Intervention Committee

I have been part of a committee at the Junior High that is working on “Response to Intervention”.  It has been eye opening for me.  Realizing what we do when students struggle, and then later fail.  It became clear that we do not have enough strategic interventions in place for when students are struggling.  It is frequently too late in the quarter when we identify students that are struggling and failing, and even if they are identified, we don’t have standard processes in place to help them out.  Some of these students legitimately struggle, other are choosing to not to learn.  Both of these groups of students need intervention.  The focus of the committee is how we identify these students, and then what strategic and systematic approach will we have so all students will have access to the same interventions.