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David E. DeMatthews; Pedro Reyes; Jinseok Shin; Torri D. Hart – Texas Education Research Center, 2025
To ensure students with disabilities receive the services they need to support their learning, the U.S. Congress reauthorized the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 2004. IDEA requires that each state: (1) implement IDEA with fidelity; (2) sustain special education programs that meet IDEA's educational standards; and (3) monitor…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Program Implementation, Program Administration
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2014
The purpose of this guide is to provide information on how to use early warning data, including the Massachusetts Early Warning Indicator System (EWIS), to identify, diagnose, support and monitor students in grades 1-12. It offers educators an overview of EWIS and how to effectively use these data in conjunction with local data by following a…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students, Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
Therriault, Susan Bowles; Heppen, Jessica; O'Cummings, Mindee; Fryer, Lindsay; Johnson, Amy – National High School Center, 2010
This Early Warning System (EWS) Implementation Guide is a supporting document for schools and districts that are implementing the National High School Center's Early Warning System (EWS) Tool v2.0. Developed by the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), the guide and tool support the establishment and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students, Decision Making
Prewett, Sara; Mellard, Daryl; Lieske-Lupo, Jessica – National Center on Response to Intervention, 2011
Planning, developing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change, such as Response to Intervention (RTI), is a complex endeavor. This brief is designed to give practitioners guidance based on the implementation activities of middle school practitioners across the country. The authors recognize that secondary schools must consider many…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Response to Intervention, Credits, Organizational Change
Dickens, Ben H. – 1983
Information, materials, and suggestions are offered for providing vocational education for the gifted and talented. Introductory materials include definitions of the gifted, a review of vocational education literature concerning gifted and talented students, and procedures for identifying gifted and talented students. Guidelines are provided both…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Gifted, High Schools, Identification
Poppe, Roger L.; Gabaldon, Thomas – 1991
This paper describes a rural Hispanic community's efforts to identify and develop a program for gifted students in grades 2-6 who are also mildly to moderately handicapped (learning disabled, behavior disordered, or communication disordered). The "Twice Exceptional" (2E) program, in Los Lunas, New Mexico, is a modified full-time separate…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Behavior Disorders, Communication Disorders, Curriculum Development
Pinellas County School Board, Clearwater, FL. – 1985
Intended for use by education, health, and child care specialists, the manual describes the development of an interdisciplinary community-based screening program for infants and toddlers. Part I examines four basic planning considerations: needs assessment, personnel, instrumentation, and parents' needs. Part II focuses on aspects of program…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Disabilities, Identification
Ching, Pearl; Hee, Vivian – 1985
Designed for regular classroom as well as special class teachers, the guide is intended to help implement a differentiated curriculum for gifted and talented students. An overview of a synergistic approach to gifted education is followed by a list of 10 major steps in implementing gifted and talented programs. Each of the steps is then examined in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Lesson Plans
Delisle, Jim; Lewis, Barbara A. – 2002
This guide is intended for teachers and administrators of programs for gifted students. Following an introductory chapter, six chapters present six survival strategies (sample subtopics in parentheses): (1) set a solid foundation for your program (stating your mission and philosophy, conducting a needs assessment); (2) cast a wide net to identify…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Education Branch. – 1996
Designed to assist Alberta (Canada) school authorities in preparing applications for special education funding, this handbook describes the types of special education funding available, how to apply for special education funding, and how applications for special education funding are monitored. An introduction explains that school boards and…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disabilities, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
California Association for the Gifted. – 1990
Guidelines are offered to serve as a practical, adaptable model for implementation of a search, screening, and identification process for students eligible for Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) in California. The guidelines cover: catgories of identification; appropriate grade levels for identification; general procedures for search and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Evaluation Methods
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Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1985
The document contains the annual reports (1983/84 and 1984/85) of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District's gifted and talented program. Major accomplishments of the first year were reorganization with the implementation of the AIM High program at the elementary level and an honors program at the secondary level; design and implementation…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Inservice Teacher Education
Pruitt-Shough, Ann; Stuller, Arlene – 1989
The Kindergarten Oral Language Project (KOLP) is a program of the Los Angeles (California) Unified School District. The program is based on Teaching Activities for Language Knowledge and is designed to improve oral language skills of the kindergarten population, identify students at risk for language and speech problems, and decrease incidences of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Handicap Identification, High Risk Students, Kindergarten
Bonny Eagle High School, West Buxton, ME. – 1982
This publication is designed to assist secondary school and vocational personnel with the process of conducting initial and ongoing screening observations for the purpose of identifying students with a handicapping condition that presents a barrier to learning. Development of the screening process is overviewed. The discussion of the vocational…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Faculty Development, Handicap Identification, Inservice Teacher Education
California Association for the Gifted. – 1980
Intended for use by educators and parents, the workbook is intended to help in the development or expansion of programs for the gifted and talented as required by the California Education Code's AB 1040, effective from 1980 to 1985. After introductory material, the first section provides a detailed interpretive analysis of AB 1040 noting the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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