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The Complete Guide to RTI

An Implementation Toolkit

First Edition
By: Dolores Burton, John Kappenberg

This comprehensive toolkit prepares educators for the future of RTI. Included are strategies, techniques, and online resources for evaluating existing programs and implementing RTI effectively.

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Grade Level: PreK-12, Elementary, Secondary
ISBN: 9781412997096
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2011
Page Count: 240
Publication date: December 15, 2011

Price: $41.95

Description

Are you prepared for the RTI evolution?

This comprehensive toolkit will bring you up to speed on why RTI is one of the most important educational initiatives in recent history and sets the stage for its future role in teacher education and practice. The authors demonstrate innovative ways to use RTI to inform instruction and guide curriculum development in inclusive classroom settings. Your RTI implementation team will find strategies, techniques, and checklists for evaluating existing programs and implementing RTI effectively. The text's broad perspective includes:

A concise description of RTI's history and evolution
A leadership framework for school and district administrators
Applications in reading and literacy, mathematics, and behavior support
Guidelines for involving parents, students, and communities

In addition, chapters address progress monitoring, instructional support teams, and creating time for RTI in middle and high schools. The text is supported by online technology links that include video, audio, and print media—everything you need to optimize RTI for the new landscape of 21^st-century education.

Author(s)

Dolores Burton

Dolores Burton is a Fulbright scholar and professor and chair of teacher education at New York Institute of Technology. She was a public school teacher, school district administrator, and author of instructional software. Dr. Burton designed, delivered, and supervised professional development for teachers in grades k-12 in mathematics, literacy, science, differentiated instruction, action research, instructional technology and inclusive practices. She has organized symposia for educators on research based strategies to close the achievement gap of the traditionally underserved populations; African American males, English Language Learners, students with special needs, and others at-risk for academic failure. Her research interests include Response to Intervention, teacher preparation, (elementary through college), Common Core standards, professional development, using data to drive instruction, and the use of technology to teach all students especially those who have traditionally been underserved. She has published in numerous journals and consulted regionally, nationally, and internationally.

John Kappenberg

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1. Keynote: Reasons and Resources for Learning Response to Intervention

Chapter 2. Progressing With Progress Monitoring

Chapter 3. The Instructional Support Team (IST): A Foundation of the RTI Process

Chapter 4. Literacy Instruction: Tier 1

Chapter 5. Literacy Intervention: Tiers 2 and 3

Chapter 6. Mathematics Difficulty or Mathematics

Chapter 7. Response to Intervention and Positive Behavior Support

Chapter 8. Emerging Agendas in Collaboration: Working With Families in the RTI Process

Chapter 9. Leadership: The Role of District and School Administrators in Implementing RTI

Chapter 10. Managing Time: RTI in the Middle and High School Master Schedule

Epilogue: Why Implement RTI?

References and Resources

Index

Reviews

"This book will be of utmost value to teachers, administrators, and parents in the shift to not just talking about but acting upon intervention directed toward the needs of our students."

Lori Grossman, Academic Trainer
Houston ISD, TX

"This is the book that I have been searching for. It is a real how-to for individual and institutional success with the children who have been left behind for too long."

A. L. Hough-Everage, Associate Professor of Education
Brandman University, Victorville, CA

"This book is the most comprehensive tool I have read that incorporates technology into analyzing the academic and behavioral data of the RTI process for all students. It is a truly phenomenal resource that I would highly recommend for all professionals in the educational field who are interested in maximizing their students’ achievement."

Lisa Graham, Program Specialist, Curriculum & Staff Development
Special Education, Vallejo City Unified School District, CA

"Through the discussion of RTI, the author introduces and reinforces many different teaching techniques and styles that enable the teaching professional to explore the concept. School personnel are challenged to move forward in their journey in the education of the individual child."

Deborah D. Therriault, Special Education Teacher
Clarkston Community Schools, MI

"This book can be read as an overview, a manual, a reference tool, or as a textbook. The content, resources, and references are comprehensive."

Sue DeLay, Teacher-Math Interventionist
Oak Creek-Franklin School District, WI

"The Complete Guide to RTI does not claim to be something new, but it provides the teacher a guide to becoming reacquainted with an approach to the problems of early education. It spells out the steps and tiers necessary to providing the necessary growth in a child’s personal progress."

Elizabeth Alvarez, Assistant Principal
Chicago Public Schools, IL

“Well-documented research supports the topic of this book. The authors explain with clarity the objectives and purposes of Response to Intervention, then support the program with outstanding tools to facilitate execution. A must for every school in America!”

Esther M. Eacho, Education Specialist
McLean, VA

"This is an exceptional work – a compelling response to the perennial problems plaguing our schools. Anyone who wants to support struggling students while continuously improving schools should look to The Complete Guide to RTI for direction. This book will be one of the more important educational treatises of our times."

Marian White-Hood, Director of Academics
Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools and SeeForever Foundation, Washington, DC

"This book creatively extends beyond the nuts and bolts of RTI by offering a complete overview of what is needed to make the implementation and evaluation of such a model successful."

S. Russell Vaden, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology
Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC

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