A companion to Best Practices at Tier 1, this guide provides secondary educators with fundamental principles, practices, and tools for implementing effective Tier 2 intervention strategies.

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.

Response to intervention (RTI) 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 WorkTM program 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 WorkTM (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: Understand how RTI at WorkTM builds on the PLC at WorkTM process. Review the revised RTI at WorkTM pyramid and its three RTI tiers. Learn what roles teacher teams, leadership teams, and schoolwide teams play in a multi-tiered intervention structure. Understand the differences among intervention, extension, prevention, and enrichment. Avoid common missteps when implementing RTI (or MTSS). Consider why an achievement gap remains in 21st century education and how the RTI process can close that gap.

Confidently support the students who struggle most. Written for secondary educators, this practical resource details how to provide intensive interventions at Tier 3 of the RTI at Work(tm) process. Rely on the book's toolkit of best practices and easy-to-use strategies to help you and your team drive sustainable learning improvement and success at all secondary grade levels across the curriculum. Use this resource to meet the needs of students who have fallen the furthest behind in the classroom: Discover fundamental practices and tools to support students through a schoolwide, collaborative RTI at Work process. Understand the role of teams, specifically the leadership and intervention teams, in effectively implementing the RTI at Work process at Tier 3. Learn how to design and deliver assessments and instruction while utilizing best practices of a multitiered system of support (MTSS). Examine the importance of teaching essential academic and social behaviors, and obtain strategies for delivering intensive behavior interventions at Tier 3. Gain activities and tools to apply in the classroom and further student learning. Contents:Introduction Chapter 1: The Purpose and Power of Tier 3 Intensive Interventions Chapter 2: The Need for Collective Commitment and Responsibility Chapter 3: Collaborative Team Structures at Tier 3 Chapter 4: Tier 3 Design to Ensure High Levels of Learning Chapter 5: Convergent Assessment at Tier 3 Chapter 6: Behavior Supports at Tier 3 Chapter 7: Academic Instruction at Tier 3 Chapter 8: Personalized Learning for Teams Epilogue: Final Thoughts Appendix: Resources and Tools References and Resources Index

A “strategy bank” for secondary teachers This book offers a bank of proven RTI strategies for Grades 6–12, including easy-to-implement interventions and sample lessons that improve achievement for all students.

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.