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 document is designed to guide the Program Leadership Team around considerations for supporting children, families, and staff as they return to the program. The...
As early childhood programs work on re-opening, they can use these online communication and phone scripts to help guide your conversations with families.
Here are tips and ideas for helping children identify emotions when your face, your most expressive feature, is covered by a mask. Use these strategies...
Use this tip sheet to help practitioners of infants and toddlers intentionally plan and think about how to reconnect, help children transition back to the...
The current pandemic has resulted in the need for educators and service providers to find ways to deliver services remotely; yet students and communities have...
STEP, the Parent Training and Information Center in Tennessee released an easy-to-use Return to School Planning Guide to help families prepare for how their children...
This video and tip sheets provide an example and strategies for how educators can implement the NCII reading and mathematics sample lessons through virtual learning...
This resource was developed by a coalition of projects that are funded by the Office of Special Education Programs in response to requests from state...
This Voices From the Field piece includes a discussion with Laura Hamby and Ann Jolly from the Exceptional Children department in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools about how...
In this webinar, Susan Barrett highlights the challenges presented by the current context and emphasizes the importance of supporting the social and emotional needs of...
This guide is designed primarily for use by district teams seeking to reduce racial and ethnic disproportionality in school discipline, regardless of whether they are...
Students’ emotions may be running high and low with distance learning. This resource offers strategies and tools to help students and their families communicate and...
Learning in quarantine is emotional work! Here are some strategies and tools to help families and their children communicate and manage emotions during this time...
This overview is intended to communicate a framework for supporting all students (including those with significant cognitive disabilities) to actively engage with classmates, learn grade-level...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has deeply impacted early childhood programs, children and families, and their communities. This resource, jointly created by the Office of...
Replacing a virtual conference, there will be three symposia held, each with three components. The first component will be pre-work materials posted online by OSEP...
This is a presentation given by Melissa Raspa and Cornelia Taylor of the Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center during the Conference on Research Innovations in...
As a blueprint for authentic engagement, Leading by Convening, developed by the IDEA Partnership, provides leaders with hands on tools to engage stakeholders and maximize...
This is a presentation by Melanie Lemoine and Monica Ballay, from the 2010 OSEP Project Directors’ Conference. The presentation provides an overview of research conducted...