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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...
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.
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...
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.
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.