Making Rti Work: How Smart Schools Are Reforming Education Through Schoolwide Response-To-Intervention - Paperback

by Wayne Sailor (Author)

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

Front Jacket

Making RTI Work

Although Response-to-Intervention (RTI)--a series of increasingly intensive interventions with struggling students--is mandated at schools across the country, many schools are finding it difficult to implement successfully. Making RTI Work offers proven guidelines for implementing RTI effectively in any school setting--urban, suburban, or rural. Written by Wayne Sailor, who recently directed a major national study in the area of RTI and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this important resource explains how successful schools using RTI manage the process and put the various components of the program into action. Filled with helpful real-world examples, the book shows how the RTI process can work effectively in addressing both academic and behavioral challenges. Step by step, Sailor outlines the best practices for implementing RTI at the classroom level, school-wide, district-wide, and statewide level.

Making RTI Work offers educators and school leaders the knowledge and tools they need to establish and sustain an effective RTI program that will help ensure that all students succeed.

Praise for Making RTI Work

At its heart, school reform is about great teachers and great teaching. RTI is one of the most powerful tools to support great teaching, and...Sailor shows how it can be implemented most effectively.
--Michelle Rhee, M.P.P., chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

The promises and possibilities of RTI become real in this book. Sailor's refreshing approach makes the content accessible and doable for general and special educators; school administrators, counselors and psychologists; district and state leaders; and community and family members.
--George Sugai, Ph.D., Carole J. Neag endowed chair and professor, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs

For educators who work in the complex world of America's schools, Sailor offers a path forward.
--Elizabeth B. Kozleski, Ed.D., professor and principal investigator, The Equity Alliance, Arizona State University

Back Jacket

Making RTI Work

Although Response-to-Intervention (RTI)--a series of increasingly intensive interventions with struggling students--is mandated at schools across the country, many schools are finding it difficult to implement successfully. Making RTI Work offers proven guidelines for implementing RTI effectively in any school setting--urban, suburban, or rural. Written by Wayne Sailor, who recently directed a major national study in the area of RTI and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this important resource explains how successful schools using RTI manage the process and put the various components of the program into action. Filled with helpful real-world examples, the book shows how the RTI process can work effectively in addressing both academic and behavioral challenges. Step by step, Sailor outlines the best practices for implementing RTI at the classroom level, school-wide, district-wide, and statewide level.

Making RTI Work offers educators and school leaders the knowledge and tools they need to establish and sustain an effective RTI program that will help ensure that all students succeed.

Praise for Making RTI Work

"At its heart, school reform is about great teachers and great teaching. RTI is one of the most powerful tools to support great teaching, and...Sailor shows how it can be implemented most effectively."
--Michelle Rhee, M.P.P., chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

"The promises and possibilities of RTI become real in this book. Sailor's refreshing approach makes the content accessible and doable for general and special educators; school administrators, counselors and psychologists; district and state leaders; and community and family members."
--George Sugai, Ph.D., Carole J. Neag endowed chair and professor, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs

"For educators who work in the complex world of America's schools, Sailor offers a path forward."
--Elizabeth B. Kozleski, Ed.D., professor and principal investigator, The Equity Alliance, Arizona State University

Author Biography

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.