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.
This guide is intended to be used in conjunction with the practices guide: Supporting and Responding to Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs: Evidence-Based Practices...
This infographic document outlines how districts can examine discipline data, including exclusionary practices, among subgroups of students, to create "risk ratios."
This toolkit contains customizable protocols that states can use when working with their local education agencies (LEAs) to help them clearly define and document IDEA...
These Edit Check and Data Display Tools help states as they prepare their IDEA Section 618 data submissions. The tools identify potential business rule errors...
The IRIS Center develops and disseminates free, engaging online resources that help educators, leaders, and families use evidence-based instructional and behavioral practices to support the...
This training module introduces the Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity and describes how it supports the DBI process by helping provide explicit guidance on how to...
The purpose of this training is to gain foundational knowledge of how all behavior serves a purpose or function. This foundational knowledge is core to...
The purpose of this module is to gain foundational knowledge of what behavior is, how behavior is defined, and what environmental factors influence behavior. This...
This self-paced module examines the ways in which culture influences the daily interactions that occur across all classrooms and provides practice for enhancing culturally responsive...
This self-paced module addresses the importance of engaging the families of students with disabilities in their child’s education. It highlights some of the key factors...
This self-paced module helps teachers understand second language acquisition, the importance of academic English, and instructional practices that will enhance learning for English Learners.
This self-paced module offers a broad overview of how diversity (i.e., culture, language, exceptionality, and socioeconomic status) affects learning and how teachers can better meet...
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has developed this voluntary Child Find Self-Assessment (CFSA) as a tool for State IDEA Part C programs to...
This Toolkit was designed to provide evaluation resources for grantees of OSEP's Personnel Development Program, but it contains useful information for other grantees as well...
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...
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 program provides increased support from the Utah State Board of Education to special education directors and leaders to build effective and compliant special education...
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...