In this 90-minute, recorded audio conference, your general and special educators will come to understand and appreciate what they can do for each other -- and for all children -- by working together and coordinating instructional strategies within the Response-to-Intervention model.

Dr. Hartwig will give your general and special educators the tools they need to better serve struggling learners, by explaining:

• Important changes in how children are taught, how teachers are prepared, how children are identified for special education and how research is used to inform instruction and behavior
• Why IEP teams must shift the focus from who is eligible to concerns about providing effective instruction
• Special and general education problem-solving models and how they can be unified to create an even more seamless model
• How to accomplish large-scale changes in the way we serve children with disabilities by showing all stakeholders a truth that influences their feelings, rather than just giving them an analysis that alters their thinking
• How to talk about failures - not as an excuse, but as a method to discourage attitudes of self-doubt and denial