Family & Community Support

This section is devoted to sharing information and resources regarding the exceptionalities of all student learners.  The goal of education is inspire a child to be a life long learner.  Family and Community Supports can only strengthen and enrich this process. Students come to school with the gifts they bring to the table.  Sometimes they are diverse, gifted or require differentiated learning to access the curriculum.   

With the introduction of No Child Left Behind, the US Department of Education began to place emphasis on evidence-based education. Evidence-based practice involves using scientifically-based research to guide educational decisions regarding teaching and learning approaches, strategies, and interventions.  Below are links to information and resources regarding family and community supports as it pertains to access to the general education currciulum and student learning:

Response to Intervention [RtI]  

Response to Intervention [RTI] is the practice of providing high-quality instruction and interventions matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about changes in instruction or goals and applying child response data to important educational decisions.

The intent of RTI is not to layer yet another process on top of existing processes, but rather to utilize RTI to address the challenges and potential of NCLB for improving outcomes for all students, including students with disabilities.

Below is a list of links you may find helpful.

• National Center of Response to Intervention
• USDOE - Office of Special Education Programs Memorandum on RtI
• What is Response to Intervention? 

Educators need not wait for children to fail before implementing improvement strategies. Thanks to national achievement standards, teachers and related-service personnel are able to track student performance and make interventions early. Though most students need minimal help, some need major intervention. But choosing an effective approach can be daunting. Where should one start?
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Below are some links you may find helpful:

• Access Center
• CASL: Center on Accelerated Student Learning
• Council of Exceptional Children
• Federal Resources for Education Excellence
• Info Ohio
• IRIS (IDEA and Research for Inclusive Settings) Center
• National Clearinghouse of English Language Acquisition
• National Professional Development Center on Inclusion
• Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading
• Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies
• Promising Practices Network
• Reading Rockets: Reading Comprehension & Language Arts Teaching Strategies for Kids
• Special Connections
• The Math Forum
• What Works Clearinghouse

Supplemental Educational Services (SES)

Under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, school districts in Second Year School Improvement Status are required to provide parents and their children with the option of using supplemental educational services to help their children. The Educational Service Center is an ODE approved provider of Supplemental Education Services (SES) that districts can include on the listing of providers given to families. For those families that chose the ESC as a provider, the ESC will work with the district coordinator to get student information, provide tutors and materials, and keep ongoing records to student progress to be shared with parents and teachers. Families must work through their school district process to request SES services. Supplemental Educational Services (SES) - Parents