Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I enjoyed reading your response. I agree with your changes to the procedural safeguards. It is very important for parents to be notified and to consent to the program. RTI is a very fluid concept which makes it very confusing to understand for most teachers not including parents. It would be a grand idea for the school to discuss the RTI model they are using with the parents and how this affects referrals to special education. I enjoyed reading your post. It really intrigued me because I had not thought about the procedural safeguards while finishing this assignment. I concur with your thought about how crucial the parent relationship is and to encourage this involvement. Yell (2012) states that if a child
