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A look at how St. Angela Merici School partnered with our team to build a professional learning experience designed around their specific school community, and what changed because of it.

Belinda Baker brings 38 years of early childhood experience to SPED Strategies' professional learning work. This piece explores her approach to educator training and the results from a recent partnership with a large Louisiana school district serving 170 pre-K classrooms.

A look at how our team designs and delivers customized professional learning; and the impact across real engagements in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Massachusetts over the past year.

Professional learning only works when it's built around the people in the room. This past school year, our team delivered over 100 customized engagements, each one designed from the ground up around the specific needs, context, and challenges of the educators involved. Read more to learn about what that process looks like, and why it makes a difference.

The second installment in a two-part series on SPED Strategies' Materials Matter for All pilot with the Nebraska Department of Education, sharing endline survey results from a three-day professional learning series.

A pilot professional learning series designed with the Nebraska Department of Education showed that targeted, curriculum-embedded training can dramatically improve special education teachers' readiness to use high-quality instructional materials — with Tier 1 readiness jumping 58 percentage points among participants.

We have been partnering with the Academy of Collaborative Education in Monroe, LA on an instructional audit and professional learning series focused on students with ASD. Here's what we found, and where the work went from there.

Together with the Nebraska Department of Education we are putting a new theory to the test: Can a small dose of the right professional learning support moving the needle for students with disabilities? The Materials Matter for All pilot dives deep into the specific curricula teachers are already using, fitting into packed schedules while delivering results that matter.

See how we are supporting building leader coaching across four Northwest Arkansas districts — Farmington, Huntsville, Prairie Grove, and Pea Ridge — with a customized, goal-driven approach to accessible education.

Learn how we partnered with North Platte Public Schools in Nebraska to align accessible education practices across six different buildings through leadership coaching, professional learning, and a district-developed walk-through tool.

Discover how we collaborated with Union Parish School District to develop asynchronous learning modules that give Louisiana teachers flexible access to accessbile education training — without sacrificing quality or impact.

Over the past two weeks, we've shared how our partnership with Ralston Public Schools evolved from initial district-wide sessions with mixed reviews to a transformative collaboration with exceptional results. This final week, we'll share the remarkable results of this collaborative approach, including a 65% increase in staff confidence across key metrics for supporting students with disabilities, and some changes that even surprised us.

Last week, we explored how our partnership with Ralston Public Schools began with mixed results but evolved into meaningful collaboration. This week, we'll dive into the pivotal moment when district leadership took those early learnings and transformed them into a unifying vision—one that would align every community member around their shared commitment to supporting every student's success.

Over the next two weeks, we'll share exactly how our partnership with Ralston Public Schools unfolded, from initial district-wide sessions that received mixed reviews to an intentional collaboration that achieved a 65% increase in staff confidence across key metrics for supporting students with disabilities.