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The Best of Corwin: Response to Intervention

By: Cara F. Shores

This ultimate guide to RTI takes practitioners through the challenging process of implementing response to intervention, a powerful tool for helping students achieve success.

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781452217413
Published By: Corwin
Series: The Best of Corwin
Year: 2011
Page Count: 208
Publication date: May 28, 2015

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The ultimate guide to RTI

The Best of Corwin series showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications for a powerful compilation of perspectives on important education issues and topics. This resource guides practitioners through the challenging and ultimately rewarding process of implementing response to intervention (RTI). The chapters address critical factors such as collecting and using valid and reliable data, choosing methods that are responsive to individual student needs, and implementing processes with fidelity. The authors describe RTI through various lenses:

Behavioral interventions
Grade-level approaches from elementary through high school
Strategies tailored to English learners
Specific content areas, including reading and math

Also included are assessment strategies and a framework for data-based decision making. Readers will find a variety of perspectives from leading experts who show how to use RTI to help students achieve success in school, making this collection a must-have for every educator.

Author(s)

Cara F. Shores

Cara Shores began her career as a special education teacher and taught children in both pullout and inclusive classrooms. Shores has trained thousands of teachers and administrators across the United States on practical strategies for inclusion, co-teaching, and increasing achievement for all students through differentiated instruction and RTI. She provides regional and national training for the Council for Exceptional Children. She is co-author of Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher. Shores now serves as the president of Wesley Educational Services. She received her master’s degree and educational specialists’s degree from the University of West Georgia and has served as student support services coordinator and district director of special education.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

About the Editor

About the Contributors

1. Response to Intervention

2. Determining Appropriate Research-Based Interventions

3. Framework for Instructional Intervention With Diverse Learners

4. Using Progress Monitoring Data

5. Leadership Perspectives on RTI

6. The Reading Brain and Literacy Instruction

7. Mathematics Intervention Overview

8. Classroom Interventions and Individual Behavior Plans

9. Fidelity of Implementation

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"This includes many invaluable chapters and topics, from determining applications of research-based intervention models to RTI leadership, using progress monitoring data, and much more. An invaluable, top pick for any educators' library!"

James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief

Other Titles in: Special Education Identification | RTI

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