Our Website in Spanish
We have recently updated the Spanish section of our website, which answers basic questions about student progress monitoring and offers Spanish versions of our family-friendly papers. Teachers can print out our family papers in English and Spanish to share with parents and can direct them to the “Families” section of our website. At the bottom of each family paper in English, we have added a convenient link to the Spanish version.

Using RTI in Reading
The International Reading Association highlights the importance of Response to Intervention (RTI) in identifying and helping struggling learners and offers several related informational resources and policy briefs. Several resources, such as the PowerPoint presentation “Response to Intervention: New Roles for Reading Teachers in the Newly Authorized IDEA” address the important role RTI can play in identifying students with reading difficulties. Also visit our training page for materials on how to monitor students’ progress in reading using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) so that teachers can modify their instruction accordingly.

RTI Initiatives in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Access Center recently hosted a webinar called “Response to Intervention (RtI): 3 Tiered System: A Model to Meet Student Needs in Minneapolis Public Schools.” Since the mid-1990's, Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) has implemented a problem-solving approach to delivering early intervening services to struggling learners. Learn how Minneapolis Public Schools uses student progress monitoring, particularly CBM, as an integral piece of its problem solving model. The webinar also contains detailed information about their 3 tier system. View the webinar recording, transcript, and PowerPoint presentation by clicking on the link above.

Interactive Modules on Differentiated Instruction: Classroom Assessment utilizing CBM
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement offers multiple online modules that college faculty working in preservice preparation programs can use in their ongoing efforts to ensure that general education teachers, school administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are well prepared to work with students who have disabilities and with their families. Two related modules explain the importance of monitoring student progress. The first part provides an overview of CBM and shows how to implement it in the classroom and the second part explains how to monitor students’ progress in reading. Under the heading “Differentiated Instruction,” view the modules “Classroom Assessment” (Parts 1 and 2) for a hands-on student progress monitoring learning experience.

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