New Center Webinar on Using CBM for AYP Next Month!
On Wednesday, December 12 at 2:00 pm ET, we will be holding the next in a series of webinars, entitled "Using CBM for AYP and other Data Reporting." This webinar will be presented by Dr. Michelle Hosp, one of our Center Trainers and Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. Stay tuned for more information about this exciting event!

Participate in Our Discussion Board!
Do you have follow-up questions from the 2007 Summer Institute?  General questions about student progress monitoring (SPM) or SPM tools? Implementation suggestions to share with your national colleagues?  If so, we encourage you to browse and participate in our online Discussion Board.  Learn how others are implementing SPM in their classrooms, schools, districts, and states.  If you have a specific progress monitoring question, please view our Frequently Asked Questions about Curriculum-Based Measurement page to see if our Center Trainers have addressed your concern.   

2007 Summer Institute Materials Available!
The National Center on Student Progress Monitoring held the 2007 Summer Institute on Student Progress Monitoring on July 10-11 in Nashville, Tennessee. The PowerPoint presentations, handouts, and training manuals from all sessions are available on our website. Whether or not you were able to attend the Summer Institute, you are sure to find the training material useful as you implement student progress monitoring in your state, district, building, or classroom! We encourage you to download and share these free materials with your colleagues.

ED Awards Almost $1 Million for Special Education Technical Assistance Center
The U.S. Department of Education announced today a $999,490 grant to the University of South Florida to create a national special education technical assistance center. With help from its partners, the University of Connecticut and University of Oregon, South Florida will establish a Center on State Implementation and Scaling-Up of Evidence-Based Practices (SISEP) at its Tampa campus to initially work with six states to give local school districts the know-how for building education programs that work for all students, including those with disabilities. The six states will be identified by next March. It is anticipated that the lessons learned from those half-dozen states will be shared and used by other states nationwide. http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/11/11022007.html

ED Launches Website to Help Educators "Do What Works"
The U.S. Department of Education today launched a new Web site to provide teachers, administrators and other educators with recommendations on effective teaching practices and examples of possible ways to implement those practices to help promote excellence in American education and improve student achievement. The new "Doing What Works" site, http://dww.ed.gov, offers a user-friendly interface to quickly locate teaching practices that have been found effective by the department's research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, and similar organizations. In addition, it cites examples of possible ways, although not necessarily the only ways, this research may be used to help students reach their academic potential. Doing What Works is meant to turn research to practice and help achieve the No Child Left Behind Act goal of ensuring every student is on grade-level by 2014. http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/11/11022007a.html

Project Forum Issues Report on the Collaboration Between Reading First and Special Education
Evidence suggests that scientifically based reading instruction can help young readers succeed and the Reading First program focuses on improving literacy instruction for K-3 students. A number of states have recognized that Reading First and special education can benefit from working together to meet the goal of improving literacy skills for students both with and without disabilities. The purpose of this study, completed by Project Forum at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE), is to describe the collaborative relationship between Reading First and special education in six states.
Reading First and Special Education: Examples of State-Level Collaboration

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