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Welcome to NCLD's Educator Resource Center

Early Education Tools

  

K-8 Success Strategies
 

Transitioning to Kindergarten:
A Toolkit for Early Childhood
Transition to Kindergarten Toolkitprovides early childhood educators with a comprehensive, flexible, easy-to-use set of resources to enhance the transition to kindergarten for all children.

Early Literacy Webinars
NCLD and the Stern Center for Language and Learning co-sponsored a series of Webinars for early education teachers and child care providers that focused on building literacy skills in pre-K children.

  Classroom Strategies
Learn about classroom strategies for educators that can help ensure success for students with learning disabilities.

Effective Reading Instruction in the Classroom
Read what researchers have discovered about how to successfully teach children to read.

Monitoring Progress
Provides teachers with the information and resources they need to use progress monitoring techniques effectively.

LD Checklist of Signs and Symptoms
 
NCLD's LD Checklist of Signs and Symptoms provides a framework for identifying and addressing specific areas of concern. Although it does not diagnose learning disabilities, NCLD's LD Checklist can act as a tool for educators to engage parents of students they suspect may have a learning disability. Share the NCLD LD Checklist with students and parents alike!

Transitioning to Work or College for Teens

The Essentials
 

Transitioning from High School to College Symposium
ETS and NCLD joined together to explore pressing issues regarding post-secondary transition for students with LD. Review an outline of the main topics, presenter information, documents, along with additional resources.

Transition to College: Strategic Planning to Ensure Success for Students With Learning Disabilities (PDF)
Making plans for the future can be a daunting task for young adults with learning disabilites.
Share this brief with your students who have LD, to help them successfully plan for the future.

 
Research Roundup
NCLD's resident expert, Dr. Sheldon Horowitz, takes on some of the toughest issues facing educators today in his monthly column, Research Roundup.

NCLB Report Card
Find out how your state's students are faring under No Child Left Behind.

Homework 101
Dr. Sheldon Horowitz reviews the latest research surrounding homework.

The Social and Emotional Side of LD
Find out about how learning disabilities effect students, emotionally and socially, as well as academically.

Educator News
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) to hold first annual conference
The first annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) will be held on March 2nd – 4th, 2008 in Crystal City, Virginia. Progressing beyond the invited papers format, this conference will offer symposia; paper sessions; poster sessions and training opportunities.

The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems School designs Self-Assessment Guide for Culturally Responsive Practice
NCCRESt has designed a self-assessment instrument to assist elementary school practitioners (all professionals and paraprofessionals working in the schools, such as special and general education teachers, counselors and administrators) in creating schools that are culturally responsive in their programming and instruction so that optimal achievement might occur for all students including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Recognition and Response:  Pre-K RTI
RecognitionandResponse.org is a comprehensive online resource that provides educators with information about this cutting edge approach to early education.

The site offers information and resources to help early educators address the needs of young children (3 to 5 year-olds) who show signs that they may not be learning in an expected manner, even before they begin kindergarten.

 
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