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.
Families can use this resource to make a family schedule, choose family expectations, and make a plan to teach, remind, reward, and respond to behavior...
In this presentation from the 2023 OSEP Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference, presenters provide an example of a student’s use of the tool, share how...
In this presentation, practitioners will learn about how Charting the LifeCourse, a valuable person-centered planning tool, can enhance a student's transition plan in school and...
These engagement guides invite leading experts to share their expertise on implementing these nine educational interventions to promote meaningful engagement and relationships among students with...
Belonging is experienced when students are present, invited, welcomed, known, accepted, involved, supported, heard, befriended, and needed. This resource provides reflection questions to assist practitioners...
School should be a place of belonging for each and every student. Belonging is easy to affirm, but much harder to define. This research-based resource...
This fact sheet illustrates ways to improve communication and collaboration between schools and families to support students’ needs. Strategies include engaging families in decision-making processes...
Bullying, agression, non-compliance and other concerning behaviors present educators with significant, immediate challenges in supporting students. Rather than waiting for these behaviors to occur and...
Removing students from the classroom and placing them in remote instruction for their behavior is an emerging form of discipline (Jones, 2020). The purpose of...
The purpose of this guide is to provide leadership teams with guidance for implementing coaching within their programs. Leadership teams must develop a plan for...
This brief provides considerations for conducting and implementing functional behavior assessments (FBAs) and behavior intervention plans (BIPs) using virtual technology.
This guide highlights 5 key practices for teachers and families to support all students, including students with disabilities, at school and home. For each practice...
Positive and consistent behavioral supports are needed by all students and, for some students, are absolutely vital to support meaningful engagement in academics. Distance learning...
This brief adapts the suggestions and strategies provided in Improving Attendance and Reducing Chronic Absenteeism to guide practice during remote instruction.
Various agencies at several levels of government are involved with providing services to youth with disabilities in correctional facilities and planning for their reentry into...
Youth with disabilities are disproportionately represented within correctional facilities, with nearly four times as many students requiring special education and related services in the adjudicated...
Overview and key principles of practice as they relate to facility-wide practices for juveline justice. Historically, juvenile correctional facilities have operated under a deficit- or...
Promoting family involvement of youth with disabilities in juvenile corrections is critical to improving educational outcomes, providing successful transition and reentry into homes and communities...