Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) Field User Guides
The SDI Field User Guides are intended to be a bridge between existing student support plans and the instructional content available within the High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) suite of resources from TEA.
Each section of the document provides ways to connect HQIM to student plans and leverage the tools found in the HQIM resource. This document provides multiple ways to approach and plan for the provision of SDI and presents multiple lenses through which users can examine the connections between HQIM tools and the components of SDI.
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Specially Designed instruction (SDI) Field User Guide
Purpose and Functionality
Enhancing Instruction for Students

Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committees consider data on the impact of a student’s disability, their strengths, and their needs. The ARD committee then develops SDI for each student.
While each need is different, some instructional strategies and practices can be leveraged more frequently and in more ways than others. These Field User Guides are created for each of the instructional materials provided through Texas Home Learning created by the Texas Education Agency. The Field User Guides incorporate both specially designed instruction and the embedded tools and strategies contained in each high quality instructional resource.
Connecting Strategies and Resources

These Field User Guides provide examples of how to support students in content areas, sample students, prerequisite teaching strategies, and more. The guides also include examples of collaboration between professionals to support student growth and provide connections to the core content in order to provide the most robust instruction using each resource.
Empower for Progress

An additional intended impact these documents have is to provide educators the tangible examples and connections that can be accessed, implemented, or personalized depending on the specific high quality instructional content platform. This will allow for improved instruction and specialization and for learning experiences to be as unique as the student.
Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) Field User Guides