Empowering Interventions Help! Jess refuses to come to class on time. Nothing I have tried works, what can I do? Our goal is to support middle school teachers by arming them with practical interventions as they journey toward changing their own behaviors to affect student emotional and social growth. We will present our trek from traditional to intervention based practices as we created small learning communities within a middle school of over 900 students. Students' achievement was evident as they took unprecedented risks in this safe learning environment. The RTI mandate is fast approaching, and we can help prepare you. (Javascript is required to view Mediasite content)