Our district has created a process for the Response to
Intervention which we call A4L (Assessment for Learning).
Regardless of the name of the program, the work that happens to
help support students is sound. Our teachers understand that the
first two levels of intervention are done in class. When a
student requires something other than the standard curriculum
instruction, teachers are to start documenting what they are
doing for that student and why. Teachers work in their
Professional Learning Communities to get support with this work.
Once every six weeks, the PLC is replaced by an A4L meeting
where all of the specialists meet along with the team to make
sure that all students are making progress. These meetings allow
for all the players to be in the same place at the same time.
Also, the group is able to draw from each others' strengths for
strategies and ideas. The documentation for the students in the
intervention process is kept in the grade level's team notebook
so that all the data for the students i