A Practical Guide to Planning Interventions & Monitoring Progress

Learn innovative strategies to design and measure effective classroom interventions. The author offers teachers, individualized education program coordinators, and administrators research-based strategies and tools to create and document highly individualized plans that support response to intervention efforts and IEPs. Each chapter includes examples and case studies of students representing various grade levels and needs.

Lee Ann Jung, PhD, is an associate professor and the director of international school partnerships in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, where she joined the faculty in 2002. Her research and university courses focus on intervention planning, progress monitoring, and working with families.

Lee Ann has worked in the field of education since 1994 as a special educator, administrator, consultant, and researcher. Her research is informed by and grounded in her own work with families of children with disabilities. Her methods respond to schools' urgent need for solid, evidence-based intervention planning and progress monitoring, and they are also responsive to teachers' need for practicality and efficiency.

Lee Ann has served as associate editor of Young Exceptional Children and guest editor of Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. She is an editorial board member for these journals as well as Journal of Early Intervention and has authored more than thirty journal articles, books, and book chapters. Lee Ann has received in excess of $3 million in funding to support personnel preparation and research and was named Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher at the University of Kentucky in 2002.

Lee Ann is a graduate of Auburn University, with degrees in special education (PhD, 2001; EdM, 1997) and psychology (BA, 1994).