«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and
better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.
Curricular Alignment, Differentiated Instruction, and Academic Interventions for Struggling Students
But in schools that intensively applied the principles of PLC's — collective ownership of student results, deliberate reflection on teaching practices,
explicit intervention for struggling students, and clear strategies for extending learning for students who need it — the format dramatically improved results, and those improvements were greater the longer the schools implemented these collaborative practices.
«For the past 12 years Randy Sprick and Mickey Garrison have set the standard for a methodology that enables school personnel to quickly identify proactive, positive, and effective
interventions for struggling students.
Her research interests include response to intervention and effective reading instruction and
intervention for struggling students.