Building Your School's Capacity to Implement RTI: An ASCD Action Tool - Softcover

Patricia Addison (author)|Cynthia Warger (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416611681 ISBN 13: 9781416611684

Publisher: ASCD, 2011

Synopsis

Once your school has established the reason and the will to move forward with Response to Intervention (RTI), you still have to navigate all the difficult steps of implementing core instruction with a multitiered system of supports, data-based problem solving, progress monitoring, and universal screening. That's where this ASCD Action Tool comes in handy. The guide gives your leadership team all the tools it needs to plan RTI and determine how it will be implemented regardless of the RTI model being followed. Over 70 tools―including conversation starters, reflection probes, learning activities, and planning and assessment forms―take your RTI implementation through the steps of:

• Getting started, including forming the RTI Leadership Planning Team and deciding how RTI aligns with the school's vision and school improvement goals.
• Understanding the major RTI components―an effective core instructional program for all students, a multitiered system of support for struggling students, data-based problem solving, progress monitoring, and universal screening―and assessing the capacity of school staff to implement each.
• Developing the RTI framework and creating the RTI implementation plan.
• Introducing RTI to school staff and conducting and monitoring implementation activities.
• Each tool is accompanied by an orientation to the topic featured in the tool and steps to using the tool, plus tips and variations for ensuring success.

About this title

About the Author

Warger is an educational consultant with Warger, Eavy & Associates

From the Inside Flap

Response to Intervention, or RTI, is a schoolwide improvement process that can benefit all students. But for the process to work, leaders and staff must learn how to implement it in the way that best fits their school communities and practices.

This action tool guides educators through the process of creating an RTI framework, including forming a planning team, learning about and teaching staff the RTI components, and determining staff and team roles and responsibilities.

Whether you're just starting to build an RTI framework or want to improve your existing practices, the 75 tools in this book will help you to systematically build your school's teams and processes for implementing RTI. Recognizing that every school and district is different, the authors have created variations that let you adapt the tools to your current practices or your preferred route toward developing and implementing an RTI framework that meets your students' needs.

Building Your School's Capacity to Implement RTI is designed to help administrators and school improvement teams examine each major component of an RTI framework universal screening, effective core instruction, a multitiered system of student supports, data-based problem solving, and progress monitoring and determine how these components align with current school processes and where capacity building will be needed.

By aligning existing practices and school and district goals with the components of an effective RTI framework, you can build your school's capacity to best implement this schoolwide improvement initiative and increase student success.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416611681
• ISBN 13: 9781416611684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380