In Program Two go in -depth into the problem solving process that helps Ra-Shaan with her reading troubles. Experience the team approach as teachers, specialists, Ra-Shaan, and her mother meet and come up with innovative strategies to use both in the classroom and at home to help her achieve success. Then see how educators can use online resources and an expert pool of teachers to monitor progress and ensure that strategies help all their students overcome learning gaps.

(ASCD DVD, 2010) Two 45-minute DVDs, each with a professional development program.

What Every School Leader Needs To Know About RTI
These days, Response to Intervention (RTI) is everywhere, and there are lots of claims about what RTI is and how to do it. At last, here’s a book that helps you cut through the quackery and ensure that your approach to RTI represents the very best of what is known about assessment, instruction, and intervention. Author Margaret Searle provides you with a school-proven RTI framework and puts you on a foundation of sound advice, including

• Why RTI doesn’t mean starting over from scratch on your school improvement effort.
• How to ensure your approach to RTI is student-centered.
• What RTI looks like when done well.
• How to minimize the overuse of costly Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions.

As Searle guides you through the steps of setting up multiple assessments, analyzing performance data, and responding to learning problems with a three-tier intervention, she imparts countless tips along the way, including

• Six steps to take when you don’t know why students aren’t learning.
• Four coordinator roles that are required for successful RTI implementation.
• Three types of assessment tools you need in a quality RTI approach.
• Six areas of prevention every RTI approach should include.

(ASCD book, 2010) 7" x 9", 200 pages.

Also available as an E-Book!

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
Based upon practices of experts and scientifically-based research, this book offers more than 250 practical strategies for assisting educators as they meet the challenge of tackling difficult academic and behavioral problems.  You will be taken through a step-by-step process for diagnosing root causes and prescribing powerful interventions based on using a specific problem-solving procedure. 

The purpose of this book is to provide…

1. ways to organize a problem-solving team
2. ideas for including parents as true partners in the problem-solving process
3. suggestions for helping students assume responsibility for solving their own problems
4. a strategy for unraveling symptoms to identify the root causes
5. practice exercises for diagnosing and goal setting
6. practical ideas for universal interventions that can benefit every type of learner in the classroom
7. case studies tracking progress for individual students through the problem-solving system -- from diagnosis of the cause to data collection which provides evidence of their success

This book is a rich resource that bridges the gap between research and practice to help you maximize the use of time and personnel.  This proven problem-solving method unites students, faculty and parents in a partnership that enables each person to solve tough problems.

Treasure Chest
Standards-Based Instruction for All Learners
This easy-to-read book written by Margaret Searle and published by the Ohio Department of Education is rich with practical ideas on how to improve student achievement by putting four key systemic concepts into place:

1. Assessment mapping
2. Differentiated unit designs
3. Collaborative scheduling and delivery systems to help general education and special education teachers work together smoothly
4. Developing an Intervention Assistance Team that does more than test, label and dispatch kids

The book can be downloaded at no charge from our Downloads page or from the Ohio Department of Education Website:

http://www.ode.state.oh.us/
(Once on this site, type the words “Treasure chest” into the search box and download the PDF file.)

Differentiated Instruction For Successful Inclusion
This 16.5 hours of streaming video was developed to put the Treasure Chest book in video form.  The video was designed to give both teachers and administrators ideas and classroom demonstrations on how to deliver differentiated instruction to both general education and special needs students K-12. 

Learn how to:

1. Do assessment mapping with essential understandings and authentic assessments
2. Create standards-based lessons
3. Design differentiated units
4. Use high impact strategies
5. Co-plan and co-teach lessons
6. Get the most from an Intervention Assistance Team

Featured presenters: Jay McTighe, Rick Stiggins, David Hyerle, Margaret Searle and Cathy Hamilton.

http://www.educationalimpact.com