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Providing data to parents/guardians/family members at school conferences is a valuable practice that benefits student growth as it promotes transparency, collaboration, and informed decision-making, ultimately contributing to better student outcomes. Using a resource to organize data to use during conferences all stakeholders can make more informed decisions about the student’s education. This includes understanding strengths and weaknesses, areas that may need improvement, and the appropriate level of support or enrichment. A link to a Google doc is provided. A copy will be made, and the work is completely editable to meet individual needs.

This form is intended for paraeducators, teachers and/or administrators to use to help guide a conversation about classroom procedures, expectations, need, etc. Paraeducators are often moving from classroom to classroom and working with a wide variety of teachers. This form can be used to start a conversation to help avoid any miscommunications. It is recommended to be updated once a year.

This teaching toolkit is meant to help SPED and content teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, students and their families, and more, to reflect, explore and put into action the ideas of collaboration through inclusion and co-teaching to support equity in education for all students. Training for teachers varies widely, as do resources, support, time, etc.. The idea behind this toolkit was to engage all teachers, including those operating in fear of change, in the power of collaboration. We want teachers who feel like they have no choice but to go along with a system, known to support and advance students within "the...

Dr. Rachel Kunemund is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. She manages the S4 OSEP Stepping Up Technology Implementation grant, and is Co-Principal Investigator for the newly funded VERIFY Stepping Up project. Her research interests focus efforts to improve outcomes for young students with chronic problem behavior in school settings. Specifically, her expertise and program of research focuses on early student-teacher relationships, coaching processes, as well as student behavioral and academic outcomes.

This template from Dr. Marilyn Friend is intended for co-teaching teams to develop their weekly lesson plans. It contains space for outlining the lesson's objectives/standards, activities, which co-teaching approach will be used, what specially designed instruction (SDI) will be provided, and more.