TOPICS DATABASE IDEA 2004 Part B
View information on a variety of topics and related issues regarding the implementation of NCLB, IDEA and other legislation from federal sources, including vetted documents from the U.S. Department of Education, and resource documents from IDEA Partnership organizations.
Federal Sources
U.S. Department of Education - Home Page President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education (PCESE) – Final
What Works Clearinghouse – Home Page
IES Practice Guides: Assisting Students Struggling with Reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and Multi-Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices
Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades
Encouraging Girls in Math and Science
Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) - Home Page
Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) Under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA )
General IDEA Guidance from OSEP
OSEP’s Legislation and Policy Guidance
OSEP Policy Correspondence
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits Discrimination in Assigning Students to Schools, Classes or Courses of Study in Programs or Activities That Receive Federal Financial Assistance
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) IDEA 2004 Website:
Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004
This site is a "one-stop shop" for resources related to IDEA and its implementing regulations, released on August 3, 2006.
Topic Briefs:
Disproportionality
Early Intervening Services
Module 5: Disproportionality and Overrepresentation - scroll down
Video Clip:
Early Intervening Services/Response To Intervention (RTI)
Questions & Answers:
Questions and Answers On Response to Intervention (RTI) and Early Intervening Services (EIS)
OSEP Memorandum 07-09 to State Directors of Special Education IDEA and the requirements governing significant disproportionality under section 618(d) of IDEA .
Data Accountability Center (DAC) - Home Page Methods for Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education: A Technical Assistance Guide
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) – Home Page
Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention
Responsiveness to Intervention: An Alternative Approach to the Identification of Learning Disabilities
Responsiveness to intervention (RTI): How to Do It
Responsiveness to Intervention School-Based Practices
National SEA Conference on SLD Determination: Integrating RTI within the SLD Determination Process
Core concepts of RTI
Responsiveness-to-Intervention Symposium
Changing Roles Resources:
A Research-Based View of Specific Learning Disabilities: Implementing Change
Professional development and collaboration within the RTI process
The Scaling of Innovations: Factors to Consider Beyond Professional Development
RTI and Scaling Up
Effective Behavior & Instructional Support (Combined PBS, EIS, RTI)
Introduction to Responsiveness to Intervention: How to Do It
RTI School-Based Practices
Responsiveness to Intervention
Parents: How Can Early Intervening Services and Responsiveness to Intervention Work Together?
Parents: Who is the Student with Specific Learning Disability?
Parents: What is Progress Monitoring?
Parents: What is Responsiveness to Intervention?
SLD Eligibility: A Users' Guide to the New Regulations
Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention Tiered service delivery
Section on Progress monitoring
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement at Vanderbilt University – Home Page Modules
What Do You See? : Perceptions of Disability
Cultural and Linguistic Differences: What Teachers Should Know
Teaching and Learning in New Mexico: Considerations for Diverse Student Populations
RTI (Part 1): Overview RTI (Part 2): Assessment RTI (Part 3): Reading Instruction
Classroom Assessment (Part 1): An Introduction to Monitoring Academic Achievement in the Classroom
Classroom Assessment (Part 2*): Evaluating Reading Progress
Info Briefs
A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners
Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents
Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy
Communicating with Culturally Diverse Parents of Exceptional Children
Cultural Identity and Teaching
Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem
Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
On the Nexus of Race, Disability, and Overrepresentation
Practices for English-Language Learners: An Overview of Instructional Practices
Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions
Racial Disproportionality in School Disciplinary Practices
Understanding Culture
Working with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families
A Cultural, Linguistic, and Ecological Framework for Response to Intervention with English Language Learners
A Parent's Guide to Response-to-Intervention
Designing from the Ground Floor: Alternate Assessment on Alternate Achievement Standards Determining
Determining Adequate Yearly Progress Kindergarten through Grade 6 with Curriculum-Based Measurement
Early Reading Assessment: A Guiding Tool for Instruction
Helping Educators Discuss Responsiveness to Intervention with Parents and Students
Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High School: A Look at Approaches to Tiered Intervention
Parent Page: What is Responsiveness to Intervention?
Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions
Case Studies:
RTI: Data-Based Decision Making
RTI: Progress Monitoring
The IDEA Partnership - Home Page
The Partnership Collection on RTI
Together on RTI
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) – Home Page Response To Intervention (RTI)
Project FORUM at NASDSE - Home Page Response to Intervention as it Relates to Early Intervening Services: Recommendations
Project Forum's Policy Forum on Response to Intervention and Early Intervening Services (barriers, policy recommendation and implementation considerations)
Response to Intervention and Early Intervening Services Policy Forum Presentation
Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS): Policy Forum
State Definitions of Significant Disproportionality
English Language Learners with Disabilities: Identification and Other State Policies and Issue
National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt) – Home Page Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practice
Culturally Responsive Response To Intervention
Collection and Use of Evidence
Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents
Creating Opportunities to Learn: A Forum for Addressing Disproportionality
Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions Cultural Identity and Teaching Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education through Culturally Responsive Educational Systems Practitioner Brief : Haciendo frente a la sobrerepresentación de los estudiantes de origen cultural y lingüístico diverso en la educación especial: Pautas para los padres. It is also available in English:
Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents. Theoretical Assumptions for Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education: Measuring the Problem Racial Disproportionality in School Disciplinary Practices Preventing Disproportionate Representation: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Prereferral Interventions Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy Addressing Diversity in Schools: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
National Center on Instruction – Home Page
Center on Instruction Brochure .
RTI Tiered Instruction Goes Mainstream [K-12]
Synopsis of "The Use of Reading and Behavior Screening Measures to Predict Nonresponse to School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: A Longitudinal Analysis"
Secondary Applications of RTI: A Guided Discussion [6-12]
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) – Home Page
Addressing diversity Indicator 9: Disproportionate Representation in Special Education that is the Result of Inappropriate Identification
Percent of districts with disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in special education and related services that is the result of inappropriate identification.
Indicator 10: Disproportionate Representation in Specific Disability Categories that is the Result of Inappropriate Identification
Percent of districts with disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in specific disability categories that is the result of inappropriate identification.
Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC) – Home Page
Achievement Gaps, Diversity, and Disproportionality
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