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Developing Collaborative Partnerships With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families During the IEP Process
Content type: Journal Article
Family participation in the special education process has been federally mandated for 40 years, and educators recognize that effective collaboration with their students’ families leads to improved academic and social outcomes for students. However, while...
Father-Friendly Classrooms: Making a Space for Dads of Children With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
In this article, we summarize the critical issues and provide practical strategies to involving fathers of students with disabilities in the educational process. Research suggests that educators need to take special and deliberate steps to assure that...
Big Ideas in Special Education: Specially Designed Instruction, High-Leverage Practices, Explicit Instruction, and Intensive Instruction
Content type: Journal Article
The mandate to provide specially designed instruction to support the learning and behavioral needs of students with disabilities is at the core of special education. As the field of special education has evolved, a proliferation of terms has been...
Manifestation Determinations: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Best Practices
Content type: Journal Article
Students with disabilities are overrepresented within the population of students suspended or expelled from school. When a student with a disability faces an expulsion or suspension equaling more than 10 days, a manifestation determination review (MDR)...
How (and Why) to Write for TEACHING Exceptional Children
Content type: Journal Article
Overview of how to develop a manuscript for TEC.
Teachers’ Use of Video Self-Monitoring to Improve Delivery of Effective Teaching Practices
Content type: Journal Article
Delivering high quality instruction grounded in evidence-based practice is a critical responsibility of special education teachers. One challenge for teachers is determining if they are implementing instructional strategies with fidelity. A strategy that...
Promoting College and Career Readiness: Practical Strategies for the Classroom
Content type: Journal Article
With the recent legislative emphasis on college and career readiness (CCR) for all students and the continued poor post-school outcomes for students with disabilities, it is important for educators to have effective and practical instructional strategies...
Using Performance Feedback to Increase Special Education Teachers’ Use of Effective Practices
Content type: Journal Article
To support teachers in the process of increasing their use of effective practices, we suggest a six-step procedure using performance feedback: Step 1: select an instructional practice; Step 2: identify critical components; Step 3: identify a colleague to...
Building Collaborative Relationships With Parents: A Checklist for Promoting Success
Content type: Journal Article
Parents have a significant impact on their child’s development. Parent coaching has shown to be effective to increase parent’s knowledge of their child’s language development, enhance their ability to teach their child language and social communication...
Improving Reading Comprehension of Informational Text: Text Structure Instruction for Students With or At Risk for Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
The ability to comprehend informational texts is critical to students’ academic success in a range of content areas. However, informational texts pose challenges to the reading comprehension of adolescents with or at-risk for learning disabilities (LD)...