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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...
High-Leverage Practices in Special Education
Content type: Book
This book introduces and defines the high-leverage practices (HLPs), how they were identified, and the supporting evidence. Designed for all teachers, contexts, and grades, these HLPs are based on four aspects of practice: collaboration, assessment, social...
Cross-walks: Alignment of the CEC High Leverage Practices with the CEC Initial Practice-Based Professional Preparation Standards for Special Educators
Content type: Tool
Last Updated:
9 November, 2020
These standards are the result of three years of work by the CEC Standards Development Work Group (SDWG).
Tightening the Toolkit: Focusing Reform on High Leverage Practices
Content type: Presentation Download
Last Updated:
16 October, 2020
This presentation provides background on the development and dissemination of high-leverage practices (HLPs), examples of HLPs, and guidance for incorporating HLPs into teacher preparation.
Improving Your Instruction: High-Leverage Practices That Work!
Content type: Webinar
This archived conference presentation describes the development of high-leverage practices (HLPs), provides considerations for HLP implementation in academic contexts, and presents video exemplars of HLPs in use.
Revolutionize Instruction for Students With Disabilities: High-Leverage Practices
Content type: Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of the process used to develop high-leverage practices (HLPs), describes the HLPs themselves, and highlights how they are already being used in the field.
Using the HLP Videos to Activate Implementation
Content type: Webinar
This webinar provides guidance for educator preparation programs and professional development (PD) providers to implement high-leverage practices (HLPs) into teacher preparation and PD through the use of supplemental resources, such as the Council for...
Georgia’s High-Leverage Practices Webinar: Reimagining Classroom Experiences to Maximize Student Engagement
Content type: Webinar
This webinar provides participants with a variety of strategies for building relationships, creating learning environments that encourage active participation, and checking for understanding to maximize student outcomes. The webinar focuses on high...
Georgia’s High-Leverage Practices Webinar: Introduction to High-Leverage Practices Through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Content type: Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of the interconnectedness of high-leverage practices (HLPs) and multitiered systems of support and provides resources to support the implementation of HLPs to provide equitable instruction for all students in Georgia. The...
High-Leverage Practices at CEC 2019
Content type: Webinar
This video, presented by Mary Brownell and Deb Ziegler, discusses the Council for Exceptional Children and the CEEDAR Center's high-leverage practices (HLPs) document and accompanying videos and discusses how those resources can help in implementing HLPs...