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Louisiana Assistive Technology Initiative
The mission of the Louisiana Assistive Technology Initiative (LATI) is to provide leadership and support to local education agencies and families in the development and implementation of assistive technology services that will have meaningful application for the educational, social, recreational, vocational, and developmental experiences of students with disabilities.
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| Data-Based Decision Making |
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Center on Progress Monitoring
We we are a national technical assistance and dissemination center dedicated to the implementation of scientifically based student progress monitoring.
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National Implementation Research Network
The mission of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) is to close the gap between science and service by improving the science and practice of implementation in relation to evidence-based programs and practices.
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West-Ed
A nonprofit research, development, and service agency, WestEd enhances and increases education and human development within schools, families, and communities.
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| Disproportionality |
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NCCRESt
NCCRESt provides technical assistance and professional development to close the achievement gap between students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their peers, and reduce inappropriate referrals to special education.
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NCCREST Tools on Disproportionality
The tools posted at the NCCREST website are self-study/self-assessment resources from several states.
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Teaching Tolerance
Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. To us, tolerance is an ethic.
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Truth in Labeling
NEA views disproportionality as an important issue to address in any local or state eff orts aimed at closing the gaps in student achievement.
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| Family Engagement |
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FINE
The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) is a national network of over 8,000 people who are interested in promoting strong partnerships between children's educators, their families, and their communities.
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LA PEN
LAPEN works to advance the field of parenting education and to provide leadership and infrastructure to support Louisiana’s parent educators from every field.
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LA PIRC - Louisiana Parent Information and Resource Center
Louisiana PROMISE Parent Information & Resource Centers (Louisiana PROMISE / PIRC) are funded by the United States Department of Education and administered by Volunteers of America of North Louisiana. Louisiana PROMISE / PIRC promotes the educational success of children by offering services to Louisiana parents and educators.
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LA PTIC - Louisiana Parent Training and Information Center
Louisiana Parent Training and Information Center provides information, referral, and assistance to parents of children with disabilities, students with disabilities, educators, and other professionals.
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Nation al Institute for Urban School Improvement
The Family School Linkages (FSL) Project of the National Institute for Urban School Improvement seeks to work together with schools and families to assist schools to think about and improve their relationships with all the families of their students.
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National Coalition for Family Participation in Education
At NCPIE, our mission is simple: to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people.
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
We are the center that provides information to the nation on:
disabilities in children and youth;
programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities;
IDEA, the nation's special education law;
No Child Left Behind, the nation's general education law; and
research-based information on effective practices for children with disabilities.
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Parent Leadershipo Training Institute
The Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI)SM helps parents become leading advocates for children. It is designed by the American Leadership Forum, Leadership Greater Hartford, and the Connecticut Commission on Children.
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Parent Universtiy
Our Parent University classes are very powerful in creating new possibilities
for parents and families; not just more, better or different of the traditional parenting type class.
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Parents as Teachers
The National Center drives that philosophy, or mission, through four program areas: Born to Learn, Professional Development, Meld and Advocacy. All of these program areas work through a strong network of state leaders and partners.
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Pyramid Community Parent Resource Center
The Pyramid Community Parent Resource Center was established in 1991 by parents of children with disabilities. The program is designed to support, assist and provide expertise to parents in traditionally underserved areas of New Orleans.
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Read Write Think
Mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
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SEDL Toolkit: Title I Parental Involvement
In this toolkit, SEDL provides detailed explanations of the Title I, Part A parental involvement provisions as well as thirty-three tools to assist state departments of education, districts, and schools in meeting these requirements.
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| Inclusive Practices |
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Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. UDL provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all.
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Marilyn Friend
This forum is a way to make a contribution to help educators better meet the needs of their students.
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NUISI
We hope this urban school site will help you deepen your understanding of the complexities that urban families and their children face as they strive for access to high quality, results-oriented education.
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| Positive Behavior Support |
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Association for Positive Behavior Support (APBS)
The Association for Positive Behavior Support (APBS) is an international organization dedicated to promoting research-based strategies that combine applied behavior analysis and biomedical science with person-centered values and systems change to increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors.
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Louisiana Positive Behavior Support
The Louisiana Positive Behavior Support website for educators with Louisiana examples of PBS.
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National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
The OSEP-funded National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports was established to address the behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning and social development of students. The Center provides capacity-building information and technical support about behavioral systems to assist states and districts in the design of effective schools.
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| Professional Resources |
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Center on Instruction
Welcome to the Center on Instruction, your gateway to a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning.
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ED PUBS
The ED Pubs web site is intended to help you identify and order U.S. Department of Education products. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Edweek
We are a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Washington, D.C. Our primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education.
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Institute of Educational Sciences
The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 established a new organization within the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of Education Sciences. Our mission is to provide rigorous evidence on which to ground education practice and policy. By identifying what works, what doesn’t, and why, we intend to improve the outcomes of education for all students, particularly those at risk of failure.
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Learning Port
National Online Library of Professional Development Resources Compiled to Help Bridge Research, Policy and Practice.
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SEDL - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
SEDL’s primary efforts are in five program areas: improving school performance, strengthening teaching and learning in content areas, integrating technology into teaching and learning, involving family and community in student learning, and connecting disability research to practice. Work in these areas concentrates on K–16 education and on underserved students, particularly those living in poverty.
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Teacher Quarterly
The California Council on the Education of Teachers is a non-profit organization devoted to stimulating the improvement of the pre-service and in-service education of teachers and administrators.
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What Works Clearinghouse
A central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education.
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| Response to Intervention |
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AIMSWEB
As a data management system, AIMSWeb® facilitates the organization of student, classroom, school, and district level benchmark and progress monitoring data.
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Florida RTI
The Florida Response to Intervention (RtI) website provides a central, comprehensive location for Florida-specific information and resources that promote schoolwide practices to ensure highest possible student achievement in both academic and behavioral pursuits.
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Intervention Central
Intervention Central is committed to the goal of making quality Response-to-Intervention resources available to educators at no cost--especially in these times of tight school budgets.
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iSTEEP
STEEP - 1) Identify or develop practices that have scientific merit. 2) Develop materials that make the practices "doable" and within reach of all types of schools. 3) Provide implementation services
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Joe Witt
This is Joe Witt's site which is dedicated to proven practices and the focus is on sharing resources and information related to Response to Intervention (RTI), Instruction, and progress monitoring.
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National Center on Response to Intervention
The Center’s mission is to provide technical assistance to states and districts and building the capacity of states to assist districts in implementing proven models for RTI/EIS.
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PBIS
The OSEP-funded National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports was established to address the behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning and social development of students.
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READ 180
Read 180 software provides struggling readers with intensive, differentiated skills practice, and instruction.
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RTI Action Network
The RTI Action Network is dedicated to the effective implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) in school districts nationwide. Our goal is to guide educators and families in the large-scale implementation of RTI so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students – including those with learning disabilities – are identified early and receive the necessary supports to be successful.
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| School Reform |
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Project Achieve
Project ACHIEVE is an innovative school reform and school effectiveness program whose ultimate goal is to help design and implement effective school and schooling processes that maximize the academic and social/emotional/behavioral progress and achievement of all students.
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Tool Helps Communities Build a Support System for School Reform
A new tool from the Center for School and Community Services and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform has been designed to support district leaders, educators, administrators, community stakeholders, parents and students in their efforts to reform high schools.
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Using a Spectrum of Staff Development Activities to Support Inclusion
Every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so every student achieves. Read more about NSDC's purpose and what it means for educators and schools.
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| Special Education |
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OSEP
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts.
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The Arc
The Arc is the world’s largest community based organization of and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
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