Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds, PhD, is the Director of the National Center on Intensive Intervention, which is a federally funded technical assistance center focused on supporting students with severe and persistent learning and behavioral needs. She previously directed an Investing in Innovation and Improvement development grant focused on intensive mathematics intervention and she worked on the National Evaluation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavior. She is the author of multiple publications focused on screening and progress monitoring assessment, mathematics intervention, intensive intervention, and systemic factors affecting implementation of tiered systems. Prior to AIR, she supported implementation of Response to Intervention at the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and she taught special education in public and private lab schools. She holds a PhD in special education with concentration in quantitative research methods from Vanderbilt University.