IRIS in the Sunshine State: Use in College Courses and Sharing with Colleagues
"We have these incredible resources right at our fingertips. The utility is as creative and innumerable as our ideas for using them."
Welcome to the IRIS Center
The IRIS Center is a national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age twenty-one, through the use of effective evidence-based practices and interventions.
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IRIS Resource Locator
The IRL is your gateway to our modules, case study units, activities, and so much more. From accommodations to transition and everything in between, the IRL lets you tailor your search by topic area, resource type, media element, or age group and grade level.
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Professional Development
Love our free resources but need PD hours? IRIS has you covered. For a nominal fee, IRIS offers a trio of PD options. IRIS Professional Development allows educators to pursue PD certificates, engage our powerful School & District Platform, or earn IRIS Micro-credentials, PD units focused on discrete instructional skills and practices.
IRIS Stories
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IRIS & the Next Generation: Supporting Classrooms
"After showing teachers the modules and other resources, I’ve noticed that the amount and the quality of the performance indicators that can be seen in the classrooms have increased."
Featured Resources
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New Resource: Progress Monitoring: Mathematics
This resource introduces users to progress monitoring in mathematics, a type of formative assessment in which student learning is evaluated to provide feedback about performance to both learners and teachers.Get Started -
New Resource: Progress Monitoring: Reading
This resource introduces users to progress monitoring in reading, a type of formative assessment in which student learning is evaluated to provide feedback about performance to both learners and teachers.Get Started -
New Resource: IEPs for Administrators
Specifically designed with school administrators in mind, this module offers guidance on how to support and facilitate the development and implementation of high-quality IEPs.Get Started -
New Resource: IEP Module
Learn the process of developing high-quality individualized education programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities.Get Started
Our Tweets
MODULE MONDAY! We love it. You love it. Birds love it. Bees love it. Even educated fleas love it. (We think? Maybe? Seriously, who knows with fleas?) Today's #ModuleMonday module is all about developing and implementing high-quality IEPs: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/iep01/
Friday! Another week has gone by. Remember that all you have to do is do your best. Do one thing at a time. Remember to take a dance break every so often. We'll see you on the flipside. https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/
"Where's IRIS? For #TBT, I want her to highlight our module on fidelity of implementation: https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/fid/"
"Cretaceous era. Wanted to give her new time machine a workout."
"Weren't there a lot of huge marine reptiles in the Cretaceous?"
"I dunno. Why?"
[Meanwhile...]
Boss: I can't believe you opened an undersea IRIS Center without permission.
Me: Boss, we needed one! We were ignoring a vital constituency.
Boss: A vital...IT'S THE OCEAN!!
Me: Yeah, and it's full of schools.
Boss:
Me:
Boss: I'm hanging up now.
https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/
It's #TechnicalAssistanceTuesday and that means it's time again to dip into the IRIS PD mailbag!
Ahem..."Dear, IRIS, thank you for extending the filing deadline to July 15. How many ferrets is considered one dependent for withholding purposes?"
*siiigh*
https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/pd-hours/