RTI Success: Proven Tools and Strategies for Schools and Classrooms - Softcover

Elizabeth Whitten; Kelli Esteves; Alice Woodrow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575423200 ISBN 13: 9781575423203

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Inc.,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

What is Response to Intervention (RTI) and how can it benefit your school? Find out in RTI Success, an all-in-one resource that provides information on this innovative model as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Despite ongoing federal initiatives meant to increase the profile and prevalence of RTI in the nation's schools, many educators continue to have questions about the framework. What are the three tiers of intervention? How do screening and progress monitoring work? Is there funding available? What ultimate benefit can Response to Intervention provide? Features of the book include: 34 reproducible forms for streamlined implementation, progress monitoring, and tier movement Step-by-step guidelines for implementing RTI 100+ teacher-friendly, research-based strategies for targeting specific skill deficits &34;What to Try When&34; charts that help determine instruction techniques Tools for differentiating instruction to meet diverse classroom needs Vignettes and school profiles demonstrating RTI practices in diverse settings Ready-to-use assessments and educational profiles for documentation Digital content includes staff development tools, a PowerPoint presentation, and 34 customizable reproducible forms. Who will benefit from RTI Success? Administrators will enjoy its detailed information on implementing the model at the school- or district-wide levels. Educators in the regular classroom can use its plentiful instructional strategies to address learners' specific difficulties. Special educators and classroom aides can utilize the book in support of screening, progress monitoring, and early intervention methods. Students, rather than struggle for long periods, can have unique needs assessed and met before academic challenges lead to chronic failure. Response to Intervention clearly has the potential to transform how schools work. What has been less obvious to many is how to implement the framework and effectively utilize intervention strategies in the classroom. RTI Success, written by three experienced practitioners in the field, provides this how-to information that educators have been asking for.

About this title

Review:

"I purchased "RTI Success" and I "love" it! I have shared it with my RTI team, and I plan to lend it out to other key members of our district."--Denise C. Lee, school adjustment counselor, John F. Kennedy Elementary, Brockton, MA.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Whitten, Ph.D., is a professor of Special Education and Literacy Studies at Western Michigan University. Prior to her eighteen years in higher education, Elizabeth was a teacher and an administrator. Kelli J. Esteves, Ed.D., is an assistant professor of Special Education and Literacy Studies at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kelli has experience as a special education teacher and reading specialist in the Rockford (MI) Public Schools. Alice Woodrow, Ed.D., is director of Special Education at Allegan Area Educational Service Agency in Allegan, Michigan. Alice has also served as supervisor of Special Education in the Comstock (MI) Public Schools.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1575423200
• ISBN 13: 9781575423203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256