Response to Intervention

A comprehensive framework that includes academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports for all students. MTSS expands on RTI by addressing the whole child, not just academic skills. It uses data-driven decision-making to provide tiered levels of support and early intervention.

A multi-tiered framework used to identify students who are struggling and provide them with increasingly intensive levels of support. RTI is often used before a special education referral to determine if a student's difficulties can be addressed through general education interventions. It typically has three tiers of increasing intensity.

The systematic, ongoing collection of data to assess whether a student is making adequate progress toward IEP goals or responding to an intervention. Progress monitoring uses brief, repeated assessments (like CBMs) to track growth and inform instructional decisions.