Fast feedback. Fierce care.
Teaching small group intervention is about catching kids before they fall through the cracks. Within a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework, Jazlyn Marcos uses data to identify exactly where each student is struggling—then delivers targeted, ten-minute lessons that close gaps before they widen. With a background in education, curriculum design, and environmental sustainability, she designs intervention groups that are warm, focused, and efficient. No fluff. No shame. Just the right skill, at the right time, with the right support—so every child gets back to grade-level confidence as quickly as possible.
Leveled Centers
Leveled centers are stations where the task stays the same—for example, all students might be at a phonics center matching pictures to beginning sounds—but the materials are carefully matched to each small group's current skill level, so one group works on single letters, another on consonant blends, and another on vowel teams, all without any child feeling "too easy" or "too hard." We do this because leveled centers work hand-in-hand with small group intervention: the data you gather from watching a child struggle at her center becomes the target for your next RTI (Response to Intervention) pull-out group, and what you teach in that small group then feeds back into tomorrow's leveled center materials, creating a continuous loop of assessment, instruction, and practice.
Response to Intervention (RTI)
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered system where all children receive high-quality whole-class instruction (Tier 1), some children get small group targeted support (Tier 2) based on regular progress monitoring, and a few children receive intensive one-on-one or very small group interventions (Tier 3)—all before any child is evaluated for special education services. We do this because waiting for a child to fail is not a strategy; RTI catches struggling readers and mathematicians early, often in kindergarten or first grade, and provides immediate, data-driven help with decoding, number sense, or comprehension before the gap widens into a canyon.