Organizations Related to Access
Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE) is a national center on dispute resolution that encourages the use of mediation and other collaborative strategies to resolve disagreements about special education and early intervention programs. www.directionservice.org/cadre/
National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) provides a vision of how new curricula, teaching practices, and policies can be woven together to create practical approaches for improved access to the general curriculum by students with disabilities. www.cast.org/ncac
National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI) supports inclusive, urban communities, schools, and families to build their capacity for sustainable, successful urban education by developing powerful networks of urban districts and schools that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach for inclusive practices. http://www.urbanschools.org/index.html
The IDEA Partnership is dedicated to improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities by joining state agencies and stakeholders through shared work and learning. http://www.ideapartnership.org/
The IRIS Center aims to ensure that general education teachers, school administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are prepared to work with students who have disabilities. Their site includes a number of very useful online modules around access. http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/onlinemodules.html
The Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) supports state and local education agencies in developing systems that effectively integrate instructional technology so that all students achieve high educational standards. CITEd provides this support through innovative professional development, technical assistance, communities of practice, and web-based resources. http://www.citeducation.org/default.asp
National Inclusive Schools Week, Dec. 5-9.
This year's theme for National Inclusive Schools Week is "Bridging the Gap: Achievement for All."
http://www.inclusiveschools.org
Day, Residential, and Juvenile Correctional Schools Project (DRJC) is a collaborative research and dissemination project that investigates curriculum, assessment, and accountability practices and policies in correctional educational schools for committed youth and secondary day treatment and residential schools for students with emotional/behavioral disorders. The first phase of the study involves a national survey of principals, special education Reading/English teachers and special education math teachers in these alternative educational settings. http://drjc.gmu.edu/
If you have any suggestions for links that you think could be valuable to others, please let us know.
Note: This list is not comprehensive and is continuously being updated. The inclusion of these links does not necessarily represent an endorsement by the Access Center, the American Institutes for Research, or the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs.
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