Special Education

Designing and Delivering Intensive Interventions: A Teacher's Toolkit

This toolkit provides activities and resources to assist practitioners in designing and delivering intensive interventions in reading and mathematics for K–12 students with significant learning difficulties and disabilities. Read more...

Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics

This publication provides research-based guidance that reflects "best practices" for intensifying instruction in reading and mathematics for students with significant learning difficulties in K-12, including students with disabilities. Read more...

A Synopsis of "The Power of Feedback"

In their article "The Power of Feedback" published in the Review of Education Research (Review of Education Research, 77, 81-112), Hattie and Timperley synthesized the results of 12 meta-analyses of 196 studies that included feedback as an instructional strategy. Read more...

Other Resources (reviewed by COI) to Support Your Work

RTI Implementer Series Module 3: Multi-level Prevention System

This resource provides background information on RTI as well as in-depth information regarding multi-level prevention programs. Read more...

RTI Implementer Series Module 2: Progress Monitoring

This resource provides background knowledge on Response to Intervention (RTI) and in-depth information regarding the use of progress monitoring. Read more...

Using Data to Differentiate Intervention Instruction: A Middle School Example

This resource provides an example of using data to differentiate reading instruction for middle school students. Read more...

Differentiated Instruction—Key to Student Success Module

This resource focuses on differentiated instruction within a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) framework. The module explores how Tier I small group instruction and Tier II intervention are different. Read more...

Closing the Achievement Gap: Collaborating to Support Student Success

This resource from The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin focuses on how educators can collaborate to improve student outcomes and strengthen instruction for students within an RTI framework. Read more...

Differentiated Instruction: Maximizing the Learning of All Students

This online module on differentiated instruction, developed by the IRIS Center for Training Enhancements, provides short video clips, interactive questions and answers, examples of utilizing differentiated instruction in general and special education classes, and links to additional resources. Read more...

Response to Intervention: Intervention Instruction PD Module

This professional development resource, developed jointly by the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts and the Texas Education Agency, provides educators with background and implementation knowledge on RTI. Read more...

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