This article describes an innovative teaching model designed to impact students at risk with the cooperative efforts of regular and special education in Grades K-3. Evaluation outcomes are presented that show the model has a positive effect on individual student performance, total building progress as measured by curriculum based measurement, special education referrals, and attitudes of participating teachers.
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