A companion to Best Practices at Tier 1, this guide provides secondary educators with fundamental principles, practices, and tools for implementing effective Tier 2 intervention strategies.

Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for grades 6-12, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more.

Response to intervention (RTI) is the most effective process for ensuring student success, using differentiated instruction to provide the time and support necessary. This comprehensive implementation guide covers every element required to build a successful RTI at WorkTM program in schools. The authors share step-by-step actions for implementing the essential elements, instructional strategies, and tools needed to support implementation, as well as tips for engaging and supporting educators. Readers who valued the practical knowledge in Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many, and Mattos) will appreciate a similar style and practicality in Taking Action. This guide will help you incorporate the response to intervention process by allowing you to: Understand how RTI at WorkTM builds on the PLC at WorkTM process. Review the revised RTI at WorkTM pyramid and its three RTI tiers. Learn what roles teacher teams, leadership teams, and schoolwide teams play in a multi-tiered intervention structure. Understand the differences among intervention, extension, prevention, and enrichment. Avoid common missteps when implementing RTI (or MTSS). Consider why an achievement gap remains in 21st century education and how the RTI process can close that gap.

"In Best Practices at Tier 3: Intensive Interventions for Remediation, Secondary, authors Paula Rogers, W. Richard Smith, Austin Buffum, and Mike Mattos provide grades 6-12 educators research-based response to intervention (RTI) at Work strategies to meet the needs of students who have fallen the furthest behind in the classroom. These students struggle with what is being taught currently in the classroom as well as the basic, foundational skills that are taught in previous school years. The best way educators can intervene when students struggle is by implementing an effective RTI at Work process through a supportive professional learning community (PLC) framework. This guide will help educators learn how to improve their school's Tier 3 intensive interventions so students receive the support they need to learn at the highest levels"--

Fitzell, a teacher, speaker, and educational consultant specializing in special education and response-to-intervention, shows classroom teachers and intervention specialists at the secondary level how to use research-based response-to-intervention strategies in math, vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, and across the curriculum. After details on response-to-intervention in general, its efficacy, and the evidence supporting its use in secondary education, each chapter outlines two or more strategies through sample lesson plans that have been reformatted to follow response-to-intervention, with discussion of the research on their effectiveness and instructions for implementation of lessons and extension activities for all three tiers. The last chapter addresses acceleration centers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Provides educators with instructions on applying response-to-intervention (RTI) while teaching and planning curriculum for students with learning disabilities.

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

This book has been replaced by Assessment for Reading Instruction, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4157-7.

This user-friendly guide offers strategies and how-to's for implementing RTI in classrooms and schoolwide, providing team-building techniques, academic and behavioral interventions, and more.