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Jumpstart RTI
Using RTI in Your Elementary School Right Now



June 2012 | 144 pages | Corwin
Susan L. Hall asserts that an educator's job is not done until a school's RTI practices result in at least 95 percent of its students reading at benchmark levels. This book's research-based strategies will get you started on the road to those results quickly, efficiently, and successfully. Included are case studies, delivery models, practical tools, reproducibles, analysis worksheets, and forms that can be downloaded from a secure website. This compact guide provides step-by-step instructions for:

- Effectively implementing RTI for all students

- Integrating curricular-based measures in program development

- Measuring RTI's impact on student learning

RTI is useful for many purposes beyond determining special education qualification. It offers schools a unique opportunity to identify, measure, and improve all students' reading skills. Because improving student reading is what really matters, this book's focus is consistently riveted to achieving success. Jumpstart RTI shows how to make it happen.

 
Publisher's Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Introduction
Why This Book Is Needed

 
Overview of the Contents

 
 
1. Ninety-five Percent of Students at Benchmark Is Achievable: A District Example
New Approach

 
What Level of Success Is Possible?

 
Professional Development

 
Next Steps

 
Conclusion

 
 
2. Getting Ready
Motivating Staff: ?Call to Action?

 
Build Buy-In

 
Create the RTI Team

 
Planning Period

 
Conclusion

 
 
3. Getting Started
Create an Assessment Plan

 
Select a Delivery Model

 
Add Intervention Blocks

 
Year 1: First Half

 
Conclusion

 
 
4. Analyzing Data and Forming Groups
Curriculum-Based Assessment

 
Diagnostic Assessment

 
Progress Monitoring

 
Regrouping Cycle

 
Systems to Manage the Data

 
Year 1: Second Half

 
Conclusion

 
 
5. Delivering Effective Intervention Instruction
Characteristics of Effective Intervention Instruction

 
Other Considerations

 
Intervention Materials and Programs

 
Conclusion

 
 
6. Initiating a Problem-Solving Process
Grade-Level Team Meetings

 
Problem-Solving Meetings

 
RTI Team Meetings

 
Conclusion

 
 
7. Referring a Student for Special Education Testing
RTI and Special Education

 
Change in Role of Special Education Staff

 
Communication With Parents

 
Conclusion

 
 
Bibliography
 
Index

"This book offers an excellent evidence-based, easy to follow program to ensure that all students excel to their fullest potential!"

Barbara P. Misuraca, Exceptional Needs Educator
Detroit Public Schools, MI

"The author describes an RTI process that helps readers of every level increase their reading skills, including gifted and average readers as well as those who struggle."

Kathy Tritz-Rhodes, Principal
Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Schools, MI

"This book provides strategies and useful tips on how a school can create a positive learning community with RTI practices that impact the learning lives of all students."

Alice Hom, Principal
Yung Wing Elementary P.S. 124, NY

Sample Materials & Chapters

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Susan L. Hall

Susan L. Hall is founder and president of the 95 Percent Group Inc., which focuses on early childhood reading education and small-group intervention to give 95% of kindergarten through third grade students the opportunity to read at or above their grade level. A frequent speaker and lecturer, she also serves on the advisory board of the Neuhaus Education Center. Hall is a member of the Reading First Review Panel for state grant proposals and is also a Sopris West certified trainer for DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) and LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling). She is the author of I... More About Author

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