Finalist: Association of Educational Publishers 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award Accessible language and compelling stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Written by award-winning educators from successful PLC schools, this book demonstrates how to create three tiers of interventions--from basic to intensive--to address student learning gaps. You will understand what a successful program looks like, and the many reproducible forms and activities will help your team understand how to make RTI work in your school. Benefits: 
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<li>Develop a comprehensive understanding of the three tiers of RTI: the core program, the supplemental level, and the intensive level. </li> <li>Learn why RTI is most successful when built on the foundation of a PLC. </li> <li>Discover the role of behavioral interventions and their effects. </li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: What Is Pyramid Response to Intervention? Chapter 2: The Facts About RTI Chapter 3: RTI Models Chapter 4: Laying the Foundation: A Professional Learning Community Chapter 5: Learning CPR Chapter 6: Tier 1: The Core Program Chapter 7: Tier 2: The Supplemental Level Chapter 8: Tier 3: The Intensive Level Chapter 9: The Role of Behavioral Interventions Chapter 10: Meeting Legal Requirements Chapter 11: Putting It All Together Epilogue: A Moral Responsibility

Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don't Learn

Mike Mattos

Austin Buffum

Chris Weber

Reference

Solution Tree

The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community explores the nature of leadership in a PLC. Using insights from a variety of experts who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology offers answers to the most important questions surrounding PLCs.

The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together As a Professional Learning Community

Education & Teaching

Anthony Muhammad

Kenneth C. Williams

Erkens, Cassandra

Eric Twadell

Buffum, Austin

Hinman, Charles

Susan Huff

Lillie G. Jessie

Terri L. Martin

Peter Noonan

Geri Parscale

Jay Westover

Schools & Teaching

The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then, learn how to create a focused RTI model that works. Benefits: 
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<li>Use the four guiding principles to guide thinking and implementation. </li> <li>Shift to a culture of collective responsibility, and build team structures for collaboration. </li> <li>Define essential learnings in a program of concentrated instruction. </li> <li>Develop a system of convergent assessment to identify students for intervention, determine their unique needs, monitor their progress, and revise or extend learning based on their progress. </li>
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Contents: Preface: A Sense of Urgency Chapter 1: A New Way of Thinking Chapter 2: Collective Responsibility: Why Are We Here? Chapter 3: Building Structures for Collaboration Chapter 4: Concentrated Instruction: Where Do We Need to Go? Chapter 5: Convergent Assessment: Where Are We Now? Chapter 6: Creating a System of Interventions Chapter 7: Certain Access: How Do We Get Every Child There? Epilogue: A New Vision of Special Education

Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles (an RTI Book for Professional Learning Communities) (What Principals Need to Know)

Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for K-5 educators, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more. Benefits: 
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<li>Understand the power of RTI to enhance core instruction and provide timely, targeted, and systematic interventions for students in need. </li> <li>Gain effective strategies to differentiate learning, and understand the variety of ways students learn. </li> <li>Incorporate the four Cs--communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking--into curriculum design. </li> <li>Shift from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction to enhance learning. </li> <li>Use formative assessment and preassessment to plan for instruction and extend learning tasks when necessary. </li> <li>Raise the bar for all learners by enhancing rigor and providing learners opportunities to grow. </li>
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Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Shifting to Collaborative Core Instruction Chapter 2: Creating Brain-Friendly Learning Environments Chapter 3: Finding Each Student s Learning Sweet Spot Chapter 4: Developing a Powerful Core Curriculum Chapter 5: Differentiating Instruction Through Pluralized Teaching Strategies Chapter 6: Using Data to Inform Instruction Chapter 7: Building Cognitive Rigor, Depth, and Complexity Epilogue: Embracing the Journey References and Resources Index

Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Elementary (RTI at Work: Implementing Brain-Friendly, Evidence-Based Strategies in a Core Curriculum)

Martha Kaufeldt

Gayle Gregory

Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for grades 6-12, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more. Understand the power of RTI to enhance core instruction and provide timely, targeted, and systematic interventions for students in need: <ul>
<li>Gain effective strategies to differentiate learning, and understand the variety of ways students learn.</li> <li>Incorporate the four Cs -- communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking -- into curriculum design.</li> <li>Shift from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction to enhance learning.</li> <li>Use formative assessment and preassessment to plan for instruction and extend learning tasks when necessary.</li> <li>Raise the bar for all learners by enhancing rigor and providing learners opportunities to grow.</li> </ul>
Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Shifting to Collaborative Core Instruction Chapter 2: Creating Brain-Friendly Learning Environments Chapter 3: Finding Each Student's Learning Sweet Spot Chapter 4: Developing a Powerful Core Curriculum Chapter 5: Differentiating Instruction Through Pluralized Teaching Strategies Chapter 6: Using Data to Inform Instruction Chapter 7: Building Cognitive Rigor, Depth, and Complexity Epilogue: Embracing the Journey References and Resources

Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Secondary (RTI at Work: Collaborative, Multi-Modal Core Instruction Addressing Student Learning Preferences)

Solution Tree Press

Ensure students acquire the academic skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary for long-term success. The authors examine effective academic and behavior supports and offer a step-by-step process for determining, targeting, and observing academic and behavior interventions. You'll discover how to work in collaborative teams using a research-based framework to provide united and simultaneous interventions to students at risk. Benefits: 
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<li>Realize the role behavior plays in students' academic performance. </li> <li>Identify the academic skills and knowledge, academic behaviors, and social behaviors necessary to developing a successful learner. </li> <li>Learn to simultaneously administer academic and behavior interventions to students at risk. </li> <li>Understand the need to make sure students are prepared to work independently and cooperatively and possess the academic skills and creativity to compete in the future job market. </li> <li>Gain intervention strategies to foster lifelong learners. </li>
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Contents: Introduction: The Chicken and the Egg Chapter 1: Building the Foundation Chapter 2: The Five Students and Their Schools Chapter 3: Protocols and Problem Solving Chapter 4: Uniting Core Instruction and Interventions Chapter 5: Uniting Skill and Will With Supplemental Interventions Chapter 6: Uniting Core Instruction and Intensive Remediation Chapter 7: Getting Started and Getting Better

Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions: Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma

Tom Hierck

Response to intervention or RTI (also known as multi-tiered system of supports or MTSS) is the most effective process for ensuring student success, using differentiated instruction to provide the time and support necessary. This comprehensive implementation guide covers every element required to build a successful RTI at Work™ system of support in schools. The authors share step-by-step actions for implementing the essential elements, instructional strategies, and tools needed to support implementation, as well as tips for engaging and supporting educators. Readers who valued the practical knowledge in Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™ (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many, and Mattos) will appreciate a similar style and practicality in Taking Action. This guide will help you incorporate the response to intervention process by allowing you to: <ul>
<li>Understand how RTI at Work™ builds on the PLC at Work™ process. </li> <li>Review the revised RTI at Work™ pyramid and its three RTI tiers.</li> <li>Learn what roles teacher teams, leadership teams, and schoolwide teams play in a multi-tiered intervention structure.</li> <li>Understand the differences among intervention, extension, prevention, and enrichment.</li> <li>Avoid common missteps when implementing RTI (or MTSS).</li> <li>Consider why an achievement gap remains in 21st century education and how the RTI process can close that gap. </li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The RTI at Work™ Pyramid Chapter 2: A Culture of Collective Responsibility Chapter 3: Tier 1 Teacher Team Essential Actions Chapter 4: Tier 1 Schoolwide Essential Actions Chapter 5: Tier 2 Teacher Team Essential Actions Chapter 6: Tier 2 Schoolwide Essential Actions Chapter 7: Tier 3 Schoolwide Essential Actions Chapter 8: Tier 3 Intervention Team Essential Actions

Taking Action: A Handbook for RTI at Work™ (How to Implement Response to Intervention in Your School)

Janet Malone

Highly effective learning-progressive schools share two common elements: they operate as high-functioning professional learning communities (PLCs) with well-implemented RTI structures, and they promote student agency in the learning process. Rely on this resource to help you build a highly effective school where students are engaged in personalized learning experiences and empowered to take ownership of the four critical questions of the PLC at Work™ process. Use this book to create student-centered learning pathways that drive authentic learning and achievement: <ul>
<li>Discover how to use the four critical questions of a PLC to form pathways and progressions for personalized learning in the classroom.</li> <li>Begin the inquiry process through the use of personal reflections provided at the conclusion of each chapter.</li> <li>Understand how the school system has changed over the years and why it is important to address these changes.</li> <li>Explore innovative teaching methods and curriculum-development strategies for achieving different learning outcomes.</li> <li>Learn how schools all over the world have successfully implemented personalized and self-directed learning.</li> </ul>
Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: A Changing Educational Paradigm Chapter 2: Student Agency for Personalized Learning Chapter 3: Systems of Collaboration and Support for Personalized Learning Chapter 4: Teacher-Led Instruction and Release of Responsibility for Essential Disciplinary Learning Outcomes Chapter 5: Co-Constructed Learning for Transdisciplinary Learning Outcomes Chapter 6: Personalized Learning Outcomes Chapter 7: From Theory to Practice in Elementary Schools Chapter 8: From Theory to Practice in Middle Schools Chapter 9: From Theory to Practice in High Schools Chapter 10: The Change Process and Strategic Planning References and Resources

Personalized Learning in a PLC at Work™: Student Agency Through the Four Critical Questions (Develop Innovative PLC- and RTI-Based Personalized Learning)

Timothy S. Stuart

Sascha Heckmann

Get all of your PLC questions answered. Designed as a companion resource to Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.), this powerful quick-reference guidebook is a must-have for teachers and administrators working to build and sustain a PLC. Packed with strategies for building a positive learning environment, you and your team will turn to this invaluable reference tool again and again as questions and complications arise along your PLC journey. Benefits: 
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<li>Receive concise answers to frequently asked questions about becoming a PLC.</li> <li>Address the four critical questions that guide teacher collaboration through the PLC process. </li> <li>Review essential PLC vocabulary. </li> <li>Understand the qualities educators need to cultivate in order to harness a collaborative culture. </li> <li>Outline what students need to learn, and ascertain how to react when students either do or do not learn it. </li> <li>Gain tips on additional PLC books to read to dig deeper into the topics covered in this book. </li>
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Contents: Introduction 1. Laying the Foundation: Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals 2. Building a Collaborative Culture 3. What Do We Want Our Students to Learn? 4. How Will We Know When Our Students Have Learned It? 5. How Will We Respond When Some Students Don't Learn and When Some Do? 6. The District's Role in the PLC Process 7. Consensus and Conflict in a PLC Afterword: It s a Journey, Not a Destination

Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work(TM) (Stronger Relationships for Better Education Leadership)

Richard DuFour

Robert Eaker

Rebecca DuFour

Thomas W. Many

Move away from the way we have always done things and embrace an improved approach to student intervention. At Tier 2 of the RTI at Work(tm) process, interventions do not require hiring additional staff, buying more resources, or extending the school day. Instead, this book offers a step-by-step process for how to use your current time and resources to ensure all students learn at high levels. Use this resource to successfully respond to students when they do not learn: <ul> <li>Receive proven, practical strategies and tools for creating Tier 2 interventions.</li> <li>Discover the foundational principles of effective educational practices.</li> <li>Understand the roles of teacher, leadership, and intervention teams in the response to intervention (RTI) system.</li> <li>Gain tips and best practices for determining student learning levels and how to move student learning forward.</li> <li>Review structures and schedules that build time in the school day to support students who need interventions in an elementary education setting.</li> </ul> Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Making a Case for Doing Things Differently Chapter 2: Using Collaborative Teams for Effective Intervention Chapter 3: Getting to Targeted and Specific Interventions Chapter 4: Using Data to Target Tier 2 Interventions Chapter 5: Implementing Powerful Instructional Supports Chapter 6: Building Time in the Schedule for Additional Support Epilogue

Best Practices at Tier 2: Supplemental Interventions for Additional Student Support, Elementary (An RTI at Work Guide for Implementing Tier 2 Interventions in Elementary Classrooms)

Sharon V. Kramer

Bob Sonju

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