11 myths about RtI implementation along with explanations.

A glossary of MTSS/RTI terms.

Web page from March, 2003, as the U.S. prepares for war with Iraq.

This individual or small group activity helps teach the common core standard of sorting common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. Materials and detailed instructions are included.

While there is a great deal of information on reading and RTI, there is a dearth of research on math with RTI. Thus, the development and implementation of reading and RTI has blazed a path to RTMI (Response to Math Intervention).

This site from the Mount Holyoke College provides a speech by President Calvin Coolidge discussing Americas intervention in Nicaragua during the early 20th Century. He talks about the political instability, revolutions, and the US presence.

RTI is not a particular method or instructional approach, rather it is a process that aims to shift educational resources toward the delivery and evaluation of instruction that works best for students. This article provides a quick...

This article summarizes a study that evaluated the effectiveness of intensive instruction in the Word Identification Strategy, a learning strategy for decoding multi-syllabic words. Results indicate that intense strategy instruction...

This site offers links to Florida's State-wide Implementation Plan, The Use of Ongoing Progress Monitoring to Improve Reading Instruction (PDF), Rt1 Action Network, and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education.

Practice what you've learned about options available to regulate markets where the socially optimal quantity is not produced.

Research-based information and advice for sizing up reading programs and finding the right one for your child with a learning disability.

Practice what you have learned about the impact of price controls and quotas on consumer surplus, producer surplus, total surplus, and dead-weight loss in this four-question exercise.

From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes President Grover Cleveland's role in sending federal troops to suppress the Pullman boycott, resulting in increased chaos from the...

Identify the considerations of the government when it comes to using military force in a situation that constitutes vital national interest.

Observe students while they complete the following sheet to see how they discuss and match the numbers with the visual representation. Included is a score sheet to record data.

This is a lesson for repeated readings including directions, materials needed, procedures, and evaluation. The goal is to increase students' reading fluency and, therefore, their reading comprehension.

Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps young scholars recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.

Improve understanding of expository materials by getting the main ideas through paraphrasing. The paraphrasing strategy helps students recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are three steps for teaching...

The K-W-L strategy stands for what I Know, what I Want to learn, and what I did Learn. By activating learners' background knowledge, it improves comprehension of expository text.

This Michigan State University site suggests three question-answer relationships strategies, rather than four, leaving out "author and you." Includes examples of each relationship, steps for teaching, and assessment.

This article from the American Family Physician journal offers information on identification of alcohol-related problems, health risks, and treatment. A patient-information handout is linked.

This article focuses on a school-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) program. The goal is teaching behavioral expectations in the same manner as any core curriculum subject. The school will focus on three to five behavioral...

Three activities to help students with early math fluency: Quantity Discrimination (QD): The student is given a sheet of number pairs and must verbally identify the larger of the two values for each pair. Missing Number (MN): The student...

Essay discussing the events that influenced the U.S. to change its foreign policies during the years of 1914 to 1917. (Published Spring 1992, revised May 24, 1996)