We can make teachers' lives more straight-forward by viewing Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention as two aspects of a whole. At no point in any RTI tier should instruction be provided in a strictly one-size-fits-all format. Differentiation should occur naturally within each tier.

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Dr. Althea Woodruff currently provides support to Texas state-level partners, districts, and schools through the Building RTI Capacity for Implementation in Texas Schools project at UT Austin’s Meadows Center. She also helped write theTexas Literacy Achievement Academies (LAAs) for grades K-1, and she is the lead author on the LAAs, grades 2-3, and Reading to Learn Academies, grades 4-5. Prior to this work, Dr. Woodruff was the reading specialist and English/language arts coordinator for Del Valle ISD. Through her work as a district administrator, researcher, lecturer, and consultant, Dr. Woodruff has provided extensive support to Texas educators in effective, research-based reading and writing instruction. She has created and delivered multiple reading and writing trainings for the state of Texas and several of its statewide initiatives, including Texas Reading First, the Texas Literacy Initiative, and Write for Texas.