The Adolescent Literacy KnowledgeBase provides ways to integrate literacy and content area instruction across grades 4 through 12. The KnowledgeBase supports content teachers with resources to make their teaching more effective.  The four elements in this KnowledgeBase are (a) Nature of Adolescence; (b) Adolescent Literacy Concepts; (c) School and Community Context; and (d) Literacy and Content Area Instruction Integration. (Located at the University of Oklahoma, the Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center is a regional technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.)

The Adolescent Literacy KnowledgeBase provides ways to integrate literacy and content area instruction across grades 4 through 12. The KnowledgeBase supports content teachers with resources to make their teaching more effective.  The four elements in this KnowledgeBase are (a) Nature of Adolescence; (b) Adolescent Literacy Concepts; (c) School and Community Context; and (d) Literacy and Content Area Instruction Integration. (Located at the University of Oklahoma, the Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center is a regional technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.)

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 this online course is to help school administrators better articulate the connections between prevention and achievement, so that they can more effectively promote prevention programs in their schools and communities. Course materials are also available in downloadable print format. (This course is offered by the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Drug Prevention and School Safety Program Coordinators with funding from the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, 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 ...

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.)

The Vaughn Gross Center has developed a range of professional development materials for personnel working with students who have disabilities, including several for workshop presenters.  A variety of instructional topics are covered under (a) K-12; (b) primary grades; and (c) secondary grades.   Some are general education guides that have been adapted for special education, and these are indicated.  Nine materials are available for download. They were developed between 2000 and 2009. (Founded in 1996 as the Texas Center for Reading & Language Arts, the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts is a research and development initiative at the University of Texas ...

This guide presents strategies that classroom teachers and specialists can use to increase the reading ability of adolescent students.  The recommendations aim to help students gain more from their reading tasks, improve their motivation for and engagement in the learning process, and assist struggling readers who may need intensive and individualized attention.

This guide, designed to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively, can be used at the late elementary school level, in content-area classes in middle and high school, and with intervention groups or classes. It provides a scaffold to build principals' understanding of scientifically based reading instruction, as a means for a principal to gather information about the quality of literacy and reading intervention instruction in a school, and as a data collection guide for planning targeted professional development and resource allocation. It includes examples of what a principal might expect to see in a classroom as well as templates ...

Use these webcasts as the centerpiece of staff development workshops or watch them for your own professional development whenever you have time.  Each webcast features a 60-minute video program that you view from the AdLit.org website.  The webcasts include recommended readings and suggested discussion questions.  You can also sign up for email alerts about upcoming webcasts.  (AdLit is a national multimedia project of WETA Public Television and Radio, Washington DC, and is funded by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.)

This guide focuses on teaching secondary students effective communication skills in both professional and social situations.   It includes four sections of materials for workshop presenters: (a) speaker’s notes and activities to accompany the overhead transparencies; (b) presentation slides, which present key points and activities for the workshop; (c) informational and notetaking handouts for participants, which expand on ideas presented in the presentation slides; and (d) a list of relevant references. (Founded in 1996 as the Texas Center for Reading & Language Arts, the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts is a research and development initiative at the University ...

This suite of resources has two purposes. First, it is designed to guide the delivery of instruction for adolescent struggling readers, particularly secondary interventions in the general education context. Second, it seeks to deepen technical assistance providersâ? knowledge of reading-related issues for adolescents with reading difficulties and learning disabilities and enrich providersâ? work with State and local education agencies. Detailing selected research-based instructional practices associated with positive effects for adolescent struggling readers, the suite comprises (a) a meta-analysis, (b) a practice brief, (c) a professional development module, and (d) a training of trainers ...