Navigating the Core Curriculum

In Navigating the Core Curriculum: RTI Strategies to Support Every Learner, author Toby J. Karten asserts that teachers must have responsive instructional interventions in place in order to address students' diverse interests, motivations, and levels of understanding. Using response to intervention (RTI), a multitiered approach to planning learning outcomes and assessing and augmenting students' learning progress, K - 12 teachers can enhance students' core academic knowledge. Karten details appropriate tiers of intervention, instructional strategies, and curriculum resources school staff can apply in their respective school roles to help all students experiences core academic mastery across grades and disciplines.

Readers will:

• Understand how each tier of RTI promotes engagement and learning for all students

• Learn how to design multitiered lessons that honor diverse student populations

• Create opportunities for intervention and enrichment while teaching core knowledge

• Examine how to best use evidence-based practice in K - 12 classrooms

• Access lesson-planning templates, sample lessons, checklists, and other tools to teach and navigate the core curriculum