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The new leverage briefs are the culmination of OSEP’s Attract, Prepare, Retain: Effective Personnel for All Initiative and highlight 13 leverage points covering strategies recognized by various stakeholders as essential to addressing critical shortages in the special education workforce.
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The Intervention IDEAs brief series describes interventions based on evidence, for practitioners and parents that address the academic, developmental and behavioral domains of infants and...
This toolkit includes information about the Department’s investments, papers on large-scale assessment, technical assistance (TA) products, and resources. The section on large-scale assessment includes a collection of seven papers and a glossary that address key issues related to the participation of students with disabilities in these standards-based assessments.
Project ELITE designed professional development and tools for implementing structured data meetings at key assessment points throughout the year (Beginning-, Middle-, and End-of-Year) for all educators serving ELs, as well as monthly for core (Tier I) classroom teachers.
Project ELITE worked with K–3 to implement a new way of reading books aloud to enhance students' vocabulary and comprehension. This flip book presents a routine for teachers to use in their classrooms.
These lessons from the National Center on Intensive Interventions (NCII) cover phonemic awareness, alphabetic principal or phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension and are examples of brief instructional routines that include sample scripts, activities and necessary materials to complete the activities.
This is the sixth chapter of the English Learner Tool Kit, which is intended to help State and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) meet their obligations to English Learners (ELs). This tool kit should be read in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Dear Colleague Letter on “English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient Parents,” published in January 2015, which outlines SEAs’ and LEAs’ legal obligations to ELs under civil rights laws and other Federal requirements. You also can access the entire English Learner Toolkit for State and Local Education Agencies (SEAs and LEAs).
Featuring bilingual speech-language pathologist Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan. This webcast discusses effective assessment and instruction strategies for English language learners with learning disabilities, as well as ways to help encourage the active involvement of parents of ELLs with LD in their children's schools.
This document is the fifth in a series of briefs for school leaders, educators, and policymakers charged with implementing or supporting multi tiered instruction that meet the needs of English learners (ELs).
In this introductory brief, three model demonstration projects describe their work implementing various tiered instructional models focused on language and literacy at schools with high percentages of English learners in kindergarten through grade 3. This brief is the first in a series devoted to effective practices for English learners.
This document is the third in a series of briefs for school leaders, educators, and policymakers charged with implementing or supporting multi-tiered instruction that meet the needs of English learners (ELs).
This brief is the fourth in a series for school leaders, educators, and policymakers charged with implementing or supporting multi-tiered instruction that meet the needs of English learners (ELs).
This website provides strategies and resources to help students with autism, who can struggle both because of organizational deficits and motor or coordination difficulties, with written expression.
This website streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Videos can include captions as desired.
This online intervention library is for beginning and struggling readers and includes 25 leveled beginning readers, mentor guides, at-home resources, and more.
This website provides day-to-day projects and activities to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
This website provides research-based strategies to teachers, parents, administrators, librarians, childcare providers, and anyone else involved in helping a young child become a strong, confident reader.