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High-Leverage Practices in Special Education
Practice-Based Learning Opportunities for the high-leverage practices
To support teacher educators’ use of HLPs, the CEEDAR Center, in collaboration with Educator Preparation Program faculty across the country, has collected a set of effective practice opportunities, that we refer to as practice-based learning opportunities...
Teaching Students with Disabilities—and All Students Who Need a Learning Boost
Read this paper for concrete guidance on how special and general education teachers working together can implement two critical HLPs: Explicit instruction and Feedback. Resources teachers can use to improve their use of high leverage practices are also...
Cross-walks: Alignment of the CEC High Leverage Practices with the CEC Initial Practice-Based Professional Preparation Standards for Special Educators
These standards are the result of three years of work by the CEC Standards Development Work Group (SDWG).
Unedited Clips of Teachers Implementing HLPs
These unedited clips feature video exemplars of teachers implementing high-leverage practices (HLPs) in a variety of instructional settings. The settings include elementary-level, secondary-level, one-on-one, small-group, whole-group, and virtual...
HLP #16: Use Explicit Instruction
This video introduces and defines high-leverage practice (HLP) 16 and demonstrates four key components of this HLP through video exemplars from in-service practitioners. The four key components highlighted in this video are the importance of using a...
Welcome to Our New Series on High-Leverage Practices
This introductory video introduces and defines high-leverage practices (HLPs) and provides a roadmap for the remainder of the HLP Video Series.
HLP #16 Guide
This guide highlights key elements of high-leverage practice (HLP) 16; provides tips for mentors, supervisors, and other school leaders who are supporting the implementation of this HLP; and presents questions to consider when observing and evaluating this...
Introducing High-Leverage Practices in Special Education: A Professional Development Guide for School Leaders
This downloadable online guide provides school leaders with practical tools for engaging their staff members in learning about the 22 high-leverage practices (HLPs) and how they can be used to enhance student learning. The guide has three sections, and...
High-Leverage Practices: Crosswalk
This document shows points of alignment in practices and standards between the Council for Exceptional Children and the CEEDAR Center's High-Leverage Practices in Special Education, TeachingWorks' High-Leverage Practices, and Promoting Principal Leadership...