Response to Intervention AZ’s K-8 Plan	Response to Intervention Q and A	Parent’s Guide to AZ’s RtI Plan	RTI Project Data	RtI in IDEA ‘04
Application for training	RtI Database	Application for Plan Approval	RtI Taskforce	RtI Resources	RTI Conference Information

Contact Information

Exceptional Student Services
Arizona Department of Education
1535 West Jefferson Street, Bin 4
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Tel: (602) 542-0610
Fax: (602) 364-1115
Dolores Ratcliff, Project Coordinator
(E-mail: Dolores.Ratcliff@azed.gov)