Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden
In addition to publishing ten books and over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, she regularly delivers webinar, panel and keynote sessions, including addresses to state school psychology associations and state departments of education in 36 states, Singapore, China, Portugal, and Australia.
She has also served as a panel member for NIH, standing panel member for IES at the U.S. Department of Education, an adviser and reviewer for NCII, USAID, the IRIS center, the Dyslexia Foundation, and numerous state departments of education. Dr. VanDerHeyden has served on a number of boards, including the RTI Advisory Board for the National Center for Learning Disabilities and SEDL, one of 10 regional laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Education (since merged with the American Institutes for Research).
Dr. VanDerHeyden has authored a number of policy guides and position statements and delivered testimony on the use of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) MTSS and Response to Intervention (RTI) to identify students for special education. She is President of Education Research & Consulting in Daphne, Alabama, and has a faculty affiliation with the Wheelock College of Education at Boston University.
Discover how SpringMath supports Math MTSS and drives math mastery.
Areas of expertise
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Math intervention
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Screening and assessment
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RTI/MTSS
Biography
Research
Books
- The RTI Approach to Evaluating Learning Disabilities, Second Edition
- Supporting Math MTSS through SpringMath. Your guide to driving math mastery.
Downloads and assets
- Image: Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden headshot
- Videos: Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden shares the story of SpringMath and answers your commonly asked questions
Articles
- It's amazing how fragile good practices are: Enabling effective intervention implementation by Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden, SpringMath author
- Rigorous data collection can mean a lot of things, but requires frequent and targeted assessment by Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden, SpringMath author
Webinars & podcasts
- Video: Improving Math Learning Outcomes: What Really Works, Education Week's K-12 Essentials Forum Math Foundations for All
- Podcast: Math Mastery for Every Single Student
- Video: Data Behind SpringMath
- Video: "Preventing Siloed Implementation" - Character Strong's Not Your Typical MTSS Summit
- Podcast: The Science of Math with Amanda VanDerHeyden
Media coverage
- Four Steps to Implement RTI Correctly, Education Week
- Keeping Special Ed in Proportion, Education Week
- Implementing RTI in Mathematics, RTI Action Network
- New math initiative helps local students succeed, WILX 10
Connect with Dr. Amanda online
Previous events
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Pragmatic How-to for Math Intervention, STRAIGHT TALK by the Experts
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Math MTSS, OK RTI Session
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Let's Do What Works — Keynote, IPTC 2016