Special Education

NCCTQ Connection - The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ) is dedicated to providing current strategies and research-based practice and policy to assist teacher preparation programs as they evolve to meet the needs of new teachers. Realizing a need to support teachers of general education who are preparing to teach students with disabilities as well as special education teachers who coteach in general education classrooms, NCCTQ has developed the NCCTQ Connection. This new online resource is designed to support educators through content-rich resources and an online discussion forum.
http://www.ncctq.org/connection/

The Access Center…Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
The Access Center is a national technical assistance (TA) center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. Our mission is to improve educational outcomes for elementary and middle school students with disabilities.
http://www.k8accesscenter.org/index.php

Standards-Based IEPs
Educating Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms: A Summary of the Research …..Alaska Inclusion
Western Regional Resource Center (WRRC), January, 2006 We hear and read a lot about school improvement, school reform and restructuring. However, educators still have many questions about how to provide a quality education for students with disabilities in school. This document shares current research on achievement and successful practices, related to educating students with disabilities in inclusive general education classrooms. http://www.rrfcnetwork.org/content/view/242/47/

Strategies to Improve Access to the General Education Curriculum
This highly useful chart addresses the differing mediums in which access can be achieved, including instructional methods and practices, materials and media, supports and accommodations, and assessment - with strategies and applications to specific content areas.
http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/curricular_materials.asp

Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention [K-12] - NRCLD developed this kit to help schools and districts navigate changes related to specific learning disability (SLD) determination and responsiveness to intervention (RTI). Included in the kit is general information on SLD determination and RTI, tools for getting started, PowerPoint presentations, and resources for parents. In particular, the School-Based RTI Practices section provides information from elementary schools around the country that are implementing RTI. Topics include school-wide screening, progress monitoring, tiered service delivery models, data-based decision-making, parent involvement, and fidelity of implementation.
The kit is available for download at: http://www.nrcld.org/resource_kit/

The Access Center [K-8] - The Access Center is a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. Its mission is to improve educational outcomes for elementary and middle school students with disabilities. They are dedicated to building the capacity of TA systems, States, districts, and schools, to help students with disabilities learn from the general education curriculum.
http://www.k8accesscenter.org

Center on Instruction: Grades K-12 Materials – resources for special education
http://www.centeroninstruction.org/resources.cfm?category=specialEd&subcategory=&grade_start=&grade_end=

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs’ (OSEP’s) IDEA website: Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004 – information about grants and contracts, financial aid, research and statistics, programs, and policy.
http://idea.ed.gov/explore/home