2025 Spring Conference Resource List

Empowering Bilingual Students with Dyslexia
Sal Flores and Jenny Gomez-Smith
This document offers activities you can do to empower bilingual and dyslexic students.

Instructional Activities
Eileen Catizone
In this presentation, you'll learn the history of phonology, and other strategies to help phonological awareness.

Instructional Routines for Mathematics Intervention
Dr. Sarah Powell
The purpose of these mathematics instructional routines is to provide educators with materials to use when providing intervention to students who experience difficulty with mathematics.

Specialized Math Intervention to Reach All Learners
Dr. Sarah Powell
UT Math SPIRAL uses a math professional learning-coaching model to focus its efforts on Austin ISD educators, with the goal of accelerating math gains for all students post-pandemic.

Teaching By Science
Nathaniel Handsford
Bridging the divide between educational practice and research.

The Scientific Principles of Reading Instruction
Nathaniel Hansford
The Scientific Principles of Reading Instruction provides a summary of the current scientific consensus on reading and writing instruction, as can be found through the interpretation of meta-analysis. The book summarizes the findings of dozens of meta-analyses in order to establish what we do and don't know about teaching students how to read and write. The book covers the topics of phonemic awareness, phonics, morphology, vocabulary, "sight words", fluency, comprehension, spelling, writing, programming, sound walls, and intervention.

Understanding Student Profiles
Eileen Catizone
This document shows the skills that should be assessed when individuals show symptoms of dyslexia and how to organize results to identify common subtypes. You'll also learn actionable steps in instruction for each subtype.

Word-Problem Intervention
Dr. Sarah Powell
Pirate Math Equation Quest was developed as an extension of the Pirate Math program developed by Lynn Fuchs, Ph.D., and her colleagues at Vanderbilt University. The iterations of Pirate Math Equation Quest rely upon the core components of Pirate Math.