OSEP Strand : IDEAs That Work: Session 2: Innovation and Improvement

Tools, Training, and Resources:

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Larry WexlerRenée Bradley

U.S. Office of Special Education ProgramsCEC 2013

The Technical Assistance Coordination Center (TACC) supports and increases ongoing communication, collaboration, and coordination among the 40+

centers in OSEP's Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network, to ensure that states

have high-quality, coordinated TA focused on improving educational results and functional

outcomes for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families.

http://tadnet.org/

NECTAC serves Part C-Infant and Toddlers with Disabilities Programs and Part B-Section 619

Preschool Programs for Children with Disabilities in all 50 states and 10 jurisdictions to improve service systems and outcomes for children and families.

The Center’s mission is to strengthen state and local service systems to ensure that children with

disabilities (birth through 5 years) and their families receive and benefit from high-quality, evidence-

based, culturally appropriate, and family-centered supports and services.

http://www.nectac.org/

The National Center on Intensive Interventions (NCII) is housed at the American Institutes for Research, and works in conjunction with many of our nation’s most

distinguished data-based individualization (DBI) experts. It is funded by the U.S. Department of

Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and is part of OSEP’s Technical Assistance and

Dissemination Network (TA&D).

www.intensiveintervention.org

The IRIS Center is a national center that aims to provide high-quality resources for college and

university faculty and professional development providers about students with disabilities birth to

twenty one.

http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/

The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) gives schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining

effective school-wide behavioral practices.

http://pbis.org/

The IDEA Partnership facilitates interaction and shared work across professional and family

organizations around common interests. In the pursuit of real and lasting change, two approaches are

used: 1) a focus on bringing stakeholders into the work of states as allies, and 2) a focus on broadly sharing the lessons learned with organizations.

http://www.ideapartnership.org/

The National Center on Response to Intervention’s mission is to provide technical assistance to states and

districts and build the capacity of states to assist districts in implementing proven models for RTI/EIS.

The Center’s work focuses on knowledge production, expert trainings, implementation supports, and

information dissemination activities.

http://www.rti4success.org/

The National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials serves as a resource to

state- and district-level educators, parents, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media

producers, and others interested in learning more about and implementing accessible instructional

materials and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).

www.aim-cast.org

The ALLIANCE National Parent Technical Assistance Center (NPTAC) provides Parent Centers, Parent

Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs), with innovative

technical assistance, up-to-date information, and high quality resources and materials.

http://www.parentcenternetwork.org/

The mission of the Data Accountability Center (DAC) is to support the submission and analysis of high-quality IDEA data by reviewing data collection and

analysis and providing technical assistance to improve state capacity to meet data requirements.

https://www.ideadata.org/default.asp

THANK YOU

Renee.Bradley@ed.govLarry.Wexler@ed.gov