Taking Action: A Handbook for RTI at Work™ (How to Implement Response to Intervention in Your School)

As a classroom teacher in a professional learning community for over 15 years, one of the steps that I've seen my school struggle to take time-and-again is to create meaningful and effective SYSTEMS of intervention. We've always had an intervention block, but we've never used that time to systematically address all of the unique needs of struggling students in our classrooms. Instead, we've asked classroom teachers and collaborative teams to lead all interventions, whether they were academic, social or behavioral.Sound familiar?If so, you will want to pick up Taking Action. The authors -- who are some of the leading experts on Response to Intervention in the nation -- detail the specific "essential actions" that need to be taken by three different groups of people in any school (collaborative teams, school leadership teams, and school intervention teams) in order for intervention to be systematic and effective.The steps are logical. The details are sound. The suggestions are practical.Read it now. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Taking Action is an amazing resource for our Response to Intervention Work in our district! Taking Action is easy to read, well-organized, and provides tools (reproducibles) to help teams work through everything from building a school leadership team to determining essential standards, to creating and analyzing flexible schedules for in-school intervention time. Each chapter offers sequenced Action Steps for teachers and schoolwide teams as well as sections to help the team understand the “Here’s Why” and “Here’s How”. One of my favorite parts of the book are the Helpful Tools and Coaching Tips sections in each chapter which provides connections to the Professional Learning Communities work and the book Learning by Doing, 3rd Edition (which I also love and use frequently). I have nothing but high praise for Taking Action and the beautiful sequence and easy to follow chapters and action steps that teachers and school teams can use! We are already seeing the benefits of the content of Taking Action as we continue to build systems of support for students! I have purchased this book both digitally and in standard book form, and it was well worth the investment as we work to move forward with intervention in our schools and district.

This handbook is a must read for educators working to ensure that all students are learning! It is a great companion to Simplifying Response to Intervention, and in this new resource, these authors have further clarified this important work, including the who, what and why needed to move the RtI framework to action. The practical tools and resources are usable for teachers and leaders, and have assisted my district in building systems of support for our students, leading to learning gain increases for our most at risk learners in 80% of our elementary schools.

The best part of ordering this book through Amazon is the saving the difference in their cost and the cost when purchased directly from Solution Tree. The authors have developed a user-friendly handbook that will certainly support schools' effective implementation of RTI. We're currently using it at the district level to support building leaders as they guide and grow teachers' professional practice to ensure learning at high levels for ALL students.

This book is a tremendous resource for schools and districts, whether you are just beginning the RTI process or have been immersed in it for a while. The book addresses both the technical side of RTI and the cultural side of implementing a new way of doing business. The authors are clearly about kids, ALL kids, and putting practices and systems in place to ensure they learn at high levels.

For anyone who is looking to implement a highly effective RTI system into their school, this is the book! Even if you have already implemented this process, this book is a great refresher and gets back to why it is so important to ensure high levels of learning for ALL kids. This book is highly recommended, the steps are practical, easy to read and ultimately kids deserve it!

This book is appropriately titled! Throughout "Taking Action," authors Buffum, Mattos, and Malone deliver a solid framework and common sense actions that empower districts, schools, and teams as they establish an effective system of support for all students. Districts and schools who are serious about helping students should absolutely use this resource to bring clarity and focus to their work!

This is an amazing how to meet and move students along the learning continuum

Excellent book that provides step by step process. If one uses the action steps as a way to divide reading and doing aspects the book also provides a great template for working with your leadership team. A book that needs to be applied not simply read. Does a great job of setting up foundation as well as answering PLC questions #3 and #4.