Common Core Standards Can Include Students With Disabilities
Sharen Bertrando, Special Education Development Program Specialist at WestEd, says that common core state standards show that educators don’t need a separate curriculum for students with disabilities....
View ArticleAccommodating Students With Disabilities: Resources from Two States and...
This webinar will highlight online resources for selecting, administrating, and evaluating accommodations for students with disabilities. In partnership with the California Comprehensive Center at...
View ArticleJourney Toward Special Education Improvement
This webinar is now archived. If your school or district team is looking for ideas about how to implement Response to Intervention (RtI) and/or implement a full inclusion model that leads to improved...
View ArticleCPEI at WestEd Helps Hawaii Examine Special Education
Hawaii seems like a paradise to many people, but it can be a confusing place for special education students and their families. Dona Meinders, Project Director for the Center for Prevention and Early...
View ArticleNew WestEd Book Helps Teachers Reach All Students In Inclusive Classrooms
Teaching Strategies Are Applicable to All Subject Areas San Francisco, Calif—May 15, 2012—Today’s classroom teachers must teach to an increasingly diverse spectrum of student abilities. For example:...
View ArticleThe Common Core: The Foundation of the RtI Framework
This webinar is now archived. At the heart of the new Common Core State Standards is a focus on higher expectations and higher cognitive demands for all students. School districts must provide rigorous...
View ArticleCommon Core Implementation and Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports: Free Online...
WestEd recently collaborated with the California Department of Education to create free online professional development for implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in California. The...
View ArticleWestEd's Schaefer Shows How to Align Individualized Learning With Common Core
How can educators align individualized education plans to the Common Core State Standards? Find out in this recording of a recent presentation by Kevin Schaefer, Assistant Director of Special Programs...
View ArticleCradle to College & Career Pathway Institute for Special Education...
Register for the free Cradle to College & Career Pathway Institute. Date: Thursday, August 7, 2014, 8:30am–3:00pmTime: 8:30am–3:00pm (Pacific Time)Location: 1000 G Street, Suite 500, Sacramento, CA...
View ArticleCommon Core Standards Can Include Students With Disabilities
Sharen Bertrando, Special Education Development Program Specialist at WestEd, says that common core state standards show that educators don’t need a separate curriculum for students with disabilities....
View ArticleAccommodating Students With Disabilities: Resources from Two States and...
This webinar will highlight online resources for selecting, administrating, and evaluating accommodations for students with disabilities. In partnership with the California Comprehensive Center at...
View ArticleJourney Toward Special Education Improvement
This webinar is now archived. If your school or district team is looking for ideas about how to implement Response to Intervention (RtI) and/or implement a full inclusion model that leads to improved...
View ArticleHelping Individuals With Disabilities Succeed—From Cradle Through Career
More than $121 million in federal grants was recently awarded to various agencies, including WestEd, to help improve the outcomes of individuals with disabilities. “These investments are significant in...
View ArticleWestEd Awarded the National Center for Systemic Improvement: Center Helps...
San Francisco, California—September 25, 2014—House Minority Leader, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, has announced that the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), will...
View ArticleNew Services: Improving Secondary Education and Transition Professional...
WestEd’s Center for Prevention & Early Intervention recently introduced three new workshops designed to help administrators, educators, service providers, and parents improve secondary education...
View ArticleFree Webinar: Special Needs Students and California Common Core Standards
Register for the Special Needs Students and California Common Core Standards webinar. Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Time: 3:30-5pm (Pacific Time) How can students with disabilities benefit from...
View ArticleWestEd Special Education Project and Presentation Cited as "Great Resources"
A WestEd project and PowerPoint presentation made the short list of “great resources for children with special needs” in a recent Choices for Children blog post. The PowerPoint presentation was...
View ArticleWestEd Awarded National IDEA Fiscal Data Center: Center Helps State Education...
San Francisco, California—October 10, 2014—WestEd has been awarded a five-year cooperative agreement for $3.2 million per year from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education...
View ArticleEducation Week Highlights WestEd's New National Center for Systemic Improvement
“The new [Center] is the largest technical assistance center ever funded by the office of special education and rehabilitative services.”—Education Week WestEd recently was awarded a multiyear...
View ArticleRorie Fitzpatrick Appointed Co-Director of Center for Prevention & Early...
Rorie Fitzpatrick was recently appointed Co-Director of the WestEd Center for Prevention & Early Intervention (CPEI), with longtime CPEI Director Virginia Reynolds. Fitzpatrick previously was...
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