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.
Family participation is an essential feature of the development and implementation of high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities. Families bring important information related to...
This infographic document outlines how districts can examine discipline data, including exclusionary practices, among subgroups of students, to create "risk ratios."
The Excel spreadsheet application and user's guide are tools to aid states in their assessment of racial/ ethnic disproportionality. The spreadsheet application calculates several disproportionality...
The Significant Disproportionality Calculator is a spreadsheet application that the IDEA Data Center (IDC) created to help states analyze their data, make determinations of significant...
States and LEAs must report five types of disciplinary removals for children and youth with disabilities. The EDFacts IDEA Discipline Data Infographic visualizes the information...
Educational systems cannot be considered effective until they are effective for all student groups. PBIS provides an ideal framework for increasing equity in student outcomes...
This self-paced module offers an overview of young children who are dual language learners. Further, it highlights the importance of maintaining children and families’ home...
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...
IDC’s Success Gaps Toolkit outlines a process that district and school teams can use to identify and address discipline disparities revealed through the state’s accountability...
This document outlines the Child Find Self-Assessment best practices (BPs). This section includes content that is not required by the IDEA but can help Part...
The Child Find Self-Assessment (CFSA) is a voluntary toolkit to help state IDEA Part C programs strengthen their child find systems, with the goal of...
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...
States submit their State Performance Plan (SPP)/Annual Performance Report (APR) electronically through the EDFacts Metadata and Process System (EMAPS) following guidance in this memo.
This page lists resources developed by IDC and IDC partners on the topic of disproportionality, including white papers, presentations, rubrics and other tools.
This national collaboration, led by a task force of 15 national organizations, aims to empower the professions of the early childhood workforce by establishing a...
This resource highlights the impact of Grow Your Own programs on overcoming barriers that lead to critical teacher shortages and provides State exemplars of successful...
This interactive map highlights factors that reflect and impact teacher supply and attrition in each of the 50 States, focusing on indicators such as teacher...
Recruiting Washington Teachers is a teacher academy program that aims to support high school students to pursue teaching careers in State-identified shortage areas, including special...
