Academic Intervention Services (AIS)

District 75 Academic Intervention Services (AIS) offers additional instructional strategies and tools above and beyond the core curriculum and IEP mandates that are provided to help students in all grades who are struggling academically and behaviorally. AIS will support students developing and practicing strategies that enable them to connect what they know with what they are reading, make predictions about what they will learn from the reading, ask questions about what they do not understand, identify important ideas from the text, summarize those ideas and use strategies when encountering text they don’t understand. In math, we strive to develop students’ conceptual, computational and problem-solving strategies. The interventions will foster development of communication skills so that students can articulate what strategies and steps they utilized for problem solving, including access to technology.

Behavioral and social/emotional problems that impact negatively on academic performance will be addressed through positive behavior support interventions and support of related services. Middle and high school students will receive targeted academic intervention such as credit recovery, attendance improvement, guidance services that include study skills and goal setting. 

For our students aged 14-21 in alternate assessment we provide opportunities for acquiring knowledge of career possibilities to foster the connection between what they learn in school and what exists in the “real world.”  Functional skill development will be integrated into academic content areas to increase usability and functionality. Our goal is to build competence in functional academics (e.g., reading, math, writing, problem solving) and transition (e.g., money management, personal–social, career awareness, self-advocacy, goal setting) skills; participation in a transition planning process that promotes self-determination and self-regulation.

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