Responsiveness to Instruction (RTI) is an initiative that seeks to ensure that all children have access to high quality instruction and that struggling learners - including those with learning disabilities - are identified, supported, and served early and effectively.   Through a multii-tiered approach RTI closely monitors student progress at each stage of intervention to determine  the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both.  RTI aims to:

• focus on instruction/intervention rather than on what is wrong with the student.
• focus on the solution rather than the problem.
• focus on addressing the needs of all students, not just those with labels.
• focus on all educators being responsible for all children.