Making RTI Work
How Smart Schools are Reforming Education
through Schoolwide Response-to-Intervention
by Wayne Sailor
Jossey-Bass © 2009 / paperback / 336 pages / Price: $34.95

Offers best practices for implementing RTI at the school-wide level-to ensure success for all learners

Response-to-Intervention is now mandated at schools across the country. While there are a handful of books offering tips on implementation, schools are still struggling to find the best approaches. This book, from a prominent RTI researcher, explains how the most successful schools using RTI manage the process. Sailor offers best practices for implementing RTI not only at the classroom level, but also at the school-wide and district-wide levels, to ensure no student falls through the cracks and schools fulfill the promise of RTI.

• Offers clear guidance on implementing Response-to-Intervention effectively
• Reveals the framework used by the most successful schools using RTI
• Includes information on applying RTI for behavioral problems as well as academic challenges
• Contains illustrative examples of how the approach is applied at all levels, from individual student to school-wide and district-wide
• Written by a top researcher in the field of Response-to Intervention

What Wayne writes about, in these challenging times, is empowerment, not separate silos of people, resources, and ideas. He writes as well of collaboration and integration of effort, not continued fragmentation and separation of expertise, and for ownership of all students and the engagement of families and communities, especially for very needy students. He offers actual examples of diverse cities come to know how to teach all students through a deliberative planning and implementation process. He writes of the integration of RTI and PBS persuasively.

—Dr. Leonard Burrello, Forum Director

Jossey-Bass © 2009 / paperback
336 pages / Price: $34.95