Review: RTI for Secondary Schools, by Marc Barlow

Administrators and teacher leaders who are trying to think big might want to check out RTI for Secondary Schools: Implementing a Schoolwide System, by Marc Barlow (93 pages, available through Amazon for $17).

Most schools have some part of the day at least once a week that they have set aside for something other than classes- study hall, seminar, home room, etc- but that time period is probably not being used to its utmost currently, and this book can point you in a direction on how to use that time period better in your school. Marc Barlow helped to implement a time period at his school called Advisory, and in this book he lays out the step by step process on how and why to implement a similar period in your school.

Now, being just a lowly teacher who has been unable to even get his fellow teachers to act as a professional learning community, I am not able to implement this sort of program at my school- but we have a similar period of time in my school that currently is not being fully utilized, and even though I'm not going to make it into an Advisory period, I am going to push to reform it and improve it so that our students and our school can gain more from this time period.

RTI for Secondary Schools will lay out a step-by-step process to implement an Advisory period; but it will also inspire you to do so. Check out the book at amazon.com today-