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.

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 fulfil the promise of RTI.

The book lays out in a straightforward manner, how to implement RTI effectively, the frameworks used most successfully , best practices, the critical importance of the behavioural components (and why not to use referrals as a screening tool) and the best ways to measure effectiveness.

• 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 behavioural 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