Links

Reading Resources

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
  DIBELS Web site with information, materials, and database.
• Dynamic Measurement Group
  Dynamic Measurement Group is a consortium of educational professionals dedicated to promoting the implementation of research-based educational assessment and intervention practices in schools in order to improve outcomes for children and support school success.
• Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
  Focuses on the five "Big Ideas" in beginning reading (phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension). Provides strategies with video clips.
• Florida Center for Reading Research
• Intervention Central
  A resource for both reading and behavior. Provides free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
• Intervention Techniques
  A Web site listing effective teaching techniques. Students studying special education at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and East Tennessee State University College of Education have read and summarized scores of research articles about teaching techniques for exceptional learners.
• Reading First - Parent Guide
  A resource for parents to use to help build their child's reading skills from preschool through third grade.
• Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts
• No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
  
• Oregon Reading First

Behavior Resources

• School-Wide Information System (SWIS)
  School-wide database.
• Intervention Central
  A resource for both reading and behavior. Provides free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
• Responding to Individual Differences in Education (RIDE)
  A subscription-based Web resource for addressing problem behavior.
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
  This site provides for broad dissemination to schools, families, and communities about a technology of schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports. Demonstrations at the level of individual students, schools, districts, and states that schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports are feasible and effective.
• Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Positive Behavior Support
• Association for Positive Behavior Support
• The Behavior Home Page
• Colorado Department of Education Positive Behavior Support

Response to Intervention (RtI)

• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• National Center on Response to Intervention
• RtI Action Network

Scaling-up Effective Practices

• State Implementation of Scaling-up Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center
• National Implementation Research Network (NIRN)

 Michigan Department of Education

• Michigan Department of Education (MDE)
• Office of School Improvement (OSI)
• Office of Special Education & Early Intervention Services (OSE-EIS)