UMTA Documents

UMTA Program 2011 (.pdf)
UMTA Presentation Notes (fillable & savable PDF form)
Yearly Professional Growth Goal (fillable & savable PDF form)
UMTA Action Plan (fillable & savable PDF form) | Sample Action Plans (.pdf)
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February 2012-  
Wimba Archive (Feb 16) | Wimba Archive (Feb 17)
Co-Teaching Basic Model (.pdf) | Critical Difference Between Difficulty and Complexity (.pdf) | Give One Get One (.pdf)
Learning Pyramid 9 (.pdf) | Standards-Based IEP (.pdf) | Standards-Based IEP Classroom Self-Inventory (.pdf)
Application to Students with Disabilities (.pdf)

January 2012-  Devin Healey's - Presentation Handout (.pdf) | Presentation (.ppt)

Lesson: 1) Classroom Organization (.pdf)
Lesson: 2) Classroom Rules (.pdf)
Lesson: 3) Routines and Procedures (.pdf)
Lesson: 4) Eliciting Responses (.pdf)   

Thursday 19th AM Wimba Archive (link)
Thursday 19th PM Wimba Archive (link)
Friday 20th AM Wimba Archive (Link) 

November 2011-  (Coming Soon)

October 2011

Michael Herbert Resources - Handout (.pdf)
Tom Johnson Resources and Presentation (Site/Electronic Handout)

September 2011

Pam Robbins - Presentation Handout (.pdf) 
Clarity Precedes Competence -- Quotes (.pdf) 

March 24-25, 2011

March 2011 Graduation information for Track 24 (.pdf)
Please read this article before coming: Relationship Between Academics & Behavior (.pdf)

Ray Beck"s Handouts: 

1a) Relationship Between Academic & Behavior Thurs AM (.ppt) | Slides handout (.pdf)
1b) Can't do/Won't do (.pdf)

1c) Coming Soon updated RIDE BIB presentation
1) UMTA Fluency (.ppt) | Slides Handout (.pdf)
2) RIDE BIB (.ppt) | Slides Handout (.pdf)
3) How To Keep a Good Thing Going (.ppt) | Slides Handout (.pdf)
4) Building Academic Fluency (.pdf)
5) Chick-in-Check-out (.pdf)
6) The Good Student Game (.pdf)
7) Time Out Debriefing (.pdf)

February 17-18, 2011

Register for the Annual Conference and 25 Year Reunion - Register Here!

Track 25 Mentors - Facilitator Instructions: Powerpoint (.ppt) | Handout (.pdf)

Track 25 Mentors - Choose 1st and 2nd choice of conference sessions to facilitate, and email those choices to Kit Giddings - kitg@updc.org  Submit your choice by February 11th.  Assignments will be made that following week.

January 20-21, 2011
Please read this first chapter of Dr. Archer's book before attending this month, and come prepared to discuss it in guild:

Chapter One of Explicit Instruction by Anita Archer & Charles Hughes (.pdf)

Resources:
Anita's Handouts for the training
Explicit Instruction Book Website

November 18-19, 2010 - Agenda (.pdf)
Please read this article before attending this month, and come prepared to discuss it in guild:

Article: How to Run a Meeting by Wendy Larson (.pdf)

Presentation Handouts:
Farmers Exercise (.pdf) | Helium Tubes (.pdf)

Post Training Interview Clips:
Wendy Larsen and Rene Diaz discusses the basic components of effective meetings (.m4v)
Wendy Larsen and Rene Diaz on why it is important to have effective meetings (.m4v)

October 21-22, 2010 - Agenda (.pdf)
Please read one of these three articles before attending this month, and come prepared to discuss it in guild:

Articles:
Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers (.pdf)
Extensive Reading Interventions in Grades K-3 (.pdf)
Mathematics Instruction For Students With Learning Disabilities or Difficulty Learning Mathematics (.pdf)

Post Training Interview Clips:
Evelyn Johnson on how to begin implementing RtI (.m4v)
Evelyn Johnson discusses key distinctions between tier 2 and tier 3 interventions (.m4v)
Evelyn Johnson on how to select an appropriate tier 2 program (.m4v)
Evelyn Johnson discusses special educator's relevance in an RtI model (.m4v)

Presentation Handouts:
Evelyn Johnson Presentation Slides Notes (.pdf)
Response to Intervention Tiers 2 & 3 Handout (.pdf)
Evelyn's Slides (.pdf)
http://www.rti4success.org
http://www.rtinetwork.org

Evelyn Johnson's Resources:
CBM Template (.xlt)
Silver Sage PBS/RTI Handbook (.doc)
Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy (.pdf)
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Building Reading Proficiency at the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources (link)
GRAPS Instructions - http://www.rtigraphs.com/graps-instructions (link)
CBM Focus (link)
SEDL National Center For Quality Afterschool (link)
America's Choice - Common Core Standards (link)
National High School Center - Linking Research and Resources for Better High Schools (link)
Project AAIMS: Algebra Assessment and Instruction - Meeting Standards (link)
Direct Instruction Reading (5th Edition) (Amazon link)

Brian Kretschmar's Resources:
Brian's Calculating Weekly Progress (.doc)
Calculating Weekly Progress With Examples (.pdf)
Calculating Weekly Progress For Dibels NWF (.pdf)
Literacy Survey Assessment (.xls)
Data Collecting with Corrective Reading (.xls)
Data Collecting with Early Intervention in Reading (.xls)
Data Collecting with Reading Mastery (.xls)
Fuchs & Fuchs Growth Rates (.doc)

Analyzing DIBELS Progress Monitoring with Oral Reading Fluency (.xls)

September 22, 2010

 Pam Robbins Post Training Interview:
Pam discusses indicators that PLCs are impacting student and staff learning (.m4v)
Pam Robbins on the principal's role in the collaborative culture of a school (.m4v)

Sydnee Dickson - Presentation (.ppt)