Making RTI Work
How Smart Schools are Reforming Education through Schoolwide Response-to-Intervention
Published on 3. December 2009
336 pages
978-0-470-61554-6 (ISBN)
Description
Offers best practices for implementing RTI at the school-widelevel-to ensure success for all learners
Response-to-Intervention is now mandated at schools across thecountry. While there are a handful of books offering tips onimplementation, schools are still struggling to find the bestapproaches. This book, from a prominent RTI researcher, explainshow the most successful schools using RTI manage the process.Sailor offers best practices for implementing RTI not only at theclassroom level, but also at the school-wide and district-widelevels, to ensure no student falls through the cracks and schoolsfulfill the promise of RTI.
* Offers clear guidance on implementing Response-to-Interventioneffectively
* Reveals the framework used by the most successful schools usingRTI
* Includes information on applying RTI for behavioral problems aswell as academic challenges
* Contains illustrative examples of how the approach is appliedat all levels, from individual student to school-wide anddistrict-wide
* Written by a top researcher in the field of Response-toIntervention
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Wayne Sailor, Ph.D., professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas, has been working on behalf of children with disabilities more than 30 years. He is associate director of the Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas.
Content
- Making RTI Work: How Smart Schools are Reforming Education through Schoolwide Response-to-Intervention
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- The Author
- Preface
- Part I: The Origin and Design of Schoolwide RTI
- Chapter 1: Defining RTI
- Features of RTI
- Evolving Definitions of RTI
- Comprehensive Schoolwide RTI
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 2: Schoolwide RTI: Why Does It Matter?
- The Frame of Disability
- RTI as a Potential Frame for Educational Policy
- RTI as a Basis for Educational Policy
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 3: The Social-Behavioral Side of RTI
- School Discipline
- Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support
- Understanding SWPBS
- To Sum Up
- Part II: How Schoolwide RTI Works
- Chapter 4: Universal Screening for Prevention
- Determining Success Criteria
- Behavioral Screening Under RTI
- Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders
- Academic Screening Under RTI
- Curriculum-Based Measures
- RTI Team Processes and Coaches
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 5: Progress Monitoring to Measure Success
- Educational Accountability
- Types of Assessment for Progress Monitoring
- Behavioral Progress Monitoring
- Academic Progress Monitoring
- RTI and the Organization of Services and Supports
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 6: Sustaining RTI Through School Reform
- Challenges Confronting Schoolwide RTI
- Professional Development
- School Reform as a Context for RTI
- The Schoolwide Applications Model
- Structural Elements of SAM
- To Sum Up
- Part III: Seeing RTI in Action
- Chapter 7: How RTI Looks at the Schoolwide Level
- Critical Features of Schoolwide RTI
- RTI and the Achievement Gap
- Leadership and Structure of the RTI School
- Madison Elementary School
- Coaching and Collaborative Teaching
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 8: How RTI Looks at the Districtwide Level
- Scaling Up in the District
- Getting Started in the District: Selecting Schools
- RTI in the Louisiana Recovery School District, New Orleans
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 9: How RTI Looks at the Statewide Level
- Federal Policy and RTI
- Kansas Multi-Tiered System of Support
- Colorado Multi-Tiered Model of Intervention and Instruction
- New Hampshire Responds Model
- To Sum Up
- Chapter 10: The Shape of Schools to Come
- No Child Left Behind and Adequate Yearly Progress
- Three Facets of Teaching
- RTI for the Endangered School
- Capacity Building and Sustainability
- Potential Traps in Implementing RTI
- The Undeniable Thrill of Success
- To Sum Up
- Sources and Additional Resources
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Index
