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The best present to give your students is to plan for the holiday mayhem. Here are a few tips to keep your classroom running as smoothly as possible. For most of us the holiday season brings joy, parties, family, and rest. But for some students it brings anxiety, worry and uncertainty. Keeping yo...

This article and resources created by Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak and Dr. Teresa Brown describes the importance of explicit and implicit vocabulary instruction in preschool classrooms and provides evidence-based strategies for enhancing vocabulary instruction. In addition there is a case exampl...

Participants will analyze data from the system. Based on that data the team will be able to craft a problem statement worth pursuing.  

Bringing Words to Life is an excellent resource that provides research-based strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. It explains why providing rich information about words and their uses enhance students' language comprehension and product...

Integrated Professional Development Plan   This tool was adapted from tools created from the collaboration with CI3T (Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-tiered Model of Prevention) research team at the University of Kansas (Lane, K.L, Oakes, W.P., et al. 2013-2015).