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This practical, ready-to-use resource gives teachers and administrators the tools to successfully implement RTI or strengthen an existing program to target students' specific needs. Response to Intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. Three expert authors explore this multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), offering over one hundred research-based, instructional techniques and interventions for use in diverse settings, advice on creating personal and positive learning environments, information on co-teaching, and approaches to purposeful grouping. Included in the book and as digital downloads are easy-to-use customizable forms to streamline assessment, implementation, and documentation. Also included is an extensive list of references and resources for further exploration.

"RTI in Middle School Classrooms" provides practical, research-based instructional techniques and interventions--geared especially to middle school teachers and administrators--that target and address specific needs of individual students. Response to intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. In middle school, RTI brings unique advantages, benefits, and challenges. The book includes examples of RTI strategies in diverse settings; detailed information on how co-teaching dovetails with RTI; and customizable digital templates to streamline assessment, implementation, and documentation. Digital content includes all of the book's customizable forms and a PDF presentation for professional development.

What is Response to Intervention (RTI) and how can it benefit your school? Find out in "RTI Success", an all-in-one resource that provides information on this innovative model as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Despite ongoing federal initiatives meant to increase the profile and prevalence of RTI in the nation's schools, many educators continue to have questions about the framework. What are the three tiers of intervention? How do screening and progress monitoring work? Is there funding available? What ultimate benefit can Response to Intervention provide? Features of the book include: (1) 34 reproducible forms for streamlined implementation, progress monitoring, and tier movement; (2) CD-ROM with staff development tools, including a PowerPoint presentation, and all the reproducible forms in the book; (3) Step-by-step guidelines for implementing RTI; (4) 100+ teacher-friendly, research-based strategies for targeting specific skill deficits; (5) "What to Try When" charts that help determine instruction techniques; (6) Tools for differentiating instruction to meet diverse classroom needs; (7) Vignettes and school profiles demonstrating RTI practices in diverse settings; and (8) Ready-to-use assessments and educational profiles for documentation. Who will benefit from "RTI Success"? Administrators will enjoy its detailed information on implementing the model at the school- or district-wide levels. Educators in the regular classroom can use its plentiful instructional strategies to address learners' specific difficulties. Special educators and classroom aides can utilize the book in support of screening, progress monitoring, and early intervention methods. Students, rather than struggle for long periods, can have unique needs assessed and met before academic challenges lead to chronic failure. Response to Intervention clearly has the potential to transform how schools work. What has been less obvious to many is how to implement the framework and effectively utilize intervention strategies in the classroom. "RTI Success", written by three experienced practitioners in the field, provides this how-to information that educators have been asking for.

Forty-seven articles comprise this reader designed for beginning college students and instructors in an introductory anthropology course. Original contributions from both anthropologists and non-anthropologists are reprinted. The readings, drawn primarily from the popular press but including some of the discipline's "classical" articles, are designed to give students a basic understanding of the general, introductory concepts of anthropology. The selected and organized materials reflect the thoughts described in the first article on perspective of cultural relativism and a five part model consisting of comparison, holism, systems and process, emics and etics, and the case study. Nine broad anthropological concept areas presented are: (1) stones and bones, the evidence of human evolution; (2) ethology and human nature; (3) human diversity; (4) the organization of society and the evolution of social forms; (5) understanding others and ourselves and fieldwork in cultural anthropology; (6) human groups in their environmental contexts; (7) culture and identity; (8) the cultural structuring of experience, culture, communication, and belief systems; and (9) some consequences of the expansion of mass society. A teacher's guide, containing basic reference and testing materials for each of the 47 readings, accompanies the book of readings. (Author/JR)

Presents information on a study which described how the U.S. government role in bilingual education developed through legislation and litigation. Role of the U.S. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in getting a national agenda for the education of children who have limited proficiency in English; Legislative history of federal bilingual policy; Problems facing the non-English speakers.