The National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) recently developed a handout for parents, community members and other non-educators explaining why Direct Instruction (DI) is effective. Schools and teachers may find this handout particularly helpful in showing parents some of the rationale behind the programs and answering some of the basic questions that arise about what DI is and why it works.

Download the handout here.

The 2012 edition of Connecting Math Concepts: Comprehensive Edition (CMCCE) provides a number of improvements to the previous edition of CMCCE. Most instructional strategies are the same as those of the earlier editions; however, the procedures for teaching these strategies have been greatly modified to address problems in presentation of the content to serve at-risk students more effectively. The 2012 edition of CMCCE has also been revised on the basis of field-testing.

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Do you use our Understanding US History Pre-Program? If you do, you might be interested in our new interactive whiteboard display file that includes the sentences from the sentence list and the program chart in a file format compatible with interactive whiteboards. The file is free for download and for classroom use. Download it here.

You can now view/download a PDF that outlines 2012 Connecting Math Concepts: Comprehensive Edition's correlation with the Common Core State Standards!

Find and view this document in 2 easy steps! Here's how:

1. Go to McGraw-Hill's website.
2. Click on the program level (currently Levels A, B and C are available) under the “Common Core State Standards” section of the list on the right hand-side of the page.