Additional RTI Resources and Websites

Intervention Central

Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help them implement Response to Intervention.

The Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports at the American Institutes for Researc

The Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports provides support to states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing an MTSS framework that integrates data and instruction within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and support students’ social, emotional, and behavior needs from a strengths-based perspective. 

Building RTI Capacity

The website for the Building RTI Capacity project, part of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk within the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin, provides resources to enhance Response to Intervention implementation. It provides information, instructional strategies, and tools for leaders, teachers, interventionists, student evaluation personnel, counselors, and parents—all the stakeholders who support student success in school.

The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements

The IRIS Center resources are designed to address instructional and classroom issues relevant to today's educators, issues that include Response to Intervention, classroom behavior management, early childhood instruction, and others.

Florida Center for Reading Research

The Florida Center for Reading Research is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University that explores all aspects of reading research—basic research into literacy-related skills for typically developing readers and those who struggle, studies of effective prevention and intervention, and psychometric work on formative assessment.

The National Center on Intensive Intervention at American Institutes for Research

The National Center on Intensive Intervention provides resources focused on building the capacity of state and local education agencies, universities, practitioners, and other stakeholders to support implementation of intensive intervention in reading, mathematics, and behavior for students with severe and persistent learning and/or behavioral needs.

Institute of Education Sciences: What Works Clearinghouse

The What Works Clearinghouse is an investment of the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education. The What Works Clearinghouse reviews existing educational research on programs, products, practices, and policies with a goal of providing educators with the information needed to make evidence-based decisions.

For more information, please contact:

Crystal Bethea, RTI Literacy Director
Arkansas Department of Education
1401 W. Capitol Ave. Suite #425
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-319-7333 ext. 119