Response to Intervention and Continuous School Improvement How to Design, Implement, Monitor, and Evaluate a Schoolwide Prevention System

Experts Bernhardt and Hébert's latest book demonstrates strategies to ensure your entire staff works together to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system with integrity and fidelity. Each step in this important resource is designed to help administrators, teachers, and other educators improve the learning of every student by implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) as part of a continuous school improvement process. This second edition spotlights the "Five Stages of RtI Implementation" and is complemented by the robust online RtI Implementation Guide, which includes more than 30 downloadable templates, examples, and other files to help schools start their journey of establishing a successful system. By applying the authors' insightful guidance in Response to Intervention (RtI) and Continuous School Improvement (CSI), you'll be able to redesign your general and special education programs to put your school on a path toward improvement!

Contents ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RtI AND CSI: RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION AND CONTINUOUS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT RtI and CSI Stages of Implementation Stage 1: Study and Commit Stage 2: Plan Stage 3: Build Capacity Stage 4: Implement and Monitor Stage 5: Continuously Improve Book Study Questions Application Opportunities RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: STUDY AND COMMIT Core Principles of RtI Intent of RtI Deficit Versus Risk Model Components of RtI Integrity and Fidelity of Implementation Relationship of RtI to Special Education Book Study Questions Application Opportunities CONTINUOUS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT: STUDY AND COMMIT Continuous School Improvement Framework Where Are We Now? Relationship of RtI to CSI Who Are We? How Do We Do Business? How Are Our Students Doing? What Are Our Processes? Looking Across the Multiple Measures of Data How Did We Get to Where We Are? Where Do We Want to Be? How Are We Going to Get to Where We Want to Be? Is What We Are Doing Making a Difference? Book Study Questions Application Opportunities PLANNING WITH THE RTI IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE Planning with the RtI Implementation Guide Components of the System of Responsive Interventions Multi-Level Prevention System Roles and Responsibilities Referral Processes and Documentation Other RtI Related Items for Which to Plan Applying RtI to Behavior Book Study Questions Application Opportunities BUILD CAPACITY Build Capacity Leaders and Leadership Structures Sharing with Staff Professional Learning Instructional Coherence Parent Involvement Book Study Questions Application Opportunities IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR Instructional Design for Primary Prevention Instructional Design for Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Data Teams for RtI Documentation Monitoring Implementation Book Study Questions Application Opportunities RtI IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING TIMELINE RtI Implementation and Monitoring Timeline PATH Process Book Study Questions Application Opportunities CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE Continuous School Improvement and Evaluation Is RtI Being Implemented with Integrity and Fidelity? Is Acceptable Progress Being Made? What is the Impact of RtI Implementation? Book Study Questions Application Opportunities SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Stages of Implementation What RtI Is Not Recommendations Book Study Questions Application Opportunities GLOSSARY REFERENCES AND RESOURCES INDEX

Victoria L. Bernhardt, Ph.D., is Executive Director of Education for the Future Initiative, a not-for-profit organization located at California State University, Chico, California, whose mission is to build the capacity of all learning organizations at all levels to gather, analyze, and use data to continuously improve learning for all students. She is also a Professor (currently on leave) in the College of Communication and Education, at California State University, USA. Connie L. Hébert, M.S. Ed., is an experienced educator and consultant in the field of special education, and a K-12 Intervention Consultant for the Jackson R2 School District in Missouri, USA.