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FOR OUR LAST TWO WEBINARS!

Incorporating Student Progress Monitoring Into Teacher Education Courses
On September 4 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. EDT, Dr. Pam Fernstrom will lead an exciting webinar on including student progress monitoring in preservice courses. This webinar will be particularly important for higher education faculty in both general and special education. For more information about this webinar, including directions on how to participate, click here. See you online!

SPM and Data-Based Instruction on September 25!
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for the Center's final webinar on Data- Based Instruction in Special Education. This webinar, presented by Dr. Lynn Fuchs and Dr. Doug Fuchs from 2:00 to 3:30 ET, will focus on the use of curriculum-based measurement student progress monitoring data for individualizing and monitoring the effectiveness of instruction in special education. We'll be sending out more information about how to participate in this exciting event soon!

Center Presents at DC's SIG Conference
On August 6, 2008 the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring presented a full day workshop on “Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Determine Response to Intervention” at the District of Columbia’s State Improvement Grant Summer Conference.  Participants were introduced to CBM procedures in reading and mathematics and to a three-tiered RTI model.  Participants learned how CBM can be used to identify students in need of more intensive interventions, monitor students’ progress in each tier, and make data-based decisions. This presentation was adapted from our previous Summer Institute presentation and materials, which can be found here.

U.S. Department of Education Announces States for Participation in Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Pilot
On August 4, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced that seven states -- Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia -- have permission to allow districts in their first year of improvement status to offer its students free tutoring (supplemental educational services) during the 2008-09 school year before allowing them to transfer to another school as part of the school choice option under No Child Left Behind.

According to the Department, supplemental educational services are an important component of the law, giving low-income parents real options to obtain free tutoring and after-school services for their children. These seven states will also offer the school choice transfer option, either at the same time as SES, or in the second year of school improvement status along with SES.

National RTI Center to Hold Webinar on Implementing RTI
The National Center on Response to Intervention will be hosting a webinar on "Planning for the Implementation of RTI: Examples from the MP3 Model Demonstration Project" on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET. This free webinar is open to anyone who is interested, but its main purpose is to provide state educational agencies with a description of the process the Monitoring the Progress of Pennsylvania's Pupils (MP3) project used to diagnose schools' readiness to implement RTI and assess their professional development needs. In addition, this webinar will discuss the professional development provided by MP3 to the schools and the initial findings of the project. For more information and directions on how to participate, click here.

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