Jumpstart RTI : Using RTI in Your Elementary School Right Now

"This book provides strategies and useful tips on how a school can create a positive learning community with RTI practices that affect the learning lives of all students."
―Alice Hom, Principal
Yung Wing Elementary P.S. 124, NY

"Susan L. Hall offers an excellent evidence-based, easy-to-follow program to ensure that all students achieve their fullest potential!"
―Barbara P. Misuraca, Exceptional Needs Educator
Detroit Public Schools, MI

Susan L. Hall eloquently speaks about getting RTI going in your school and what differentiates this book from other books on the same subject.

Improve learning for all students through RTI in record time

Susan L. Hall asserts that an educator′s job is not done until a school′s RTI practices result in at least 95 percent of its students reading at benchmark levels. This book′s research-based strategies will get you started on the road to achieving those results quickly, efficiently, and successfully. Included are case studies, delivery models, practical tools, reproducibles, analysis worksheets, and forms that can be downloaded from a secure website. This compact guide provides step-by-step instructions for:

• Effectively implementing RTI in reading for all students
• Integrating diagnostic and curriculum-based measures in program development
• Measuring RTI′s impact on student learning

RTI is useful for many purposes beyond improving reading and determining special education qualification. It offers schools a unique opportunity to identify, measure, and improve all students′ reading skills. Because improving student reading is what really matters, this book′s focus is consistently riveted to achieving success. Jumpstart RTI shows how to make it happen.

Susan L. Hall is founder and president of the 95 Percent Group Inc., which focuses on early childhood reading education and small-group intervention to give 95% of kindergarten through third grade students the opportunity to read at or above their grade level. A frequent speaker and lecturer, she also serves on the advisory board of the Neuhaus Education Center. Hall is a member of the Reading First Review Panel for state grant proposals and is also a Sopris West certified trainer for DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) and LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling). She is the author of I′ve DIBEL′d, Now What?, and a co-author with Louisa C. Moats of two books, Straight Talk About Reading and Parenting a Struggling Reader. Hall earned her bachelor′s degree at Lawrence University, her master′s degree from Harvard University, and her doctorate of education from National-Louis University.