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The goal of the Laboratory for Instructional Consultation Teams (Lab for IC Teams) is to support the development, implementation and maintenance of effective instructional and intervention practices in school districts in Maryland and around the nation. The Lab for IC Teams addresses the needs of partner school systems in their attempts to create and maintain early intervention and school reform efforts. The Lab for IC Teams provides three interrelated services to participating school districts: Training, Technical Assistance, and Evaluation.

• Training: The goal of the training component of the Lab for IC Teams is to develop critical skills of educational professionals to increase each district's internal capacity to promote and maintain school improvement. A comprehensive and empirically based training program is available to develop the necessary skills that school professionals require in order to support the development of collaborative, systematic problem-solving teams. Training is delivered using a continuum of methods including didactic presentation in interactive formats and through distance learning technology. The program includes comprehensive training for school-based teams in the Instructional Consultation Team model, leadership programs for school district professionals designated to provide on-site facilitation of school-based teams, and access to support materials including training manuals, published texts, change agent training modules and necessary documentation forms.

• Technical Assistance: The goal of the technical assistance component is to support professionals and school districts that have participated in the training component in their efforts to initiate, implement and institutionalize school reform and alternative support efforts. The Lab for IC Teams offers technical support to school systems that have begun the process of developing IC Teams. The Lab for IC Teams coordinates on-site assistance internet-based supports so that professionals from participating school systems can collaborate with professionals from the Laboratory and from other districts to learn and share knowledge of effective IC Team practices.

• Evaluation: The goal of the evaluation component is to research the efficacy of early intervention and reform efforts in participating districts and to disseminate current research of best practices. The Lab for IC Teams supports the systematic evaluation of critical components of the IC Team model including changes in professional functioning, implementation, and outcomes. Outcomes to be researched include: changes in student achievement and behavior, changes in teaching practices, changes in referral patterns for specialized services, changes in school culture/ climate and other areas identified by participating school districts. The Lab for IC Teams disseminates results of this and other relevant research to participating districts. In addition, the Lab for IC Teams offers consultation to districts in their own efforts to formulate and conduct program evaluation at the local level.
  
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