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OSEP will hold its Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference virtually July 19 – 22, 2021. This year’s conference will combine OSEP’s bi-annual Leadership and Project Directors’ conferences. Sessions that are applicable to Leadership Conference and Project Directors’ Conference audiences will be offered. Registration will be opening soon! To learn more about the conference CLICK HERE
This document offers a variety of research and policy reviews as well as resource guides related to the topic of teacher employment and retention through a policy lens.
This report highlights the overwhelming need for each State to building the education work force that is based on their State's specific needs.
These reports highlight essential questions and policy options to support State legislators considering policies to recruit, prepare and retain effective teachers.
NCPSSERS provides a dialogue guide for individuals seeking to discuss personnel shortages for students with disabilities with various stakeholders, including policymakers, institutes of higher education and school administrators.
This resource collection provides reports and data about the special education teacher and related service provider shortage.
This report offers a framework for States, districts, and preparation programs to strategize ways to address financial barriers in implementing residency programs and improve their financial stability over time. This framework also includes accompanying webinars, modeling tools, and guidance documents.
This report offers recommendations for State and local policymakers to address policies related to teacher residencies in four areas: partnership and stakeholder collaboration, recruitment and selection, coaching and feedback, and assessment and evaluation. Within each of these areas, NCTR highlights case studies of effective residency programs and districts.
This report highlights five diverse educator preparation programs that take innovative approaches to special education teacher certification.
This page provides prospective and practicing school psychologists with information on credentialing and continuing education agency requirements and examines whether each State accepts a Nationally Certified School Psychologist as an alternative route and provides links to further information on its alignment with State credentialing requirements.
This resource guide provides specific recommendations for how best to address the shortages in school psychology and recruit effective personnel to serve students at all levels.
This research summary explores the school psychologist shortage, emphasizing the regional and differences in which these shortages take place and preparation program availability.
These two pages support attracting and preparing high-quality school psychologists by offering a variety of resources, preparation program information and licensing information to prospective school psychology candidates.
This project aims to leverage current practitioners in order to expose high school students and undergraduates, especially those from diverse backgrounds, to school psychology as a career.
This process will help connect potentially qualified graduate student candidates with school psychology programs that have remaining slots for incoming students in late spring through summer.