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COVID-19 Guidance for IDEA Programs: A Self-Assessment Checklist for Local Education Agencies (LEAs)
COVID-19 Policy Guidance
State education agencies across the country must ensure that their guidance on service provision during the pandemic is consistent with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and...
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Guidance
State Spotlight: How Texas Used Coaching to Impact Outcomes
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching
This state spotlight focuses on Texas’s implementation effort to improve teacher practice and student outcomes, by embedding and sustaining an effective coaching framework across the state. Of...
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State Spotlight
Participating in Virtual Stakeholder Meetings: Five Considerations
Stakeholder Engagement
Participating in virtual stakeholder meetings opens doors to connect and engage with broader groups more frequently and in a more flexible manner, but it can also add additional challenges and...
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Brief
Participant Checklist for Virtual Meetings
Stakeholder Engagement
Participating in virtual stakeholder meetings opens doors to connect and engage with broader groups more frequently and in a more flexible manner, but it can also pose challenges. To effectively...
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Tools
A State Guide on Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Noncompliance in Accordance with IDEA Requirements
General Supervision, Infrastructure Development > Local Education Agency Capacity, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity, Policy > IDEA
This guide for Part C lead agencies (LAs) and and state education agencies (SEAs) is based on the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Memo 09-02: Reporting on Correction of Noncompliance in...
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Guidance
A State Guide on Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Noncompliance with IDEA Requirements
General Supervision, Infrastructure Development > Local Education Agency Capacity, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity
This is a visual representation of the expected actions for states related to identifying, requiring and verifying correction of, and reporting noncompliance. Detailed descriptions and additional...
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Guidance
A State Guide to Establishing a Statewide System of Accountability and Support to Improve Results and Functional Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
Evaluation > Infrastructure Changes, General Supervision, Infrastructure Development > Local Education Agency Capacity, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity
Ensuring that local education agencies (LEAs) meet IDEA requirements and improve student outcomes requires a strong, results-driven state accountability system aligned with a robust statewide...
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Guidance
Family Engagement: Collaborating with Families of Students with Disabilities
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Support for Families
Created by the IRIS Center, this module—a revision of Collaborating with Families, which was originally developed in cooperation with the PACER Center—addresses the importance of engaging the...
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Training Module
How can I help my elementary child stay focused during online learning?
Distance Learning > Support for Families
This Parent Tip Sheet created by the IRIS Center offers ideas for helping elementary aged children to stay focused during online learning. January 2021
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Guidance
Virtual Lesson Example: Writing Lesson
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Support for Families
This lesson provides a structure for a writing intervention with examples of asynchronous and synchronous virtual delivery. The lesson is informed by the Simple View of Writing (Berninger &...
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Tools
Virtual Lesson Example: Addition Fact Strategies
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
These resources were created by Patricia Maxwell from Coventry Public Schools in Rhode Island to help with virtual mathematics instruction and intervention. The long-term goal is for students to...
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Tools
Virtual Lesson Example: Problem Solving for Students with Disabilities
Distance Learning > How to Provide Distance Learning, Distance Learning > Instructional Resources
This activity was developed by Tammy Moran a special education teacher in Ferris Independent School District. In this lesson, she illustrates the use of the Understand-Plan-Solve-Evaluate (UPSE)...
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Tools