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Should interventions in Tier 2 and Tier 3 follow the alignment of the core curriculum?

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Daryl Mellard

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 Daryl Mellard

Dr. Daryl Mellard is one of the principal investigators at the National Dissemination and Technical Assistance Center on Response to Intervention and also at the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities. With the NRCLD he coordinated the largest national study of local school districts' implementation of responsiveness to intervention (RTI) involving 41 school settings. He has written and published materials examining RTI components and their implementation for journals, (e.g., Journal of Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Quarterly, and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, NAESP Leadership) agencies and organizations. With a colleague, Dr. Evelyn Johnson, he wrote RTI: The practitioners guide to response to intervention (Corwin Press, 2008).

Daryl’s other current projects involve improving adult literacy through interventions provided in adult education, Job Corps, GED, vocational rehabilitation and literacy programs. 

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