This collection of self-paced courses covers the legal foundations of laws supporting students with disabilities. The collection includes courses that explain the difference between civil rights and funding laws, different laws impacting students with disabilities including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the relationship between state and federal laws, primary sources of the law in the United States, the impact of the role and levels of the adjudicative source of law, the history of IDEA, the major parts of IDEA, and more.
This course focuses on teaching social behavior. It is part of a series covering instructional practices. These practices were identified through an extensive, systematic meta-analysis* of the high-leverage practices for students with disabilities. Those who enroll in this interactive course will be able to do the following:
This collection of self-paced courses provides foundational information about the individualized education program (IEP), describes the role of the IEP in developing and implementing high-quality educational programming that meets procedural, substantive, and implementation requirements and ensures that students with disabilities have access to free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment as outlined by IDEA, highlights specific components of the IEP (e.g., goals, present levels statement, services and aids). Specific courses focus on critical parts of the IEP (e.
Did you see the recent EdWeek article, Can AI Write a Good IEP? What Special Education Experts Say? PROGRESS Center Director Dr. Tessie Bailey and Lindsey Jones, a PROGRESS Center advisor and chief executive officer of CAST, were featured in the article. The article shares opportunities and limitations of using AI to write Good IEPs. As Dr.