SciTrain is a research initiative to train high school math and science teachers to be more effective instructors for students with disabilities.  This project pursues the goal of understanding what accommodations are currently made in classrooms, and which ones are most needed.  SciTrain is the home for online training modules that teachers can use to enhance the learning experience for students with disabilities and provide accommodations to improve the success of all of their students.  The three online modules are on (a) Science, (b) Computer Science, and (c) Mathematics.  Free registration.  (Funded by the National Science Foundation, SciTrain is a project of ...

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball, from the University of Michigan, talks about instruction and achievement gaps, using math instruction and achievement as the primary example. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

SciTrain is a research initiative to train high school math and science teachers to be more effective instructors for students with disabilities.  This project pursues the goal of understanding what accommodations are currently made in classrooms, and which ones are most needed.  SciTrain is the home for online training modules that teachers can use to enhance the learning experience for students with disabilities and provide accommodations to improve the success of all of their students.  The three online modules are on (a) Science, (b) Computer Science, and (c) Mathematics.  Free registration.  (Funded by the National Science Foundation, SciTrain is a project of ...

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit covers basic instructional strategies, and discusses how to work with students who use assistive technologies or have exceptional needs. It also focuses on math and reading instruction and best practices in each area. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This presentation is part of the NEA Visiting Scholars Series. Dr. William Tate of Washington University in St. Louis presents research on math and science learning, discussing what kinds of math and science students need to move on and what kinds of math and science a knowledge-based economy needs its high school and college graduates to have mastered from the earliest grades on. He discusses the cost to a region that fails to prepare its students for its main industries, citing biotech. He gives information on trends in black students earning degrees in science and what those trends mean in terms of what K-12 education is doing and can do. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring ...

This is a collection of resources and professional development materials that allow teachers to support students with disabilities and English language learners in mastering high-level mathematics.  The contents comprise a collection from various developers.  The six topical sections of the toolkit are (a) Universal Design Curriculum Modules; (b) Collaborative Online Professional Development; (c) Engaging Families and Communities; (d) Teaching High-Level Math to English Language Learners; (e) Collaborating and Co-Teaching: and (f) Language in the Math Classroom. (With headquarters in Savoy, Illinois, the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform is an alliance of more than ...

The purpose of these video presentations and written materials is to help science, mathematics, technology, and special education teachers and teacher educators become more aware of (a) the rights, potential contributions, and needs of students with disabilities; (b) their responsibilities for ensuring equal educational opportunities for all students in their programs; (c)  strategies for accommodating students who have disabilities in science and mathematics classes; and (d) resources. (Located at the University of Washington in Seattle, DO-IT is an award-winning program that serves to increase the successful participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs ...

Developed from an interactive CD-ROM, this program can be downloaded from the website, along with a staff development booklet and resources for training.  This package can be used as an instructional device for preservice and inservice teachers, teacher education faculty, and college faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM fields).  It is intended to (a) introduce educators and future educators to research on gender and gender socialization, (b) sensitize users to the gender bias that operates in STEM classrooms and programs, and (c) expose users to classroom strategies and interventions designed to reduce gender
 bias.  (Seeing Gender is an initiative ...

This resource identifies professional development needs specific to mathematics. It includes a series of guiding questions that help State education agencies (SEAs) evaluate their existing programs and identify professional development activities that meet their needs.  It is designed to be used by Regional Comprehensive Centers in their work with State Departments of Education but may also be used by SEAs and districts independently.  (The Center on Instruction at RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is one of five content centers that support the Comprehensive Centers funded by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education.)

Taking early action may be key to helping students struggling with mathematics. The eight recommendations in this guide are designed to help teachers, principals, and administrators use Response to Intervention for the early detection, prevention, and support of students struggling with mathematics.

This resource identifies professional development needs specific to mathematics. It includes a series of guiding questions that help State education agencies (SEAs) evaluate their existing programs and identify professional development activities that meet their needs.  It is designed to be used by Regional Comprehensive Centers in their work with State Departments of Education but may also be used by SEAs and districts independently.  (The Center on Instruction at RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is one of five content centers that support the Comprehensive Centers funded by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education.)

Adaptations are Essential is a series of three resource guides written for teachers and other service providers who work with students with mild disabilities. The guides describe strategies for aligning students' individualized education programs (IEPs) with the state of Washington's essential academic learning requirements. Separate resource guides have been developed for reading, writing and mathematics. Each guide includes the following components: a) general information about adapting learning and assessment and why such adaptations are essential; b) a decision-making model for adapting instruction and assessment; c) suggestions for adapting assessments using materials from the Washington Assessment ...

Two case study units on Algebra are available from the IRIS Center.  One is on learning strategies for beginning Algebra, and the other pertains to intermediate Algebra.  Both offer strategies for working with students with disabilities who have difficulty with algebra.  The case studies provide information on strategies such as using algebra manipulatives, teaching vocabulary, and implementing graphic organizers. (Click on Math to access these case studies.)  InfoBriefs on various mathematics topics are also available.  On this and other topics, Vanderbilt University’s IRIS Center provides free interactive enhancement materials that translate research into practice ...

The goal of the Addressing Accessibility in Mathematics Project is to develop professional development models and materials that  enable mathematics and special education teachers to make middle school mathematics more accessible to a wide range of students, including those with special needs.  Three  papers may be downloaded: (a) Accessibility Strategies to Consider; (b) Guiding Questions for Accessibility Strategies; and (c) the Accessibility Tool List.  Free sign-in.  (Addressing Accessibility in Mathematics is a project of the Education Development Center Inc, Newton, Massachusetts, with funding from the National Science Foundation.)

Taking early action may be key to helping students struggling with mathematics. The eight recommendations in this guide are designed to help teachers, principals, and administrators use Response to Intervention for the early detection, prevention, and support of students struggling with mathematics.

These guides for workshop presenters relate to the Texas Prekindergarten Curriculum Guidelines but should be useful for personnel in any State.  The guides are (a) Implementing the Prekindergarten Curriculum Guidelines for Language and Early Literacy, Part I: Language Development and (b) Part II: Early Literacy; (c) Implementing the Prekindergarten Curriculum Guidelines for Mathematics and Science; (d) Implementing the Prekindergarten Curriculum Guidelines in Social Studies.   A booklet of activities to implement the guidelines is also available.  The guides were developed in 2000-2001.  (Founded in 1996, the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts is a research ...

The goal of this practice guide is to formulate specific and coherent evidence-based recommendations that educators can use to encourage girls in the fields of math and science.  The target audience is teachers and other school personnel who have direct contact with students, such as coaches, counselors, and principals.  The practice guide includes specific recommendations for educators and the quality of evidence that supports these recommendations.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a free online library of K-12 digital math manipulatives. This video introduces how students and teachers can use the 116 Java applets and related activities to build mathematical concept knowledge.

This professional development module -- consisting of a PowerPoint presentation and a presenter's manual -- describes progress monitoring, explains common techniques often mistaken for progress monitoring, and discusses application of progress monitoring in mathematics at both the elementary and secondary grade levels.  It also provides resources for additional information.  (The Center on Instruction is a project of RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), it is a content center serving as a resource for the regional Comprehensive Centers.)

Use this toolkit to build your afterschool program, in professional development settings, for activities and ideas, and as a research base in effective afterschool programming.  The topics are (a) literacy; (b) math; (c) science; (d) arts, (e) technology; and (f) homework.   Each subject area is filled with standards-based multi-media resources including: research-based practices, sample lessons, interactive activities, and video segments taken from afterschool programs across the country.  The web site demonstrates different ways to use the toolkit to promote staff development and support collegial learning.  (The primary contactor of this collaborative project, SEDL, ...

MathVIDS is an interactive website for teachers who are teaching mathematics to struggling learners. The primary theme of MathVIDS is to help educators connect to why struggling learners have difficulty learning mathematics and connect with effective instructional practices for these students. Features of MathVIDS include: (a) video models of real teachers in real classrooms using research-supported, effective mathematics instruction for struggling learners; (b) teaching plans that describe how these instructional practices can be integrated to teach important mathematical concepts; (c) a special section on metacognitive learning strategies for mathematics; (d) accommodations and instructional ...

The "School Leadership for Common Core Standards and College and Career Readiness" webinar series features six bi-weekly webinars, beginning January 2011, examining the important role principals and school leaders will play as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are implemented.

The New Hampshire Department of Education implemented a three-year (2006-2008) dropout prevention grant called APEX II. This project was extended into 2009. APEX II builds on a previous dropout prevention and school improvement program (APEX I) implemented in two New Hampshire high schools from 2002-2005. APEX I demonstrated the promise of strategically combining three powerful school improvement strategies to reduce dropout rates, and improve individual student success and overall school climate. These strategies are: (a) PBIS; (b) Rehabilitation, Empowerment, Natural Supports, Education and Work (RENEW); and (c) Student Leadership. Presentations from the 2008 APEX Conference plus other PowerPoint ...

This is a very extensive collection of training materials, including PowerPoints, handouts, forms and case studies. The topics are (a) Problem Solving; (b) Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM); (c) Consultation; (d) Reading; (e) Math; (f) Positive Behavior Support; (g) Comprehensive Assessment of Need. Some are available in both English and Spanish.

This webcast series is intended for personnel who support Head Start teaching teams: supervisors, directors, curriculum specialists, mentor-coaches, and T/TA staff.  The six-part series covers (a) WhereÃ?¢?s the Math?; (b) Numbers and Operations; (c) Geometry and Spatial Sense; (d) Measurement Math; (e) Patterns; and (f) Putting It All Together.  Viewing Guides for Math Leaders are included for Parts 2-6; readings included for Part 1.  You can download load a RealPlayer on this page in order to listen to the programs.  (The Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Service Center is a service of the Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. ...