It's About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School

Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid. Explore more than a dozen examples of creative and flexible scheduling, and gain access to tools you can use immediately to overcome implementation challenges. This book is full of examples from real schools that have achieved these results without using additional resources or extending the school day.

Benefits:

• Learn to build time into the school day to support students who need intervention.
• Read accounts of elementary school educators who have successfully implemented response to intervention practices.
• Understand the challenges of creating intervention time, and gain tips to overcome them.
• Access resources to support your school's or district's intervention policies.

Contents:
Introduction: Harnessing the Power of Time
Chapter 1: Choosing Prevention Before Intervention
Chapter 2: Looking in the Mirror
Chapter 3: Collaborating in the Core
Chapter 4: Making Mid-Unit Interventions as Easy as 1-2-3
Chapter 5: Teaming Up in Tier 1
Chapter 6: Focusing on the "Principal" of the Thing
Chapter 7: Working in an RTI Construction Zone
Chapter 8: Making Time at Tier 2
Chapter 9: Accelerating Learning With an Aligned Curriculum
Chapter 10: Ensuring All Really Means All
Chapter 11: Creating Consistency and Collective Responsibility
Chapter 12: Personalizing Learning Through Online Interventions

Editors

Mike Mattos is an internationally recognized author, presenter, and practitioner who specializes in uniting teachers, administrators, and support staff to transform schools by implementing the response to intervention (RTI) and PLC processes. Mike co-created the RTI at Work™ model, which builds on the foundation of the PLC at Work process to successfully create systematic, multitiered systems of support to ensure high levels of learning for all students.

He is former principal of Marjorie Veeh Elementary School and Pioneer Middle School in California. At both schools, Mike helped create powerful PLCs, improving learning for all students. In 2004, Marjorie Veeh, an elementary school with a large population of youth at risk, won the California Distinguished School and National Title I Achieving School awards.

A National Blue Ribbon School, Pioneer is among only thirteen schools in the United States selected by the GE Foundation as a Best-Practice Partner and is one of eight schools chosen by Richard DuFour to be featured in the video series The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Bringing the Big Ideas to Life. Based on standardized test scores, Pioneer ranks among the top 1 percent of California secondary schools and, in 2009 and 2011, was named Orange County's top middle school. For his leadership, Mike was named the Orange County Middle School Administrator of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators.

Austin Buffum, EdD, has more than 45 years of experience in public schools. His many roles include serving as former senior deputy superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District in California. Dr. Buffum has presented in over 500 school districts throughout the country and around the world. He delivers trainings and presentations on the RTI at Work™ model. This tiered approach to RTI is centered on Professional Learning Communities at Work™ concepts and strategies to ensure every student receives the time and support necessary to succeed. Dr. Buffum also delivers workshops and presentations that provide the tools educators need to build and sustain PLCs.

Dr. Buffum was selected 2006 Curriculum and Instruction Administrator of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators. He attended the Principals' Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was greatly inspired by its founder, Roland Barth, an early advocate of the collaborative culture that defines PLCs today. Dr. Buffum later led Capistrano's K-12 instructional program on an increasingly collaborative path toward operating as a PLC. During this process, 37 of the district's schools were designated California Distinguished Schools and 11 received National Blue Ribbon recognition.

Dr. Buffum is coauthor of Generations at School.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Dr. Buffum earned a bachelor of music and received a master of education with honors. He also holds a doctor of education from Nova Southeastern University.

Contributors

Brian K. Butler; Paul Goldberg; Merrilou Harrison; Susan B. Huff; Lillie G. Jessie; Sharon V. Kramer; Maria Nielsen; Regina Stephens Owens; Will Remmert; Paula Rogers; Chris Weber; John R. Wink.