Chris Weber

Chris Weber, EdD, is an educator, school leader, and nationally recognized expert in Response to Intervention (RTI), behavior, mathematics, and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). He has served as a teacher at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and as a site and district administrator, including principal and assistant superintendent roles in California and Chicago, where he helped develop RTI systems that significantly raised student achievement in historically underperforming groups. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and former U.S. Air Force pilot, he later earned a master’s degree from California State University San Marcos and a doctorate in education from the University of California, with his EdD cited as from UCLA.

Weber is the coauthor of RTI Is a Verb and Positive Behaviors Start With Positive Mindsets: Twenty-Eight Actions to Motivate Students and Boost Achievement, both written with Tom Hierck. He is also a best-selling author of several influential RTI and behavior titles, including Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, PLCs, and How to Respond When Students Don’t Learn, Pyramid of Behavior Interventions: 7 Keys to a Positive Learning Environment, Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles, RTI in the Early Grades: Intervention Strategies for Mathematics, Literacy, Behavior, and Fine-Motor Challenges, and *Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum: An