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Dr. Liz Whitten, professor, published the book: RTI Success: Proven Tools and Strategies for Schools and Classrooms (Free Spirit Press). Response to Intervention is an innovative instructional method that enables educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. The book includes step-by-step guidelines for implementing RTI in schools and provides hundreds of pragmatic, research-based instructional strategies for classroom teachers to target specific skill deficits in their students. Vignettes and school profiles demonstrate RTI techniques in diverse settings, and reproducible forms streamline assessment and documentation procedures.
The Department of Special Education and Literacy Studies participated in the second annual WMU Day at the Capitol which featured dozens of WMU programs and projects.
Congratulations to senior Phoenicia Green honored as a 2009 Presidential Scholar, the highest academic award that WMU can bestow to an undergraduate. Phoenicia was selected by faculty members as the most outstanding senior in the program. Selection is based on the students' general academic excellence, academic and/or artistic excellence in their majors, and intellectual and/or artistic promise.
