The document provides information on Response to Intervention (RTI) and Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) documents for more restrictive placement options. It explains that RTI documents track student progress data from interventions and are used to make data-driven decisions about a student's placement. If data shows a student needs a more restrictive setting, the RTI document is finalized and the information is copied to an LRE document. Possible placement sites are then considered and a team meeting is held to discuss the student's placement.

1. Response to Intervention (RTI) and
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Documents:
More Restrictive Option
Office of Special Education
Placement
Fall 2011

2. Goals
• Participants will become familiar with the
purpose of RTI and LRE documents for the
more restrictive placement option.
• Participants will be able to identify the steps
for creating RTI and LRE documents for the
more restrictive placement option.

3. What is the
Response to Intervention (RTI) Document?
• A document for tracking students’ progress
data for implemented interventions and
strategies.
• An ongoing, draft document.

4. Why use the RTI Document?
• To document a student’s progress when
additional interventions are implemented.
• To use that documentation to make
sound, data-driven decisions regarding a
student’s least restrictive environment.

5. Who utilizes the RTI document?
• School Team Members – Teacher, Behavior
Interventionist, IEP Chairperson
• Office of Special Education Specialists and
Resource Teachers

6. When do you use the RTI document?
• Create the document when additional
strategies and interventions are implemented.
• Add data to show the student’s response to
those strategies and interventions as you
continue to address the student’s needs.

7. RTI Document

8. RTI Document

9. Direct Contact with OSE
• Follow the current guidelines for contacting
your Specialist and Resource Teacher.
• They will also document their observations
and suggestions on the RTI document.

10. RTI Next Steps
• If the school and OSE staff determine, based
on the data collected, the student requires a
more restrictive environment….
– The IEP Chairperson finalizes and electronically
signs the RTI document.
– The OSE Specialist electronically signs the RTI
document.

11. RTI to LRE
• The IEP Chair creates an LRE document.
• Copy forward the information from the RTI
document to the LRE document.
• The IEP Chair electronically signs the LRE document.
• The OSE Specialist electronically signs the LRE
document.

12. LRE Document

13. LRE Document Next Steps
• The Placement Office will provide possible sites of
service on the LRE document.
• The sending school and possible receiving schools will
receive a TieNet notification.
• The sending school holds a team meeting, including
staff from possible receiving schools, to discuss
placement.
• Section 4 of the LRE document is completed after team
by the IEP Chair.
• The Placement Office will complete the final section of
the LRE document and TieNet notifications will be sent.

14. Questions? Comments?
• Office of Special
Education, Placement, x3660
• Allison Myers, amyers2@bcps.org
• Lauren Karow, lkarow@bcps.org
• Jerry Platt