Calif. District Uses RTI to Boost Achievement for All
School psychologist Anna Quintanilla works with 1st grader Martin Salazar at Lone Star Elementary School in the Sanger Unified School District near Fresno, Calif., where response-to-intervention techniques are being incorporated districtwide. Educators in the district say the new approach has expanded the role of counselors like Ms. Quintanilla.
—Manny Crisostomo for Education Week
Educators in Sanger, Calif., schools credit response to intervention for helping to increase student test scores
The 2004-05 school year didn’t start off well for the Sanger Unified School District.
The 10,500-student district, located about a dozen miles east of Fresno, had entered its first year of “program improvement”—a gentler way of saying that Sanger was among the 98 lowest-performing districts in the state based on the success criteria spelled out in the federal No Child Left Behind law.
The district fell short because it had failed to make adequate yearly progress. Hardly any group of students was doing as well as they...
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