In this session, Sarah Powell will discuss the framework for providing effective instruction to students with or at-risk for disabilities. We focus on two components (instruction and assessment), and how these components work in tandem. We will cover necessary components for the instructional platform, how to monitor student progress, and how to determine and implement effective adaptations to instruction.
Sarah R. Powell, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She conducts school-based research on ways to improve the mathematics outcomes for students with learning difficulties. Powell is currently Principal Investigator (PI) of a four-year Institute of Education Sciences efficacy grant related to word problems and equation solving for third-grade students with mathematics difficulties. Powell is also PI of a five-year early numeracy and literacy read-alouds project funded by the T.L.L. Temple Foundation, co-PI of a National Science Foundation grant aimed at developing a science intervention for second-grade students with learning difficulties, and co-PI of an Office of Special Education Programs model demonstration grant for middle school algebra readiness.