IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: In February 2014, the New Jersey State Board of Education re-adopted N.J.A.C. 6A:16, with amendment to the regulations at N.J.A.C. 6A:16-8 that establish intervention and referral services (I&RS) and outline the functions of this system in each school building. The I&RS manual is currently being updated to reflect these changes and will be posted to this website upon completion. The current regulations can be accessed athttp://www.state.nj.us/education/code/current/title6a/chap16.pdf.
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Intervention Central -Academic Intervention Planner
The Intervention Planner for Academics is a free online tool that lets educators put together customized academic intervention plans to address reading, writing, and math issues for struggling learners. Once you have created an academic intervention plan, you can download the plan in text or PDF format and even email it to others. And if you have a free Intervention Central account, you can also save academic intervention plans that you create online for later retrieval.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/tools/academic-intervention-planner-struggling-students
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
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At its most basic level, differentiation consists of the efforts of teachers to respond to variance among learners in the classroom. Whenever a teacher reaches out to an individual or small group to vary his or her teaching in order to create the best learning experience possible, that teacher is differentiating instruction.