Sharon V. Kramer

Support struggling students with powerful RTI (or MTSS) Tier 2 instruction and intervention strategies. A companion to Best Practices at Tier 1, this book guides educators through the implementation of Tier 2 of response to intervention in secondary schools.

Learn how to provide high-quality Tier 2 interventions to elementary students—without hiring additional staff or extending the school day. This RTI at Work resource contains best practices educators can use to provide differentiated instruction as part of a multitiered system of support (MTSS).

Develop the know-how to work as a collaborative team to overcome barriers and challenges in priority schools. This comprehensive anthology offers clear steps you can take to significantly improve underperforming schools.

Discover how to build a professional learning community that fosters collaboration and collective responsibility to create lasting change and improve student learning schoolwide.

Discover how to carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid.

Learn how U.S. Grant High School changed from the “dropout factory” to an engine of hope for the students it serves, and how its success can be replicated anywhere.

Closing achievement gaps is an urgent goal for all schools, not just priority schools. The authors show that remediation is not the answer. Instead, they offer educational strategies for acceleration that will level up learning for all students, as well as a framework for implementing accelerated learning schoolwide.

We know the pandemic has significantly affected learning results for students. However, there are ways of working differently in schools that will overcome these deficits and prove that our work in schools can be more powerful than a pandemic! A new mindset is needed to achieve new results.

During this two-day workshop, Sharon Kramer shares a clear path to continuous improvement. Teachers and administrators will discover how to work together as a team of leaders to create systematic processes and implement best practices that ensure the learning of every student.

Many articles, blogs, books, podcasts, and webinars have been written and shared for the purpose of reiterating the need to close student achievement gaps. And yet, the process and progress in closing the gaps has been out of reach.