As a result of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation and the reauthorization of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) 2004, Response to Intervention (RTI) is now a mandated process for documenting the existence or nonexistence of a learning disability. For educators new to the RTI approach, this text presents an overview of key concepts with guidelines for accountability practices that benefit students in inclusive classrooms. Presenting the three tiers of RTI techniques, the authors demonstrate how general and special education teachers can use research-based interventions to individualize instruction, monitor individual student progress, and implement strategies to meet the specific needs of all students. Response to Intervention assists educators with the basic and necessary steps to provide students with a Fair and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE), and includes: (1) Vignettes, examples, and forms based on the problem-solving and standards-based approaches to RTI; (2) A chapter illustrating how RTI techniques benefit students who are economically underprivileged and/or culturally and linguistically diverse and (3) A chapter devoted to Frequently Asked Questions. The text also includes charts and reproducibles for use as educators implement programs to document how individual students respond to specific educational interventions. Following an open letter to educators as preface, acknowledgments, authors' and contributors' information, the book contains the following five chapters: (1) Response To Intervention; (2) Implementation of a Standard Treatment Protocol RTI; (3) Implementation of a Problem Solving RTI; (4) Implementing RTI to Meet the Needs of All Learners and (5) Will RTI Work? On-going Questions. The following appendices are included: (1) Appendix A. RTI Needs Assessment; (2) Appendix B. The Georgia Pyramid of Intervention; (3) Appendix C. RTI Summary Forms; (4) Appendix D. Where Do General Educators Find the Time to Do RTI?; (5) Appendix E. Resources for RTI Interventions and (6) Appendix F. Using Response to Intervention for Inappropriate Behaviors. An index is included. [Published in Association with A Joint Publication With the Council for Exceptional Children.]