Former teacher and administrator Searle, an educational consultant who teaches at Ashland U. and specializes in curriculum alignment, differentiated instruction, inclusive education, leadership team development, and training teams to implement response to intervention, outlines a problem-solving protocol and interventions for teachers, psychologists, administrators, and student service providers to use to diagnose and intervene in academic and behavioral problems in students at any grade level. She draws on academic and neurological research to delineate five steps: recognizing the problem and student strengths, finding its causes, setting goals, monitoring and charting progress, and planning interventions. After an introductory chapter on executive function, each chapter addresses a specific area of behavior--planning and problem solving, memory skills and math, organization and writing skills, attention and focusing, and impulse control and self-monitoring problems--with case studies guiding readers through the steps. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less