Reaching Every Learner: Proven Strategies to Teach Students With Disabilities in Tiers 1-3 (A three-tiered framework for supporting students with disabilities)

by Cara Shores

Overview

Author Cara Shores provides a three-tiered instructional framework that helps educators establish integral baselines of performance for students, offering strategies for assessment, intervention, and remediation to ensure student growth. This book guides educators with step-by-step tools and methods for differentiated instruction and lesson planning, addressing the diverse learning needs of all students.

K–12 special education and general education teachers and instructional coaches can use this book to:

• Increase students’ learning progression through instruction, intervention, and remediation
• Explore research-proven models and methods of instruction that promote standards mastery for students with disabilities
• Better assess and collect data on students’ learning to measure progress
• Incorporate standards mastery into individualized education program goals
• Implement highly effective instruction in all settings to maximize learning for students with disabilities

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding the Tiered Instructional Framework
Chapter 2: Exploring Tier 1 Instruction Specially Designed for Students With Disabilities
Chapter 3: Discovering Why We Always Begin With Data
Chapter 4: Focusing on Instruction Through Essential Standards and Learning Progressions
Chapter 5: Choosing and Providing Appropriate Supports
Chapter 6: Co-Teaching for Greatest Impact
Chapter 7: Differentiating Instruction Through Tiered Assignments
Chapter 8: Looking at the Structure for Tiers 2 and 3 for Students With Disabilities
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798893740233
Publisher:	Solution Tree Press
Publication date:	06/11/2025
Edition description:	Special Needs
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“I can think of no task more important in the education profession than properly educating a student with disabilities. Cara Shores has provided a blueprint for excellence in instruction at the classroom level.”

—Anthony Muhammad / Educational consultant and author

“Reaching Every Learner is the book every educator needs right now. It’s a roadmap for designing inclusive, high-impact instruction within a tiered system.”

—Tim Solley / Educational consultant

“Reaching Every Learner is must-read resource containing all of the protocols and processes for educators of all grade levels implementing tiered instruction and supports.”

—Julie A. Taylor / Educational consultant and author