Gathering Data

Do you have a data collecting form or process in your district or school?  What do you do with your data once you have it; who owns it; where is it housed; how is it accessed for monitoring purposes?

There is not just one pathway to collect data when working with students, but you should have a uniform system within your school or district in order to streamline the process for RtI.  

When you are beginning the RtI process with a potential 2e child for whom you might have concerns, you want to ensure you are looking at the whole child.  Remember - they are complex.  They have many layers to them and often what you see on the surface is not all that exists.  You want to get to really get to know them to see what could be the "root cause" of what might be happening with the child both in and out of school.   You are looking at every aspect of the child whether it is academic, behavioral, emotional, physical, or more.