1. Improved Outcomes For All Children Progress Universal Monitoring
Screening
Research-Based
Core Curriculum
Improved
Outcomes
For All Children
Educational
Support
Teams
Fidelity and
Integrity of
Instruction and
Intervention
Tiered
Levels of
Intervention
Scientific
Research-
Based Interventions
Data-Based
Decision-
Making

2. SCIENTIFIC/EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS
School staff use research/evidence-based interventions to address a student’s specific difficulties.
SCIENTIFIC/EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS

4. How do I know if it’s research- based?
Clearly described (what/how)
Practical measure of fidelity/integrity
Fully operationalized (do/say)
Field tested (iterative revision)
Contextualized (school/systems fit)
Good outcomes (worth replicating)

5. Peer Reviewed Research
Provides a baseline of quality control
Determines credibility of findings
Teachers must research the research base of a publication, text, study, practice by reading scientific journals
Warning: An absence of peer review should raise doubts about the quality of the research

6. The Accumulation of an Evidence Base
What if I have reason to believe that what I do works in the absence of supporting research?
The Accumulation of an Evidence Base

7. Teachers as Researchers
A hypothesis testing approach – there is a high likelihood that this approach will be effective
Try it out with students for whom it seems appropriate.
Monitor the effectiveness of an intervention on individual student basis.
If the data indicates effectiveness, utilize the intervention with other students with similar difficulties.
Accumulate a history of success at the EST level and establish the efficacy of the intervention in your local school.

8. Resources that Identify Research & Evidence-based Practices
The National Center on Student Progress Monitoring has a standard process to evaluate the scientific rigor of commercially available tools to monitor students’ progress.
The Center on Instruction has information on recent empirical and practical developments related to RtI models and methods.
The Florida Center for Reading Research has information on differentiated reading instruction in the section for administrators in the Curriculum and Instruction section.
The Florida Center for Reading Research has information on research-based core instructional programs
The Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts provides information on research based instructional practices

9. Resources that Identify Research & Evidence-based Practices
The University of Texas has a site of evidenced-based instructional practices across grade levels
The University of Oregon site has a publication “Big Ideas in Beginning Reading; Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement. The site reviews research-based programs.
Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports are provided with research based practices.

10. Resources that Identify Research & Evidence-based Practices
The research base for Understanding by Design:
The research and theory for the components of readiness, interest and learning profile as well as the differentiation models as a whole.
Tomlinson, C.A.& McTighe, J. Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design, (pp )
What Works Clearing House evaluates programs and strategies.
Intervention Central provides curriculum-based measurement and strategies.

11. Improved Outcomes For All Children Progress Universal Monitoring
Screening
Research-Based
Core Curriculum
Improved
Outcomes
For All Children
Educational
Support
Teams
Fidelity and
Integrity of
Instruction and
Intervention
Tiered
Levels of
Intervention
Scientific
Research-
Based Interventions
Data-Based
Decision-
Making

12. Time to Practice
The Web

13. Save this template as a presentation (.ppt file) on your computer.
Using this PowerPoint break timer
This PowerPoint slide uses images, custom animation, and timing to provide a countdown timer that you can use in any presentation. When you open the template, you’ll notice that the timer is set at 00:00. However, when you start the slide show, the timer will start at the correct time and count down by 1-minute intervals until it gets to 1 minute. At that point, it will count down in two 30-seconds intervals to 00:00.
To insert this slide into your presentation
Save this template as a presentation (.ppt file) on your computer.
Open the presentation that will contain the timer.
On the Slides tab, place your insertion point after the slide that will precede the timer. (Make sure you don't select a slide. Your insertion point should be between the slides.)
On the Insert menu, click Slides from Files.
In the Slide Finder dialog box, click the Find Presentation tab.
Click Browse, locate and select the timer presentation, and then click Open.
In the Slides from Files dialog box, select the timer slide.
Select the Keep source formatting check box. If you do not select this check box, the copied slide will inherit the design of the slide that precedes it in the presentation.
Click Insert.
Click Close.