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 webpage provides resources to support early childhood mental health and social and emotional development. Resources are organized for parents and caregivers; early care and...
Positive social and emotional development and learning in the early years provides an important foundation for lifelong learning and development, including mental health. This page...
Building and sustaining high-quality early intervention and preschool special education systems is a complex and ongoing process for state agencies. The purpose of the ECTA...
The STEMIE webpage provides early care and education systems and programs with resources to effectively engage young learners with disabilities in STEM exploration and learning...
The Statewide Implementation Guide is a process for implementing evidence-based practices statewide. The guide is based on results and evidence from the multi-year Pyramid Model...
The Indicators of High-Quality Inclusion are made up of four sets of indicators: 1) State Indicators; 2) Community Indicators; 3) Local Program Indicators; and 4)...
In this webinar series, DEC and ECTA host various experts in the field of early childhood special education and early intervention in disrupting the pervasive...
This webpage is a compilation of resources on racial equity. It includes information on data, early education anti-racism, language and terminology, organizational culture and change...
This webpage is a compilation of resources on expulsion and suspension in early childhood. The resources include federal guidance; resources from national centers and associations...
This toolkit includes information, guidance, and templates to assist Part C and Part B 619 program staff with creating or enhancing their data governance policies...
This toolkit contains information, guidance, and templates to help Part C and Part B 619 program staff build effective data teams and support conditions for...
The Children's Equity Project webpage provides critical information to early care and education systems and programs about the disparities within exclusionary discipline practices and strategies...
The SISEP website helps state and local leaders to support implementation of evidence-based practices and spread of those practices to schools and districts that can...
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 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."
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...