January 28, 2017 Saturday Speed Learning Sessions

At the Making Middle School Matter Workshop

Description: Highly interactive and informal sessions designed to spark new ideas and connect you with the resources you need! This is your chance to consult with the experts, view live demonstrations, and gather free tools and resources from a variety of projects at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at UT Austin. Focus on the topics of most interest to you, learn at your own pace, and be prepared to fill our toolkit with high quality resources that you’ll want to share with your colleagues back home.

Participating Projects:

Building Capacity for Response to Intervention
RTI is an instructional approach or framework that identifies students who have gaps in learning or behavior, and immediately provides them with increasingly intense levels of interventions until the gaps are closed.
Contact is Pam Bell and Kathleen Walker

Project AIM: Algebra-Readiness Mathematics Intervention for Middle School Students
The purpose of AIM is to develop a Tier II mathematics intervention for students in middle school. The team will write, revise, and test 8 to 10 modules, each containing 15 to 20 lessons, over 3 years in Texas and Missouri. The intervention lessons will be vetted in “authentic” classrooms, allowing results to be generalized across different groups of students.
Contact is Diane Bryant

Project GOAL: Preventing Dropout Among At-Risk Youth
This project will determine the effects of an individualized reading intervention and a dropout prevention intervention separately and in combination with adolescent English learners (ELs) who are struggling readers and are at risk for school dropout.
Contact is Kelly Williams

Write for Texas
The Write for Texas collection of resources is available to all secondary English language arts and reading and content area teachers to support effective writing instruction. The resources include critical background knowledge, activities, and videos that relate to the guiding principles of effective writing instruction. Participants learn and apply teaching techniques to support all students in writing.
Contact is Ellie Hanlon