Purpose
Educators Forward aims to improve outcomes for students with disabilities by increasing the number of well-qualified, fully certified special educators and expand the ability of administrators to serve as instructional leaders who create an equity-based, cooperative, and inclusive environment. through a multilevel system of personnel development supports. ALL special educators will have access to a module-based toolkit and social media campaign (7,000 participants); a TARGETED group of special educators and leaders (1,590 participants) will participate in an induction program; and the INTENSIVE level of support will install a teacher residency program in fifteen mid-sized districts (150 participants).
Educators Forward brings together national and state organizations to use implementation science to design, implement, manage, scale, and evaluate a multilevel system of support for special educators. Through all levels of support, the project emphasizes training, coaching, and fidelity assessment related to High Leverage Practices. The project will comprehensively assess (formative and summative) at universal, targeted, and intensive levels of support. The project will use a nonequivalent post-only control group design to measure impact on teacher retention and will use an interrupted time-series design with matched control group to measure impact on student outcomes.
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2024 Wyoming
The purpose of the Wyoming SPDG is to reform the personnel development system to increase alignment among state initiatives and increase 1) the number of teachers on emergency certification who become full certified, 2) the number of person-centered IEPs that a
2024 New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Department of Education’s Bureau of Special Education presents the State Personnel Development Plan (SPDP), titled "Bridging the Gap in the 603," designed to create a scalable, sustainable model of professional learning for educators, instruct
2024 North Dakota
The NDDPI's Grad 701 initiative focuses on ensuring all students, especially those with disabilities, emotional disturbances, and Native American backgrounds, graduate Choice Ready.