The Region 6 State Support Team has created a tutorial that will explain how to use and interpret the DIBELS Summary of Effectiveness Report in order to make data driven decisions about your school district’s reading curriculum and system of reading interventions. The data generated from this report is intended to examine the effectiveness of your district’s core curriculum and instructional supports.

Read more: DIBELS: Summary of Effectiveness Tutorial

Learning Point Associates in conjunction with The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement have relaesed a research brief entitled A Road Map for Mathematics Achievement for all Students: Findings from the National Mathematics Panel. The National Panel outlined six overarching recommendations as a comprehensive approach to mathematics education. This research brief will focus on the first three topics and the recommendations for PK-12 education.

Getting to "Got It!" Helping Mathematics Students Reach Deep Understanding (also available in PDF format) is available from The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement in their March 2008 newsletter. The article discusses a recent practice guide titled Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning that aims to supplement and inform teachers' instincts and experiences by identifying research-based instructional strategies that teachers of all content areas can use to improve student learning.

The newest Ohio Core outline and PowerPoint are available for downloading. Both of these documents can be downloaded:

New Ohio Core Outline

Ohio Core Power Point

Other Ohio Core resources can be found at the Ohio Department of Education's web site by using the search words "Ohio Core".

INFOhio has published two new resources to help teachers develop curriculum connections for 21st century learning. These documents outline how INFOhio’s 21st century learning resources support and enrich 21st century teaching and learning skills through equitable access to standards-aligned quality resources. Use these documents to plan a 21st century learning approach that encourages innovation, creativity and global competence within Ohio classrooms. The resources can be found at http://www.infohio.org/preparingohiolearners.html .