Submitted to the XIV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2010, this paper overviews the IRIS Center's STAR Legacy Modules in the context of global efforts to provide an increasingly effective education to students with disabilities. The paper includes notes on the Center's modules geared toward school leaders

This article—prepared by Naomi Tyler and Deborah Deutsch Smith and published in a 2011 issue of Prospects magazine—examines the increasing need for technology based solutions to the challenge of preparing teachers to work with students with disabilities in inclusive settings. The paper presents an overview of the IRIS resources, including a close look at the STAR Legacy Cycle upon which the Center's series of modules is based as well as an overview of recent field testing into the effectiveness of those modules as learning tools.

This paper was published in New Horizons for Learning Online Journal, Vol. XI No. 3, Fall 2005.

This paper, presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration, was composed by Mariela A. Rodriguez, James Gentilucci, and Pearl G. Sims and appears here by their permission.

This paper by the IRIS Center's Zina Yzquierdo and Naomi Tyler takes a look at the ways in which high-quality reading instruction intersects with the response to intervention (RTI) approach to meet the needs of beginning readers, to provide additional support to struggling learners, and to help identify students with specific learning disabilities as described in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 2004. As the state of Tennessee has moved to implement RTI, many school districts have turned to the state's Department of Education (TN DOE) for support. The paper also outlines the TN DOE's current policies related to the implementation of the RTI approach.

In this paper—which was drafted as part of the IRIS Center's participation in the 2010 Inclusive and Supportive Education Conference (ISEC) at Queens University in Belfast, Ireland—the authors examine the series of STAR Legacy Modules created and made freely available by the IRIS Center for Training Enhancements. Included is a description of the learning theory upon which those modules are based and a look at the field-testing and the research into learning outcomes associated with the use of the IRIS resources. The paper finds also that online materials and resources have become increasingly popular with learners in recent years and suggests that these resources can be used to help prepare teachers for careers in an environment in which the need to stay abreast of current research and trends has become increasingly challenging.

This overview, written by Joanne Lamphere Beckham and published in the Summer 2011 Peabody Reflector, offers a brief history of the IRIS Center and a look at the theoretical framework undergirding the Center's STAR Legacy Modules.

This professional development provider's overview of the IRIS Center and its resources was written by Kit Giddings, a program specialist with the Utah Personnel Development Center, and published in the September 2011 edition of The Utah Special Educator.

This briefing book formed the foundation of IRIS-II's presentation to its 3+2 Committee on September 4, 2008. Included is a project overview and complete accounting of the IRIS Center's objectives and outcomes to that date.

This report from an external evaluator details the results of a survey to determine who is using IRIS Resources, how highly they rate those resources, and to what extent those resources influence their practices and programs. The survey focused on college and university faculty and professional providers.

To fulfill one of our obligations, and to report our most recent happenings, the IRIS Center produces quarterly reports to share with IRIS users and the U.S. Department of Education. These quarterly reports detail resource production, scaling-up activities, additions and refinements to the IRIS Web site, presentation and conference participation, Web traffic data, and much, much more.