Implementing RtI With Gifted Students: Service Models, Trends, and Issues

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Implementing RtI With Gifted Students shares how RtI can fit within the framework of gifted education programming models. This edited book will serve as a reference guide for those interested in learning more about RtI and how it might be effectively implemented to meet the needs of all gifted students. Chapters contributed by top gifted education experts focus on topics including tiered supports and services for gifted learners; screening, assessment, and progress monitoring; evidence-based practices; popular gifted education models that fit within a tiered framework; and diversity. Additional resources for schools include a self-assessment needs survey; guidelines for planning; forms, templates, and timelines for getting started; and rubrics for reviewing implementation fidelity and progress.

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Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Research Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She directed Project U-STARS~PLUS (Using Science, Talents and Abilities to Recognize Students), a Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Program and project.

Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D., is professor emerita of the Department of Educational Psychology at Baylor University.