RTI Toolkit : A Practical Guide for Schools
by Wright, JimFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-14
Publisher(s): Natl Professional Resources Inc
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Summary
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a problem-solving approach that can greatly expand the capacity of schools to accommodate diverse learners. This book provides school administrators and teachers with essential techniques, resources, and guidelines to start a comprehensive "Response To Intervention" process in their own schools. Readers will learn how to: help stakeholders "buy-in" to the RTI process, inventory and organize intervention resources; establish a school-based problem-solving team; create research-based and classroom-friendly student intervention plans; set objective goals for student improvement; monitor an chart student progress; apply decision rules to determine when a student who fails to respond to intervention should be referred.
Author Biography
Jim Wright, M.S. is a certified school psychologist and school administrator in central New York. He has earned a regional and national reputation based upon his extensive training on Response to Intervention topics, including Curriculum-Based Measurement, and academic and behavioral interventions. In November of 2001, the New York State Association of School Psychologists selected Jim for the "Leadership in School Psychology" award. Jim is also the creator of Intervention Central, a popular web site featuring free student intervention ideas and assessment resources.
Table of Contents
| Response to Intervention: A Model to Improve Systems of Support for Struggling Learners | p. 1 |
| RTI: A Description | p. 3 |
| History of RTI | p. 7 |
| RTI: A Work in Progress | p. 10 |
| RTI: A Promise Unfolding | p. 13 |
| Launching RTI In Your School: Gauging School Readiness, Educating Stakeholders and Inventorying Resources | p. 17 |
| Creating RTI Steering Group | p. 18 |
| Rating School's "RTI Readiness" | p. 18 |
| Sharing the RTI Model with School Community | p. 19 |
| Identifying Resources to be used for RTI | p. 21 |
| RTI: Next Steps | p. 23 |
| Exhibits | p. 25 |
| Harnessing Your Schools Collective Intelligence: Creating a Multi-Disciplinary RTI Team | p. 45 |
| Essential Elements of the Team Problem-Solving Model | p. 46 |
| Roles of RTI Team Members | p. 48 |
| An Overview of RTI Team Meeting Process | p. 50 |
| Steps in the Initial RTI Team Meeting | p. 51 |
| Troubleshooting Common RTI Team Challenges | p. 53 |
| Exhibits | p. 59 |
| Interventions: How to Select, Package, and Use Them | p. 89 |
| Matching Interventions to Student Need | p. 90 |
| Checking for Student Motivation | p. 91 |
| Applying the Instructional Hierarchy | p. 92 |
| Defining Student Academic Problems in Specific Terms | p. 93 |
| Packaging Interventions as Teacher Friendly Script | p. 93 |
| Determining the Intensity of an Intervention | p. 94 |
| Measuring Intervention Follow-Through | p. 96 |
| Assembling an "Intervention Bank" | p. 98 |
| Exhibits | p. 101 |
| Methods to Monitor Academic and Behavioral Interventions | p. 113 |
| Common Types of Assessment Data | p. 114 |
| Summative vs. Formative Assessment Data | p. 117 |
| Baseline Assessment and Progress-Monitoring | p. 118 |
| Assessment Data: Information Content vs. Specificity | p. 119 |
| Integrating Assessment into Your School-Wide RTI Process | p. 120 |
| Exhibits | p. 123 |
| Is Intervention Working? Guidelines for Goal-Setting and Decision-Making | p. 169 |
| Methods to Determine Student's Expected Levels of Achievement | p. 171 |
| Closing the Gap: Calculating Expected Rates of Student Progress | p. 174 |
| Frequently Asked Questions about Decision-Making | p. 175 |
| Exhibits | p. 181 |
| Future Developments in RTI: Preparing for RTI:2.0 | p. 185 |
| RTI 2.0: The Next Generation of Response to Intervention | p. 185 |
| Marching Toward RTI 2.0: How Schools Can Stay Current with the Evolving RTI Model | p. 188 |
| RTI: A Promise Fulfilled | p. 190 |
| Exhibit | p. 193 |
| School-Wide Strategies for Managing | p. 197 |
| Reading | p. 197 |
| Writing | p. 205 |
| Curriculum Based Measurement Administration and Scoring Guidelines for | p. 213 |
| Reading | p. 214 |
| Math | p. 220 |
| Writing | p. 226 |
| Resources | p. 233 |
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