Special Resource Material Developed by the Center


Title: Toward Next Steps in School Improvement: Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching (a Resource Aid)

Description: To provide some additional guidance for transforming student and learning supports, the Center at UCLA has compiled a new resource aid summarizing a set of frameworks. As with most Center resources, the document is immediately accessible online at no cost and with no restrictions on its use. The document outlines frameworks for reframing intervention, expanding school improvement policy, reworking infrastructure, and rethinking the implementation problem. Here, our focus is only on the matter of rethinking intervention. From our perspective, the primary message to carry away from the following discussion is the need to develop a comprehensive system of learning supports at every school

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/systemic/towardnextstep.pdf  70kb; 6pp