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RTI: Not just for special education

The article from eSchool News contains information on multiple technology programs available for use with Response to Intervention, including Spectrum K12’s EXCEED RTI. Spectrum K12’s Cheif Technology Officer was quoted in the story:

"Until recently, the special-education community was much more aware of RTI than most people in the general education community, said Steve Benfield, Spectrum K12’s chief technology officer and vice president of product strategy. Spectrum holds focus groups with superintendents every six months, and Benfield said he noticed that RTI has gone from a concept that few superintendents knew of to something that was taking hold in their day-to-day meetings."

"We think of RTI as a mini-education plan--what are we going to do to help this child succeed based on what we see," he said. "RTI is really hot now, and it’s a process--it’s systematizing something we should have been doing all along, and it’s something that good teachers probably have been doing." 

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