ABSTRACT
Approximately 20% of students will not be successful in general education instruction despite a quality core curriculum and instruction, and will require a more intensive intervention. This chapter discusses how to organize small groups and suggests several interventions. Time is a precious commodity in schools, but more time is not always better. Perhaps the main concern teachers and principals express when they begin implementing Response-to-Intervention (RtI) is the schedule. The schoolwide RtI time offers many advantages. The biggest disadvantage to the schoolwide Power Hour model would be the need for extensive collaboration. Almost every school building universally sees the scheduling and resource logistics as the largest obstacle to Tier 2 and to RtI in general. Many school districts spend a great deal of money on commercially prepared intervention programs because they are usually easier to implement, have technical support, and claim a research base.
