RTI: From Soup to Nuts 

with Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden

Friday April 8, 2022

8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Virtual Only

This virtual workshop will provide a brief overview of MTSS logic and the basics of high-quality core instruction as a foundation; completing universal screening with classwide intervention when needed; intensified instruction - how to do it and how to support implementation; evaluating RTI (including fidelity) and determining special education eligibility.  Case examples will be utilized throughout.

This workshop is appropriate for school based administrators, general and special education teachers and interventionists involved with MTSS, EST members, school psychologists, and others involved in the EPT.  

About Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden

Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden is a policy adviser and thought leader who actively conducts research focused on improving learning outcomes for students.  In addition to publishing nine books and over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, she regularly delivers webinar, panel, and keynote sessions, including addresses to state school psychology associations and state departments of education in 35 states, Singapore, and China.  

She has also served as a standing panel member for NIH, IES at the U.S. Department of Education, an adviser and reviewer for NCII, USAID, the IRIS center, the Dyslexia Foundation, and numerous state departments of education.  Dr. VanDerHeyden has also served on a number of boards, including the RTI Advisory Board for the National Center for Learning Disabilities and SEDL, one of 10 regional laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Education (since merged with the American Institutes for Research).

Dr. VanDerHeyden has authored a number of policy guides and position statements, and delivered testimony on the use of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) MTSS and Response to Intervention (RTI) to identify students for special education.  She is credited with developing models of academic screening that are widely used in schools, conducting innovative research in mathematics screening and progress monitoring using mastery measurement, and the creation of SpringMath. Dr. VanDerHeyden is President of Education Research & Consulting in Fairhope, Alabama, and has a faculty affiliation with the Wheelock College of Education at Boston University.