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The NMPED not endorse any particular document or website, but offers the following ones that schools may investigate further:

Response to Intervention: What Families and Educators Need to Know Published by Parents Reaching Out of New Mexico www.parentsreachingout.org Response to Intervention (RTI): A Primer for Parents Published the National Association of School Psychologists www.nasponline.org/resources/factsheets/rtiprimer.aspx

• National Center for Response to Intervention, a federally-funded technical assistance center. This Center’s mission is to provide technical assistance and dissemination about proven and promising models for RTI and early intervening services to state and local educators, families, and other stakeholders.
  www.rti4success.org

• RtI Action Network is dedicated to the effective implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) in school districts nationwide. Its goal is to guide educators and families in the large-scale implementation of RTI so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students – including those with learning disabilities – are identified early and receive the necessary supports to be successful. The RTI Action Network is a program of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, funded by the Cisco Foundation and in partnership with the nation’s leading education associations and top RTI experts.  
  www.rtinetwork.org

• Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. The site was created by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from Central New York.
  www.interventioncentral.org

• Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports (PBIS) is the OSEP-funded National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports. It was established to address the behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning and social development of students. The Center provides capacity-building information and technical support about behavioral systems to assist states and districts in the design of effective schools.
  www.pbis.org

• The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
  http://www.nrcld.org
  
  The NRCLD Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention.
  http://www.nrcld.org/resource_kit

  NRCLD has developed this kit to help you navigate changes related to specific learning disability determination and responsiveness to intervention.
  
  All materials in this kit are in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part is granted.
  
  The sections of the kit include:

• General Information
• Tools for Change
• Getting Started Manual
• RTI Manual
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Parent Pages

Also, you may download the complete Learning Disabilities Resource Kit at http://www.nrcld.org/resource_kit/LD_Reource_Kit.zip

• Hawthorne Publications, who publish the various intervention manuals, have developed a paper which outlines research support for the interventions in those manuals.
  Find the paper at http://www.hes-inc.com/hes/samples/Research%20Based%20Interventions.pdf

• What Works Clearinghouse—A central, independent source of scientific evidence of what works in education (U.S. Department of Education)  http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

• Best Evidence Encyclopedia—a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12.
  http://www.bestevidence.org/

• The Promising Practices Network (PPN)—operated by the Rand Corp. is dedicated to providing quality evidence-based information about what works to improve the lives of children, youth, and families. The PPN site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children. All of the information on the site has been screened for scientific rigor, relevance, and clarity. 
  http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

• Alternative Strategies Manual for the Problem Learner published by the Georgia Learning Resources System contains a comprehensive collection of classroom management and instructional strategies that are helpful in developing informal interventions or to pair with more intense ones.
  
  
• In conjunction with the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE), the Council of Administers in Special Education (CASE) has published two new documents in their joint Response to Intervention (RTI) Blueprint series. The two Blueprints, Response to Intervention Blueprints for Implementation: District Level and Response to Intervention Blueprints for Implementation: School Building Level, provide step-by-step implementation guidelines, resources and tips from RTI implementers with many years of experience. The Blueprints are intentionally designed to provide a framework around which RTI implementation can be built. http://www.nasdse.org