RTI Tier Guidance

The basic RTI/MTSS workflow is Plan, Progress Report, Follow-Up (along with an annual Right to Information document).

There are three sets of RTI/MTSS forms in SameGoal for each of the three tiers. These sets of forms are very similar but are kept separate to help track a student's movement between tiers.

• If your district chooses to track Tier 1 interventions for students who will likely need Tier 2 support later, they should have an RTI Tier 1 Plan and an RTI Tier 1 Follow-Up. There is no Progress Report for Tier 1.
• If a student is receiving Tier 2 interventions, they should have an RTI Tier 2 Plan, an RTI Tier 2 Progress Report, and an RTI Tier 2 Follow-Up.
• If a student is receiving Tier 3 interventions, they should have an RTI Tier 3 Plan, an RTI Tier 3 Progress Report, and an RTI Tier 3 Follow-Up.

A student may have multiple sets of RTI documents open simultaneously if they are in different tiers in different subjects/areas. For example, they could have a Tier 2 RTI Plan and a Tier 3 RTI Plan at the same time.

However, only one set of documents is needed per tier. For example, if a student is receiving tier 2 interventions in multiple subjects, all tier 2 interventions can be tracked in a single Tier 2 RTI Plan, a single Tier 2 Progress Report, and a single Tier 2 Follow-Up.

Tier 1 intervention tracking is an optional workflow. If your district does not wish to use the Tier 1 forms, they can be deleted and the workflows for Tier 2 and Tier 3 will not be impacted.