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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...
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.
Using High-Leverage Practices in Teacher Preparation to Reduce the Research-to-Practice Gap in Inclusive Settings
Content type: Journal Article
Although researchers have developed evidence-based practices and identified other effective practices that show promise for improving outcomes for students with disabilities, these practices are all too frequently not used in inclusive classrooms. Some...
News From CEC: High-Leverage Practices in Special Education
Content type: Journal Article
This article in Teaching Exceptional Children provides a brief overview of the development process and rationale for high-leverage practices (HLPs) as well as a visual that describes each HLP.
Unedited Clips of Teachers Implementing HLPs
Content type: Video
Last Updated:
7 October, 2020
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...
Welcome to Our New Series on High-Leverage Practices
Content type: Video
Last Updated:
7 October, 2020
This introductory video introduces and defines high-leverage practices (HLPs) and provides a roadmap for the remainder of the HLP Video Series.