Full Description
Experts Bernhardt and Hébert's latest book demonstrates strategies to ensure your entire staff works together to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system with integrity and fidelity. Each step in this important resource is designed to help administrators, teachers, and other educators improve the learning of every student by implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) as part of a continuous school improvement process. This second edition spotlights the "Five Stages of RtI Implementation" and is complemented by the robust online RtI Implementation Guide, which includes more than 30 downloadable templates, examples, and other files to help schools start their journey of establishing a successful system. By applying the authors' insightful guidance in Response to Intervention (RtI) and Continuous School Improvement (CSI), you'll be able to redesign your general and special education programs to put your school on a path toward improvement!
Contents
Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
RtI AND CSI: RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION AND CONTINUOUS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
RtI and CSI
Stages of Implementation
Stage 1: Study and Commit
Stage 2: Plan
Stage 3: Build Capacity
Stage 4: Implement and Monitor
Stage 5: Continuously Improve
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: STUDY AND COMMIT
Core Principles of RtI
Intent of RtI
Deficit Versus Risk Model
Components of RtI
Integrity and Fidelity of Implementation
Relationship of RtI to Special Education
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
CONTINUOUS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT: STUDY AND COMMIT
Continuous School Improvement Framework
Where Are We Now?
Relationship of RtI to CSI
Who Are We?
How Do We Do Business?
How Are Our Students Doing?
What Are Our Processes?
Looking Across the Multiple Measures of Data
How Did We Get to Where We Are?
Where Do We Want to Be?
How Are We Going to Get to Where We Want to Be?
Is What We Are Doing Making a Difference?
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
PLANNING WITH THE RTI IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
Planning with the RtI Implementation Guide
Components of the System of Responsive Interventions
Multi-Level Prevention System
Roles and Responsibilities
Referral Processes and Documentation
Other RtI Related Items for Which to Plan
Applying RtI to Behavior
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
BUILD CAPACITY
Build Capacity
Leaders and Leadership Structures
Sharing with Staff
Professional Learning
Instructional Coherence
Parent Involvement
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR
Instructional Design for Primary Prevention
Instructional Design for Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
Data Teams for RtI
Documentation
Monitoring Implementation
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
RtI IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING TIMELINE
RtI Implementation and Monitoring Timeline
PATH Process
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE
Continuous School Improvement and Evaluation
Is RtI Being Implemented with Integrity and Fidelity?
Is Acceptable Progress Being Made?
What is the Impact of RtI Implementation?
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Stages of Implementation
What RtI Is Not
Recommendations
Book Study Questions
Application Opportunities
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
INDEX
