Learning Supports Coordinator
Whitmore & Hughes Elementary
Who is R&D Instructional Solutions?
Rocket Math is brought to you by R&D Instructional Solutions to offer reasearch-based instructional practices and curriculum materials.
R&D Instructional Solutions was founded by two educators who have had many roles using and supporting effective, research-based instructional practices and curriculum materials. We continue to work in schools with teachers and administrators daily. Our passion is helping teachers acquire and hone the tools and skills necessary to help their students achieve successful outcomes. Rocket Math and the products that support it, are our first products. We are so proud to be able to make them available because THEY WORK! We have new products in development and look forward to bringing them to you very soon. Be on the lookout for new curriculum materials to help you help the students whose lives you touch.
Opportunities for Consulting
Please contact either of us to discuss individualized consulting opportunities.
Randi Saulter, M.S., has taught special education, and grades K-12, providing complete language-based curriculum to students with severe disorders of language, as well as those with low cognition in self-contained special day classes.
She also designed, coordinated and oversaw a school-wide reading program serving every student at the middle school level; was a district-wide program coordinator for special education; and directed schools and districts which utilized only research-validated curriculum. In addition, Randi has been a lecturer at San Francisco State University for the Department of Communicative Disorders, the Department of Special Education and the Department of Elementary Education.
Randi now works as an independent consultant and presenter for school districts around the United States providing model lessons, teacher coaching and in-service training in reading, vocabulary, math, positive behavior management and curriculum-based assessments.
Topics include:
- research-based reading instruction
- reading fluency
- vocabulary development
- math
- math fact fluency
- positive behavior management
- curriculum-based assessments
- IEP writing using curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
- RTI using curriculum-based measures
Contact Randi directly at ItsRandi@aol.com or (614) 579-9184.
Don Crawford, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, Division of Learning and Instructional Leadership and has been an educator for 30 years in all grade levels from K-12 in both regular and special education.
He has trained special education teachers, and provided teacher training workshops around the country on classroom management, reading, spelling, math and curriculum based evaluation. He's also authored curriculum for Rocket Math; is the co-author of Understanding U.S. History; and published scholarly articles in Education and Treatment of Children, Intervention in School and Clinic, and Learning Disability Quarterly.
In addition, Dr. Crawford has served as the director of W. C. Cupe Community Schools; Director of Training for the National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) and Director of Academics for the Baltimore Curriculum Project.
He currently works as the co-editor of Direct Instruction News and as executive director of the Mastery Learning Institute and the Arthur Academies.
Contact Dr. Crawford directly at (888) 488-4854.
