Education Audio Conferences

How does an
Audio Conference work?

Audio Conference registrants will receive an e-mail a few days before the event with complete instructions on how to participate. You'll be given a unique Event I.D. and PIN that entitles you to a single phone-line connection to access the audio portion of the event. The instructions also will include steps to retrieve the speaker's hand-outs.

Train your entire team
for one low rate!

LRP's Audio Conferences are the perfect way to train both new and seasoned staff. All you need is a conference room with a speakerphone and invite as many others as you'd like.

May 20, 2010 • 12 - 1:30 p.m. ET
Successful RTI Implementation:
Prevent, Identify and Fix False Starts and Other Errors
Presented by Amanda VanDerHeyden, Ph.D.

From universal screening to highly specialized individual intervention, RTI involves a series of assessments and interventions with data interpretation at each step - presenting many opportunities for error. In this audio conference, Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden will show you how to evaluate and ensure the technical adequacy of your RTI implementation so you provide valid, data-based decisions and improved general education outcomes.

Relying on years as an RTI trainer and researcher, Dr. VanDerHeyden will emphasize the importance of RTI implementation integrity and identify the most common pitfalls that negatively impact your results and often cause "false starts" that send you and your staff back to the RTI drawing board. You’ll learn how to identify when implementation has gone awry and how to get back on track to ensure that the implementation effort brings desired results at the lowest cost.

Get solutions to these common implementation challenges:

"We went to scale too fast and now realize that our teams need professional development and support for effective implementation."

"Our model was too loosely defined. We allowed schools and teams to select
their own screening tools, decision rules, interventions, and RTI criteria.
Now there is no consistency between sites, effects are variable,
and supporting implementation is a nightmare."

"We did not provide in-the-classroom support for implementers, and
our implementation effort is not returning solid results."

"We are struggling with managing all the interventions we need to run."

"It takes us too long to reach decisions about RTI for students,
causing strain to parents and teachers."

"We over-emphasized intervention selection and under-emphasized
intervention management."

"We’re not sure if RTI has helped our students or not."

"RTI was all the rage in our district two years ago, but now people seem
tired of it and overwhelmed with all the work it requires."

Plus, time for Q&A gives you the chance to ask your specific questions.

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Cost: $250 per site when you register by May 12, $270 thereafter. You can have as many colleagues as you'd like at your site.

Who should attend?

        •    Special education directors

        •    RTI coordinators

        •    Reading directors

        •    Directors of curriculum and instruction

        •    Principals and assistant principals

        •    General and special education teachers

        •    School psychologists

        •    Parents

        •    School attorneys

        •    Superintendents and assistant superintendents

Meet the Speaker(s)

Amanda M. VanDerHeyden, Ph.D., is a private consultant and researcher who has worked as a researcher, consultant and national trainer in a number of school districts. She has published more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters related to RTI. In 2006, she was named to a National Center for Learning Disabilities advisory panel to provide guidance related to RTI. She is associate editor of School Psychology Review, serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including School Psychology Quarterly and Journal of Early Intervention, and recently co-authored a book on RTI essentials (with Dr. Matthew Burns) and co-edited an RTI handbook. Dr. VanDerHeyden received the 2006 Lightner Witmer Early Career Contributions Award from the APA for her scholarship on early intervention, RTI and models of data-based decision making.

Can't Make the Date ?

This Audio Conference will be recorded and CDs will be available for purchase. Reserve your CD now or call toll-free 1-800-341-7874.

Questions?

Please call toll-free 1-800-727-1227.

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