Summer SPLASH Great Success!

400 plus participants attended this event focused on RtI (Response to Intervention) with keynote speaker, Alan Coulter. You can download handouts from the sessions by visiting our new Resources section on the main menu...click on Event Handouts.

November Network Institute

If you missed the Summer SPLASH, you have another opportunity this November. Registration will soon be available for the November Network Institute...more details under Important Dates on the left side of your screen.  Once again, RtI will be our focus. Sessions include:

Real middle grades schools sharing their progress and practices regarding RTI

How to improve ISAT Special Education subgroups

Co-teaching in the inclusion classroom

Engineers Without Borders (University of Illinois) presenting (modules for science teachers)

2007 Mini-grant recipients

Assessment Ideas

As well as…..teaming, advisory and building a middle grades culture

Illinois Horizon Schools to Watch

Deadline for applications for new schools is October 12, 2008

Redesignation school applications are due October 31, 2008

Curious about becoming an Illinois Horizon School to Watch? Check out more above on our main menu or click here for Schools to Watch information.