Accountability Tools
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AIS Guidelines
While the New York State Education Department provides guidelines for Academic Intervention Services (AIS), these are flexible and allow for local variation.  To view these guidelines, click here .  These guidelines provide a range of structures for AIS provision in schools as well as suggestions for documenting service provision and progress monitoring. 

PIPs
At the local level, we have created a variety of progress monitoring tools for schools to use at their discretion. These include Personal Intervention Plans (PIPs).  We have created these for those grades in which promotional policy plays a role.  These can be used by schools as is (with the date updated to the current year) or they can be modified to suit specific needs within a school.  To view sample PIPs, click on the relevant levels below:

Grade 3-4 PIP, click here ;
Grade 3 PIP, click here ;
Grade 7 PIP, click here ;

A PIP for use with eight graders will be available for the Fall 2008-2009 school year.

 Response to Intervention RTI
When targeted intervention treatments are provided to struggling students, ongoing formative assessment is suggested to ensure that what we are doing is actually working.  This process is referred to as response to intention (RTI) and is one way that is typically used these days to determine whether an underlying disability is at play in students who do not respond to targeted interventions that would typically move student achievement.  There is a huge body of literature on this topic.  Look for frequently updated links on this topic such as the ones below.

5SchoolsRTIexperience.pdf
RTIWEbResources.pdf
KevinFeldmanRTIREsources.pdf
MythsaboutRtI.pdf  
CEC_ResponsetoInterventionThePromiseandthePeril.pdf
TieredInstructionwithHSStrugglingReaders.pdf
RtIAnAdministratorsPerspective106.pdf