For Akron Families

This website is to support you as a parent as your child learns in school.

Seldom, do students all progress at the same rate. For this reason, Response for Intervention was initiated. The below article will help explain this initiative.

What is Response to Intervention? RtI

Information was adapted from http://www.wrightslaw.com/idea/art/rti.hale.pdf

    In 2004, Congress made many changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004) and RtI was a big one. We were told that resources could be shifted from an old and ineffectual “discrepancy model” of identifying and serving children with learning problems and that those resources could be put into RtI.

   We could serve many more children under an RtI model than under the old discrepancy model. The premise of RtI is a good one. If you provide high quality instruction, and regularly keep track of how children are doing in the classroom, all children will succeed and achieve high standards.  

    A teacher modifies instruction (intervention) to help a struggling child, and then checks the child’s progress regularly (called progress monitoring) to see if the intervention is working. If the intervention is working, the problem is solved. If the intervention is not working, you change the intervention and monitor progress. This process continues until the child improves. This approach does not rely on diagnosing the child, but focuses on whether the child has a “skill deficit” or a “performance deficit,” and provides help until the child gets better.

   You also avoid needless labeling of children with SLD and other disabilities. Because RtI focuses on helping all children learn and modifying instruction to meet their needs, it received critical acclaim and widespread.

  Family Resources    

Ohio Testing Portal- Student can take previous questions from the OAT and the OGT. Families can look at the type of questions and learn what is expected of students.

Ohio Department of Education's Family Pages are designed to help parents understand what children are expected to learn in school – and how to help them succeed. The Web pages feature links to  other information on ODE's Web site  and to helpful information from around the country.

Ohio Academic Content Standards describe the knowledge and skills that students should attain, often called the what of what students should know and be able to do. They indicate the ways of thinking, working, communicating, reasoning and investigating, and important and enduring ideas, concepts, issues, dilemmas and knowledge essential to the discipline.

National Council of Teachers of Math Help your child learn math You can make a big difference in your child's attitude, motivation, and math-ability. Key concepts to make those homework sessions more effective, and more fun! Includes additional resources to use in daily homework sessions. Figure This!  Family Corner:
Family members are crucial to student success. And the more that adults become engaged in their children's education, the greater the chances that children will succeed.

INFOhio can be accessed through our Library Media Website. INFOhio is a virtual K-12 library, transforms teaching and learning by connecting educational resources with the power of information technology.

  ABC's for RtI                Fun Math Activities for K-2 children using cards.

 Math Websites with resources for you.

Reading Websites with resources for you.

Specific Activities and Websites for Your Child's Grade Level Range

Reading Grades K-3    4-7   8-12

Math Grades K-2     3-4     5-7   8-12