RTI Success: Proven Tools and Strategies for Schools and Classrooms

This all-in-one resource provides information on Response to Intervention (RTI) as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Despite ongoing federal initiatives meant to increase the profile and prevalence of RTI in the nation's schools, many educators continue to have questions about the framework. What are the three tiers of intervention? How do screening and progress monitoring work? Is there funding available? RTI Success provides the what and how-to information that educators have been asking for. Features of the book include: 

• Step-by-step guidelines for implementing RTI
• 100+ teacher-friendly, research-based strategies for targeting specific skill deficits
• "What to Try When" charts that help determine instruction techniques
• Tools for differentiating instruction to meet diverse classroom needs
• Vignettes and school profiles demonstrating RTI practices in diverse settings
• Ready-to-use assessments and educational profiles for documentation

Digital content includes staff development tools, a PowerPoint presentation, and 34 customizable reproducible forms.

Elizabeth Whitten, Ph.D., is a professor of Special Education and Literacy Studies at Western Michigan University. Prior to her eighteen years in higher education, Elizabeth was a teacher and an administrator. Kelli J. Esteves, Ed.D., is an assistant professor of Special Education and Literacy Studies at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kelli has experience as a special education teacher and reading specialist in the Rockford (MI) Public Schools. Alice Woodrow, Ed.D., is director of Special Education at Allegan Area Educational Service Agency in Allegan, Michigan. Alice has also served as supervisor of Special Education in the Comstock (MI) Public Schools.