Making RTI Work: How Smart Schools are Reforming Education through Schoolwide Response-to-Intervention

Offers best practices for implementing RTI at the school-wide level-to ensure success for all learners

Response-to-Intervention is now mandated at schools across the country. While there are a handful of books offering tips on implementation, schools are still struggling to find the best approaches. This book, from a prominent RTI researcher, explains how the most successful schools using RTI manage the process. Sailor offers best practices for implementing RTI not only at the classroom level, but also at the school-wide and district-wide levels, to ensure no student falls through the cracks and schools fulfill the promise of RTI.

• Offers clear guidance on implementing Response-to-Intervention effectively
• Reveals the framework used by the most successful schools using RTI
• Includes information on applying RTI for behavioral problems as well as academic challenges
• Contains illustrative examples of how the approach is applied at all levels, from individual student to school-wide and district-wide
• Written by a top researcher in the field of Response-to Intervention

Wayne Sailor, Ph.D., professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas, has been working on behalf of children with disabilities more than 30 years. He is associate director of the Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas.