Share Your Experiences at the Poster Session
If you have worked to establish student progress monitoring at the state, district, building, or classroom level, or attempted to implement student progress monitoring with mixed success, we would like to invite you to share with others the lessons you have learned from both your successes and struggles. In addition to providing you with important and useful information about Response to Intervention and teaching you how to use Curriculum-Based Measurement to improve instruction in reading and math, the 2006 Summer Institute also offers you the unique opportunity to present your own work to your colleagues.

We will hold a one-and-a-half-hour reception and poster session following the training workshops on Thursday, July 13 that will enable you to share your experiences with implementing student progress monitoring. Inspire and encourage others to begin implementing student progress monitoring in their own states, districts, buildings, and classrooms by sharing both your successes and challenges with them. Learn more and submit your poster proposal at http://www.studentprogress.org/summer_institute/postersignup.asp

U.S. Department of Education Tool Kit
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) have collaborated to produce a Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities to assist states in raising the achievement of all students with disabilities. This tool kit is an easy to understand and readily accessible source for research briefs and resources that are designed to improve instruction, assessment, and accountability for students with disabilities. The tool kit includes information about the department’s investments, papers on large-scale assessment, technical assistance (TA) products, and resources. Primary access to the tool kit is through the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Ideas That Work website.

TeachingLD's Expert Connection
The Division on Learning Disabilities hosts an online Expert Connection. Here you are given the opportunity to ask your tough questions and get responses from experts in the field. This month read what Dr. Lynn Fuchs has to say about how much progress students should be making each week on their CBM measures. In her response, Dr. Fuchs provides a table that gives minimum weekly increases by grade level for different tasks. In addition, read other question and answers about Response to Intervention, highly-qualified teachers and phonological skills. TeachingLD is a project of the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children.

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