Making RTI Work – How Smart Schools are Reforming Education through Schoolwide Response–to– Intervention

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