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Our thoughtfully curated resources go beyond theory, delivering immediately actionable strategies that you can implement the next day. They are designed around the real challenges education communities are facing right now.

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Increase Access to Grade-Level Learning for Students With Disabilities

Case Study: The Power of Innovative Leadership

This case study demonstrates what’s possible when a leader has a vision for changing howstudents with disabilities experience school in their community.

Case Study: The Power of Innovative Leadership

Framework: The Cycle of Student Support

The Cycle of Student Support provides a process for educators and support staff to collaborate in service of providing access to grade-level learning

Framework: The Cycle of Student Support

Tool: Co-Teacher Planning Meeting Agenda

The Co-Teaching Planning Meeting Agenda is designed to establish a clear process for intentional planning that fully leverages each educator in service of providing access to high-quality instruction for students with disabilities.

Case Study

The Power of Innovative Leadership: Demonstrating what’s possible when a leader has a vision for change in their community

Our two-year partnership with RPS exemplifies a district's approach to effectively driving change in educator practice. Together, we shifted beliefs about what students with disabilities are capable of in core instruction through a co-constructed training series. The result was a significant increase in their ability to support all students in daily lessons find success; in some cases more than a 65% change.

How to use this resource:

Our two-year partnership with RPS exemplifies a district's approach to effectively driving change in educator practice. Together, we shifted beliefs about what students with disabilities are capable of in core instruction through a co-constructed training series. The result was a significant increase in theirability to support all students in daily lessons find success; in some cases more than a 65% change.

When we arrived in RPS, we realized that many students were being pulled from Tier 1 instruction for Tier 2 support, and the data reflected the impact of that loss. Our True North aligned with NDE’s Journey to Inclusion Project: all students must have equitable access to the full rigor of grade-level instruction. SPED Strategies helped us deliver that message and guide the transition.
Dr. Harley
Assistant Superintendent for Teaching & Learning

Framework

The Cycle of Student Support

The Cycle of Student support provides a process for schools to structure collaboration and planning when implementing grade-level curriculum. This takes place at two levels of instructional planning — the unit level to understand the goals and outcomes students are expected to demonstrate and the lesson level to consider meaningful adaptations aligned to what you know about individual and groups of students.

How to use this resource:

Share this resource with planning teams as they think about launching use of HQIM in the coming school year.

Consider what PL could be helpful for planning teams on use and application of the framework

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Accessible Physical Spaces

This checklist is designed to help educators create accessible physical spaces by organizing their environment and materials to maximize learning opportunities and promote engagement for every student. It can be used by leaders and educators to evaluate and plan for physical spaces in a school community.

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