With the extended school closures due to COVID-19 throughout the United States, students are having to learn in entirely new ways and facing challenges when it comes to learning during these unprecedented times. The Continuity of Learning resource database offers information, tools, and resources to help educators, parents and families, and related service providers meet the educational, behavioral, and emotional needs of children and youth with disabilities through remote and virtual learning.
The Coalition for Teacher Quality includes over 100 organizations, over a dozen of which are centered on students with disabilities. This series of briefs aims...
This report analyzes data on special education and STEM teacher shortages in Washington State and outlines a number of potential solutions at the school, district...
This interactive map provides examples of programs and initiatives across the country that aim to improve systems for attracting, preparing, and retaining educators.
This article offers various stakeholders, such as state education agencies (SEAs), school districts preparation programs, and teachers’ unions, specific considerations and actions they can take...
This framework provides guidance to state and local policymakers to systemically address educator shortages by supporting them to analyze challenges with attraction, preparation, and retention...
This resource collection highlights reports, briefs, videos and infographics produced by the American Institutes for Research on trends, projections and research on critical teacher shortages...
This webinar features speakers from various institutions, including OSEP grantees, and focuses on the preparation and retention of an effective early childhood workforce to serve...
Through this program, AACTE partners with the Mursion virtual simulation platform to enhance personnel preparation in AACTE-affiliated institutions of higher education through the use of...
This segment of AACTE's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion video series highlights three approaches that AACTE is taking to address the shortage of highly qualified special...
This report presents a toolkit of recommended strategies for growing and sustaining Grow Your Own programs in Washington as well as mini case studies of...
This report analyzes strategies, policies and incentives that have been used to address the attraction and retention of high-quality teachers in Utah in order to...
This program provides increased support from the Utah State Board of Education to special education directors and leaders to build effective and compliant special education...
The Texas Education Agency attempts to address teacher shortages and diversify its teacher workforce by offering competitive grants for districts to develop Grow Your Own...
This resource serves to enhance teacher preparation and retention in Tennessee by providing a framework for the development, implementation, and monitoring of partnerships between educator...
The RIPLS address the retention and development of personnel by providing specific descriptors to guide local and school leaders in improving professional learning for educators...
This collection of resources from the Ohio Department of Education illustrates a variety of strategies, considerations and program exemplars related to the attraction, preparation and...
This report summarizes responses to a series of focus groups of educators of color in various areas, including special educators, and case studies of the...
This blueprint from PDK International provides step-by-step guidance to local education agencies (LEAs) to establish grow-your-own programs aimed at recruiting students from their current high...
This webinar highlights how Educators Rising Connecticut, a high school-based grow-your-own, initially funded the program in one district and how they eventually made the program...
This resource library provides professional development materials, guidance documents, and video exemplars to support stakeholders in preparing and developing educators to better serve students with...
