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Beverly Please join us in welcoming our new Director of Training Development, Beverly Trent. Beverly is an experienced DI trainer. She began her career in education in 2000 as an instructor in Orlando, Florida. She then became the Reading Teacher/Literacy Coach and implemented the Corrective Reading Decoding and Comprehension programs. She then moved to Columbus, Ohio in 2007 to be the Regional Consultant and Intervention Consultant for McGraw-Hill Education. After leaving McGraw-Hill in 2010, Beverly moved back to Florida and started Kidz 1st Consulting and Tutoring Services.

We look forward to Beverly's contributions to NIFDI's already solid set of training offerings, including our video in-service series. If you have any suggestions or needs for training materials, please contact us at training@nifdi.org.

NIFDI Press has recently released Strategies for Teaching Students with Severe and Low-Incidence Disabilities, by Siegfried Engelmann. The book, edited by Caitlin Rasplica Khoury and Jean Stockard, is a revision of Zig's earlier unpublished manuscript, The Low-Performers Manual. The book focuses on working with individuals who may require additional instruction in language-based skills, motor skills and in management of disruptive behavior prior to being taught in a general education setting. Zig describes the book as "useful for understanding how to teach learners that are too low in language for the beginning language program Language for Learning. There are specifications for creating routines that address behaviors as well as instructional content." To order your print or ebook copy, click here.

The NIFDI video in-service library has grown to include How to Correct Signal Violation Errors, the third volume of the Error Corrections Series. The video in-services are designed to support school leaders in charge of managing Direct Instruction (DI) implementations. Through the guidance of the videos, participants will view demonstrations and receive information by expert DI trainers. Participants will also practice the skills being taught and receive feedback from the facilitator, who will follow a facilitator's guide. In addition, these video in-services provide a model for district and building-level coaches, APIs (assistant principals of instruction) or building coordinators on how to sequence examples and focus on critical issues when training, as well as provide activities that promote mastery of the targeted skills.

These video in-services are very affordable ($39.95 each) and include all facilitator and participant material. For ordering information and a complete description of the contents of each in-service, including this latest in-service click here to visit the NIFDI Store.

ProjectFollowThroughVeterans This year marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Project Follow Through. In recognition of the anniversary, twenty-six of the original Direct Instruction Model developers, project directors and trainers gathered in Eugene, Oregon for a reunion. The two-day event was designed so each participant had an opportunity to share how they became involved in the project, what they are currently doing, and reflect on the triumphs and frustrations of being involved in the largest educational experiment in history. Over the course of this year, NIFDI News will feature stories of the people and events that were shared during that reunion. A high point of the meeting was a screening of a 1968 segment from Walter Cronkite's show "21st Century." Click here to view the video. The portion that talks about the Berieter-Engelmann preschool begins at time marker 9:45. We look forward to sharing more with you about the amazing people and events that took place in the early years of Direct Instruction.