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Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC) supported the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) in developing an evidence-based menu of more rigorous interventions (MRI) for the state's Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), schools identified as CSI, including the bottom 5 percent of Title…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Improvement, State Departments of Education, Evidence Based Practice
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Johnson, Evelyn S.; Semmelroth, Carrie; Mellard, Daryl F.; Hopper, Gina – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2012
The Idaho State Department of Education (SDE) recently revised its SLD identification policy to include a requirement to document a student's response to intervention coupled with a comprehensive evaluation. To implement this policy, the SDE is using multiple implementation drivers. In this article, we describe how and why the new policy was…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Response to Intervention, State Programs, Evaluation
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Stepanek, Jennifer; Peixotto, Kit – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2009
Response to intervention (RTI) is a framework for providing interventions and services at increasing levels of intensity until students succeed. The framework helps teachers and schools provide instruction and interventions matched to student needs, monitor progress frequently to guide decisions about changes in instruction or goals, and apply…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Learning Disabilities
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Compensatory, Urban, and Supplementary Programs. – 1987
This document describes a program developed by Maryland's Youth Suicide Prevention School Program Committee in response to state legislation, and is intended to: (1) assist in increasing the awareness among school personnel and community leaders of the incidence of teenage suicide; (2) train school personnel in individual and schoolwide strategies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Prevention
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Graham, Mimi A.; Scott, Keith G. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1988
Fifty states responded to a survey comparing definitions of high risk and determining which agencies serve high-risk infants and toddlers. Results showed that: only 24 states have definitions of risk, populations eligible for services vary immensely among states, and the majority of lead agencies were located in departments of education.…
Descriptors: Definitions, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Eligibility
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Wood, Judy W.; And Others – Action in Teacher Education, 1990
Discusses a study which examined state use of prereferral intervention for students with handicaps, determining whether specialized training in prereferral is provided in states promoting it. Survey results indicated that 34 state education agencies promoted prereferral intervention, and 49 percent of those implementing it were trained in…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Disabilities, Handicap Identification, High Risk Students
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of County and Regional Services. – 1986
Implemented in January 1984, the two-part New Jersey local assistance plan calls for state intervention and possible takeover in districts that are unable, after going through the Level I and Level II monitoring and correction processes, to meet state certification standards. The first phase of the intervention plan, a Level III monitoring…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Certification, Compliance (Legal), Elementary Secondary Education
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Dworet, Donald H.; Rathgeber, Arthur J. – Behavioral Disorders, 1990
This study describes current provincial/territorial responses to behaviorally disordered students in Canada, comparing this perspective to a 1981 study. Topics examined include definition, prevalence, services available, standards, mainstreaming, program effectiveness, funding, and teacher training requirements. Recommended actions by…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Delivery Systems, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education