Improving teaching conditions is essential for states and districts to address equitable access to effective teaching within MTSS. This module provides five hours of material, including hands-on activities, which can be adapted and customized to your state or district context and needs.
Training Modules
This document reports on a three-year collaboration among the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Education Northwest, and the Council of Chief State School Officers
(CCSSO) English Language Learner State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (ELL SCASS). It provides considerations for evaluating teachers of English learners.
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In this video, Mary Little, Professor and Program Coordinator of the Department of Child, Family, and Community Services at the University of Central Florida discusses why data and data-based decision making is such a critical part of instruction and intervention.
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Few evidence-based resources exist for supporting elementary and secondary students who require intensive intervention—typically Tier 3 within a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS).
Guides/Publications
The purpose of this document is to provide content-specific examples of how to structure educator-level and/or systems-level coaching as a mechanism to ensure ongoing professional learning to support tiered intervention.
Guides/Publications
In this guide, we explain how educators can establish IEP goals that are measurable, ambitious, and appropriate in light of the student's circumstances. Four important steps are required for setting a valid goal for individual student performance: selecting a measure, establishing baseline performance, choosing a strategy for setting the goal, and writing a measurable goal.
Guides/Publications
The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of behavioral progress monitoring and goal setting to inform data-driven decision making within tiered support models and individualized education programs (IEPs).
Guides/Publications
AIR GBG is a universal classroom management strategy designed to teach increase on task behavior and reduce aggressive and disruptive behavior. An evidence-based intervention, AIR GBG has been linked to positive short-term behavior outcomes and long-term outcomes such as reduction of drug and alcohol use and suicide ideation and attempts
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This free online course from AIR was designed as an introduction to SEL for educators who endeavor to create a well-rounded educational experience. This course is designed for all educators to ensure that the whole school community is engaged in the adoption and implementation of sustainable SEL practices.
Training Modules
Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools helps school leaders make sense of the various evidence-based resources and frameworks, including MTSS, designed to support the whole child.
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This brief evolved from a larger Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–funded project to examine the intersection of and alignment between social and emotional learning (SEL) and school climate. It includes the ten key ideas that emerged from a two-day discussion of SEL and school climate with practice leaders in April 2016.
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The Stop, Think, Act: Ready to Assess toolkit, is available at no cost from AIR SEL Solutions. It 1) highlights the importance of implementation readiness and the conditions that foster SEL and development; 2) includes assessments of learning conditions in and out of school; and 3) updates the list of available social and emotional competency assessments.
Tools
This log can be used as a daily and weekly record of the implementation of an individual student’s intensive intervention plan and can provide fidelity data used within individual problem solving meetings.
Tools
NCII has created a series of tools to help teams establish efficient and effective individual student data meetings. These include sample agendas, note taking forms, facilitator materials, and problem solving tools.
Tools
Since 2011 the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) has worked to build the capacity of state and local education agency personnel, university faculty, practitioners and other stakeholders to support the implementation of intensive intervention in reading, mathematics, and behavior for students with severe and/or persistent learning and behavioral needs.
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