Screening students at risk for academic failure and attempting interventions before referring them to special education is a critical district function. This handy guide helps administrators understand and implement the prereferral process by exploring key concepts and offering step-by-step strategies for creating an effective program. Plus, Implementing the Prereferral Process provides: an outline of each step of the prereferral process; prereferral team case studies to show you how principles and strategies apply to real-life situations; clear-cut explanations of how the process is critical to the goals of IDEA and NCLB; a plan for combatting unnecessary referrals - including overidentification of minority students and misidentification of disabling conditions; and much more. You also find out how the IDEA and NCLB impact prereferrals - so you know what the laws require. And, you get sample interventions and data-collection strategies for reading, writing, math and social interventions, along with outlines for gathering parents' input and school baseline data.