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01/12/2023

💌We all want to belong.
Join the Elementary or Secondary 3-part series to explore creating (or improving) classroom and school communities where ALL students belong w/ Beth Gurney, Ph.D.! 👇Register👇
🥰Elementary: http://bit.ly/3CCsVUa
😍Secondary: http://bit.ly/3IDVeFn

04/25/2022

https://youtu.be/m-vgTWJE61A

In case you missed the Kentucky Reading Academies webinar, check it out!

A child’s ability to read is a critical predictor of both educational and lifelong success. Students must have every opportunity to gain and strengthen this ...

04/09/2022

Three great Nessy apps are feee through 4/11. Let us know if you check them out!

All 3 Nessy Hairy Phonics apps are free until the 11th of April! 🥚

Start your Easter with Nessy's egg-cellent apps!

🐰Hairy Phonics 1 https://www.nessy.com/shop/apps/hairy-phonics-1
🐰Hairy Phonics 2 https://www.nessy.com/shop/apps/hairy-phonics-2
🐰Hairy Phonics 3 https://www.nessy.com/shop/apps/hairy-phonics-3

03/29/2022

Chaired by Dr. Sharon Vaughn and just released!
A new Practice Guide on Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9
4 recommendations:
(1) multisyllabic word reading
(2) fluency building
(3) comp-building practices &
(4) stretch text.
Access here:

The following research staff contributed to the guide: Madhavi Jayanthi, Russell Gersten, Joseph Dimino, Mary Jo Taylor, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Sarah Krowka, Kelly Haymond, Samantha Wavell, Julia Lyskawa, Seth Morgan, Betsy Keating, and Armando Yañez.

03/11/2022

FREE event!
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtc-GpqjwtH9yyTJRAMwqFkCX3aODRelyr?fbclid=IwAR1k7iNLJiF1HDfkL5C1pDTYji_Nmb8050ojWX0nzHRLRBpjwrdc8OUUy1g

02/04/2022

Paraprofessionals in inclusive classrooms are in a unique position to facilitate peer relationships. Dr. Yun-Ching Chung describes paraprofessional facilitation strategies that find the balance between increasing students' with significant cognitive disabilities engagement with peers and reducing their reliance on adults: https://publications.ici.umn.edu/ties/peer-engagement/practice-guides/paraprofessional-facilitation

01/29/2022

https://www.ascd.org/blogs/what-wordle-reminds-us-about-effective-phonics-and-spelling-instruction?fbclid=IwAR29naFKTSfQSz--1o8XinYZfi94VYi3MMduHAh4HZ1amq80k1LWxYN0LLA

It’s hard to miss the meteoric rise of the Wordle craze. This game is not only a gift for lexophiles but also for educators. It reminds us that effective phonics and spelling instruction requires carefully designed, explicit teaching combined with volume reading, vocabulary building, and high leve...

01/21/2022

Look at this list of speakers for this FREE conference from Oregon Response to Instruction and Intervention (ORTIi)!

http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=kehq7vfab&oeidk=a07eiud5eoucea6739f&fbclid=IwAR3pDfhr5kcphO07VfUaQheVbYAM7sYSPlt509ln70vvXmGuDlQyRW3WUHg

At Zoom - Virtual Training Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 8:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time

01/19/2022

Check out this amazing FREE opportunity with Dr. Ehri and Kareem Weaver!

This is an excellent opportunity!
Linnea Ehri - !! Wow!
https://institute.aimpa.org/programs-research/research-to-practice-symposium/symposium2022

12/10/2021

T in TIES is for Increasing (T)ime in General Education

Did you know that only 3% of students with significant cognitive disabilities spend 80% or more of their time in school inside the general education classroom (Kleinert et al., 2015)? Yet, research supports greater outcomes for these students when educated in inclusive education. Increasing the time spent in the general education classroom is a key focus of TIES Center work!

Source: https://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/312/Least-Restrictive-Environment-Data/ -Restrictive-Environment-Data