Instruction and Intervention Secondary Resources
Ancillary Tools and Resources
Ancillary Tools and Resources to Support Implementation of Response to Intervention
Reading Resources List: Grades K-12
This list of websites includes links to governmental, university, organizational and/or nonprofit entities and is intended to provide educators, parents, and other stakeholders with a collection resources to support reading instruction.
Bringing Literacy Strategies Into Content Instruction: Professional Learning for Secondary-Level Teachers
The Center on Instruction released this resource to support literacy instruction at the secondary level.
Dropout Prevention
This practice guide was released by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance at the Institute for Education Sciences. It provides includes six recommendations for reducing dropout rates.
Collaborative Instructional Log for students receiving intervention
National Reading First has developed this tool to manage information regarding specific intervention that is provided to a student.
The National Mathematics Panel: Implications for Policy and Practice
Dr. Russell Gersten shares the framework of the National Mathematics Panel and the Panel’s charge. Dr. Gersten also discusses the Panel’s major findings, key messages, and implications for specific school-improvement activities.
How Can Educators Collaborate to Support Student Success When Implementing Response to Intervention?
This presentation on collaboration focuses on three key concepts: providing a rationale for teacher collaboration, identifying legislation related to general education and special education supporting the need for collaboration and, discussing the Collaborative Instructional Log that can promote instructional connections between general education, special education, and other programs.
Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA) Initiative
The Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies (TALA) Initiative developed two separate research-based literacy Academies for middle school teachers—one for English and Language Arts teachers and one for content area teachers.
English Language Proficiency Standards
The English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), as required by 19 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 74, Subchapter A, §74.4, outline English language proficiency level descriptors and student expectations for English language learners (ELLs). School districts are required to implement ELPS as an integral part of each subject in the required curriculum.
National Center on Response to Intervention – Resources for High School
This resource offers information on various topics related to Response to Intervention at the High School level.
National Center on Response to Intervention – Resources for Middle School
This resource offers information on various topics related to Response to Intervention at the Middle School level.
Materials and Resources to Support Instruction at the Secondary Level
This web page has links to materials developed at the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas at Austin to support instruction at the secondary level.
Establishing an Intensive Reading and Writing Program for Secondary Students (Revised)
This guide is designed as a resource for those working with secondary students.
Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties: The Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook
This resource offers middle school reading teachers an overview of research-based instructional approaches for teaching struggling readers.
A Look at Tiered Interventions for High School Struggling Learners
This article was written by Helen Duffy, from the American Institute of Research.
Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making
This practice guide was released by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance at the Institute for Education Sciences. It provides a framework for using student achievement data to support instructional decision making, including how to adapt lessons or assignments in response to students’ needs, and how to alter classroom goals or objectives or modify student-grouping arrangements.
Collaborative Instructional Log for students with IEPs who are receiving intervention
National Reading First has developed this tool to manage information regarding specific intervention that is provided to students with IEPs.
RTI in Middle and High Schools
This brief was developed by the National Comprehensive Center on Teacher Quality. It explains how middle and high school teachers use the RtI process to improve classroom and school results.
RtI Leadership Summit 2009 – Rosemont Middle School, Fort Worth ISD
“Change: The Dynamic Force, Laying a Foundation by Implementing Best Practices in a School-wide Program” provides one middle school’s experience implementing methods typically used in elementary schools by outlining how the campus moved through the steps of transformative change.
Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools
This practice guide was developed by the What Works Clearinghouse for the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences.