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"--

Educators and school psychologists throughout the country are working with growing numbers of English language learners (ELLs), but often feel unprepared to help these students excel. This highly informative book presents evidence-based strategies for promoting proficiency in academic English and improving outcomes in a response-to-intervention (RTI) framework. Illustrated with a detailed case example, the book describes best practices for working with K-5 ELLs in all stages of RTI: universal screening, progress monitoring, data collection, decision making, and intensifying instruction. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

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.

The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create a focused RTI model that works.

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.