RTI Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Schools

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a problem-solving approach that can greatly expand the capacity of schools to accommodate diverse learners. This book provides school administrators and teachers with essential techniques, resources, and guidelines to start a comprehensive "Response To Intervention" process in their own schools. Readers will learn how to: help stakeholders "buy-in" to the RTI process, inventory and organize intervention resources; establish a school-based problem-solving team; create research-based and classroom-friendly student intervention plans; set objective goals for student improvement; monitor an chart student progress; apply decision rules to determine when a student who fails to respond to intervention should be referred.