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Professional Development Events : Math.
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The Academic Literacy Community of Practice webinar series provided Regional Comprehensive Center staff an opportunity to engage in an interactive learning process with Center on Instruction staff centered on adolescent literacy best practices used in traditional content-area classrooms in grades 4-12, including differentiated instruction for students with language needs, struggling students, and students with disabilities, and methods for disseminating useful information and resources to SEAs to enhance state-level literacy professional development. In a series of five webinars held from February 2010 to June 2010, implementation of best practices were examined and discussed within an RTI context where applicable. Each webinar is described below, with a link to the archived WebEx file, and PowerPoint presentations are available for download below.
In the first webinar, Enhancing Academic Literay of ELLs in Science and Social Studies Classrooms, held February 9, 2010, David Francis, COI-ELL Strand Director and Director of TIMES, University of Houston, and Leticia Martinez and Colleen Reutebuch of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin, provided an overview of two experimental studies aimed at boosting the academic achievement of older English learners. To access the archived WebEx, click here.
The second webinar, What Social Studies Teachers Can Do to Help All Students Understand (and Like) History, held March 11, 2010, presented by Cynthia Shanahan, Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discussed the research she and colleagues have done with expert historians regarding their reading strategies and practices. The archived WebEx file can be accessed here.
The third webinar, The Content Literacy Continuum: A Tiered Framework for Secondary Schools, held April 30, 2010, presented by Dr. Don Deshler, Director of the Center for Research on Learning (CRL) at the University of Kansas, discussed the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC), a tiered framework of academic supports designed to address the academically diverse needs of adolescent learners in subject matter classes in middle and high school settings. The archived WebEx file can be accessed here.
The fourth webinar, Teaching Academic Language to English Language Learners, held May 11, 2010, presented by Dr. Robin Scarcella, Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine, discussed the challenges that students face when they cannot understand content instruction or participate in classroom discussion because they lack academic language skills. The archived WebEx file can be accessed here.
The fifth webinar, Current and Ongoing Research in Secondary RTI, held June 10, 2010, presented by Dr. Greg Roberts, associate director of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, director of the Vaughn Gross Center, and Director of the Special Education Strand of the Center on Instruction, provided an overview of current and ongoing research in academic literacy, which can be useful when implementing RTI in secondary schools. The archived WebEx file can be accessed here. |
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Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published:
6/15/2010 2:28 PM
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The Center on Instruction held a virtual (web-based) working meeting January 14, 2010, for Regional Comprehensive Center (RCC) staff members, representatives from the Regional Resource Centers (RRCs), and representatives from the eight states (Alaska, California, Idaho, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wyoming, and Vermont) that COI-SpEd has been collaborating with for the past two years on the implementation of RTI. During this working meeting, staff presented research and theory on collaboration supported by actual examples of collaboration collected from schools that COI-SpEd has collaborated with in past and ongoing RTI projects. Participants then engaged in a discussion to develop key recommendations aimed at helping SEAs foster effective collaborative relationships between general ed and special ed at the local level. Available for download are the meeting agenda and the study guide, along with a list of readings recommended to participants prior to the meeting. |
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Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published:
2/1/2010 1:56 PM
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The High School Tiered Interventions Initiative (HSTII), a collaborative effort among the Center on Instruction, the National Center on Response to Intervention, and the National High School Center, conducted a series of webinars around RTI.
The High School Tiered Interventions Initiative, held September 23, 2009, was the first webinar in the series. Presenters Greg Roberts from the Center on Instruction, Tessie Rose from the National Center on Response to Intervention, and Lou Danielson, Joe Harris, and Jenny Scala from the National High School Center provided a description of the work being conducted by this collaborative group, which enhances the understanding of tiered intervention models emerging in high schools across the country. The archived WebEx file and the PowerPoint presentation from the webinar are available for download below.
In The Implementation of Tiered Interventions and RTI in High Schools, held February 11, 2010, Lou Danielson, Greg Roberts, and Jenny Scala shared information on how the essential elements of RTI can be implemented in high schools, what some of the associated challenges and considerations are, and how contextual factors specific to high school settings make RTI implementation increasingly complex and challenging. The PowerPoint presentation, transcript, and set of Q&A are available for download below, and the archived file of the webinar can be accessed here.
High School Response to Intervention: Progress Monitoring, held May 11, 2010, provided an overview of Curriculum-based Measurement (CBM) and how CBM data can be used to monitor student progress. Kristen McMaster also reviewed CBM tools that are available for high schools in reading, mathematics, and the other content areas and how to develop CBM tools for use at the high school level. The archived webinar file and the PowerPoint presentation from the webinar are available for download below.
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Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published:
6/23/2010 1:30 PM
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This conference, held December 10-11, 2008 in Long Beach, California, focused on the National Math Panel Final Report and ways RCCs can help states respond to its recommendations in the key areas of teacher content knowledge and RTI/algebra reading interventions. Experts presenting included Russell Gersten, Sybilla Beckmann, Laurie Sleep, Mark Thames, Hung-Hsi Wu, Ben Clarke, Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Brad Witzel, Jane Coggshall, Lynn Fuchs, Diane Bryant, Chris Dwyer, and Margaret Heritage. PowerPoint presentations from this meeting are available for download below. |
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Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published:
1/2/2009 9:24 AM
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The Center on Instruction hosted an Adolescent Literacy Institute October 15-17, 2008, in New Orleans, for RCC staff and invited state representatives to encourage deeper understanding and effective use of two adolescent literacy products. The meeting included presentations from national experts Joe Torgesen, Barbara Foorman, Greg Roberts, Colleen Reutebuch, and Jade Wexler, as well as small and large group discussion, orientation to the soon-to-be-released Assessments to Guide Adolescent Literacy Instruction, and a training of trainers session for Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers professional development module.
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Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published:
2/6/2009 11:24 AM
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The Center on Instruction Special Education strand met with eight states (Alaska, California, Idaho, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Wyoming) and their Regional Comprehensive Centers representatives in Phoenix March 12-13, 2008, to discuss statewide implementation of RTI. Previously collected information on RTI implementation in these states was reviewed and synthesized. Participants also provided input on future deliverables designed to help other RCCs and states as they implement RTI. Documents from this meeting are available for download below. For more information, please contact christymurray@austin.utexas.edu.
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Sponsored by Center on Instruction
Published:
4/9/2008 2:51 PM
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