AIMSweb® is a scientifically based, formative assessment system that 'informs' the teaching and learning process by providing continuous student performance data and reporting improvement to parents, teachers, and administrators to enable evidence-based evaluation and data-driven instruction.

AIMSweb uses Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) - standardized measures of basic skills - including reading, early literacy, early numeracy, mathematics, spelling, and written expression. CBM is an approved set of testing practices based on over 25 years of federally funded research and has been reviewed as meeting professional assessment standards by the Reading First Assessment Committee and the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring.

Orange County Special Education uses AIMSweb to assess instruction, monitor AYP, and to assist in data driven instructional changes.

Direct Instruction is a teacher-directed instructional method of carefully orchestrated lessons where nothing is left to chance. Everything is taught through demonstration and action and practiced until it is fully understood and each child can apply it.

The Wilson Reading System is a research-based reading and writing program. It is a complete curriculum for teaching decoding and encoding (spelling) beginning with phoneme segmentation. WRS directly teaches the structure of words in the English language so that students master the coding system for reading and spelling. Unlike other programs that overwhelm the student with rules, the language system of English is presented in a systematic and cumulative manner so that it is manageable. It provides an organized, sequential system with extensive controlled text to help teachers implement a multisensory structured language program.

From the beginning steps of the program, it also includes sight word instruction, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development and comprehension. Throughout the program, a ten part lesson plan, designed to be very interactive between teacher and student, is followed. The lessons progress from easier to more challenging tasks for decoding and then spelling.