Amanda Vanderheyden Email & Phone Number

Just as all children can respond to instruction (the key is to find the right instruction), all schools can be effective schools. For the last 20 years, Amanda has helped schools use their data to become more effective. She has built, refined, and studied now widely-used tactics including the can’t do/won’t do assessment, academic screening measures, RtI decision models to guide allocation of instructional resources, and classwide math intervention. She has directed and evaluated schoolwide improvement efforts with strong results on student learning. She has also gained an appreciation for how hard it is to get effective tactics used consistently in classrooms. After a career as a district leader and faculty member at LSU and UCSB, Amanda started her own consulting business in 2007. Some of her clients have included: University of Florida’s CEEDAR center; University of Guam; Renaissance Learning; Vanderbilt University’s National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality; State Departments of Ed in IA, PA, MN, and VA; many of the state’s RTI, Regional Resource Centers, and state improvement centers including PA, Guam, OR, VT, UT, AZ, IL, IN, GA, and CA, WI; the US DOE Institute for Education Sciences and National Institutes of Health; and the National Center for Learning Disabilities. She is a frequent speaker and has given more than 100 Keynote addresses. Recent topics include: Active ingredients for system-wide improvements in learning, How to get adults to do the things that work in schools, and How to use data to improve learning outcomes system-wide. During Amanda’s career, technology has become the new frontier for education. Amanda built Intervention Adviser and now Spring Math, bringing together the ingredients of RtI: accurate and efficient assessment as a gateway to instruction, high-yield intervention delivery, and implementation management.She is fully engaged in the ongoing development and enhancement of Spring Math.

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  Louisiana State University

  School Psychology