This brief identifies seven common practices used to address educator shortages and features examples from states based on a scan of publicly available information throughout the United States.
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Designing and Delivering Intensive Interventions: A Teacher’s Toolkit
This companion to the practice guide Intensive Interventions for Students Struggling in Reading and Mathematics is a teacher toolkit designed to facilitate planning and delivery of research-based interventions. It includes resources for a professional development activity, intervention planning, and reflection. It serves as a starting point for deepening understanding of an intervention framework.
Reading in the Disciplines: The Challenges of Adolescent Literacy
This paper notes the differences between “learning to read” and “reading to learn,” highlighting the fact that “reading to learn” in the upper grades involves layers of complexity often unaddressed in other studies. The authors explore the more sophisticated types of support needed by adolescent readers, specifically in the content areas, and briefly share insights into the implications of their […]
Interrupted Instruction
Structured Literacy Introductory Guide
This guide from the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) provides information on the features and principles of structured literacy. It includes links to resources that support educator professional learning in structured literacy practices to improve independent reading abilities of students with reading difficulties, including students with dyslexia.