response to intervention (learning disabled children)

"Provides practical, research-based Response to Intervention (RTI) instructional strategies for middle school teachers and administrators. Includes examples of RTI strategies in diverse settings; information about implementing co-teaching and RTI; and customizable digital forms"--.

Provides information and materials for taking a positive and personal approach to Response to Intervention, discussing how to identify exceptions to learning problems, design interventions, and implement a three-tiered RTI process, and including tips on decreasing paperwork, motivating students, engaging students and parents, and increasing morale.

"Judy Stoehr, Maria Banks, and Linda Allen's Weaving the Tapestry: Implementing and Sustaining Differentiation, Response to Intervention and Professional Learning Communities is a practical guide for educational leaders and teachers who are interested in understanding how professional learning communities, response to intervention, and differentiated instruction can all be effectively used together in a systematic, school-wide way. With practical classroom strategies and implementation and integration tools, Stoehr, Banks, and Allen specifically demonstrate how professional learning communities can be the umbrella under which response to intervention and differentiated instruction can function and play off of each other. The authors go on to explain how this approach of using PLCs as the framework for sharing new strategies and understandings, discussing data collected through assessments, and evaluating data against benchmarks will give teachers a stronger support system in making their instructional decisions and ultimately increasing student achievement"-- Provided by publisher.

Comprehensive research-based book which provides secondary school administrators with the information, resources, and guidance necessary to use RTI (Response to intervention) for the benefit of struggling adolescent learners.