Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Response to Intervention (RTI): The Major Shift in Education 2. Framework for RTI Collaboration and Teamwork 3. Academic Interventions: Literacy and Math 4. Academic Interventions to Improve Learning in All Subject Areas 5. Differentiating Instruction 6. Positive Behavior Intervention and Support: An Overview 7. Antecedent Interventions 8. Alternative Skill Interventions Conclusion Appendix References Index
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Maryln Appelbaum is well-known internationally as an outstanding authority on children, education, and families. She has worked as a teacher, an administrator, and a therapist and has been a consultant throughout the United States. She has written more than 30 how-to books geared exclusively for educators and parents. She has been interviewed on television and radio talks shows and has been quoted in newspapers including USA Today. She owns a seminar training company, Appelbaum Training Institute, with her son, Marty Appelbaum, and they and their speakers train educators all over the world. She has master's degrees in both psychology and education and completed her doctoral studies in both education and psychology. Appelbaum's influence impacts the entire globe with her thoughts for the day that go out to thousands of educators via e-mail daily. Her strategies have been implemented in schools across the world successfully. There is not a day that goes by that someone does not contact her at Appelbaum Training Institute to tell her "thank you." Those "thank you's" come from teachers, administrators, parents, and students whose lives have been impacted by Maryln. Appelbaum's books and her talks are always packed with strategies for success. She is a positive, motivational, dynamic, caring, one-of-a-kind difference maker for the world.