Category: Research & Trends

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3 Steps to Boost Your Transition Planning

01/19/2024

Improve special education transition planning: practical steps for district leaders to audit programs, engage stakeholders, revamp IEP meetings, and build SMART goals.

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The Biggest Challenges in Special Education in 2026

01/17/2024

Explore urgent special education challenges—funding gaps, staffing shortages, and equity issues—and practical strategies to improve inclusion and outcomes.

A special education teacher experiencing burnout

Addressing Special Education Teacher Burnout

01/16/2024

Special education teacher burnout: causes, effects, and proven strategies to prevent and reduce stress, improve wellbeing, retention, and student outcomes.

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Transition Planning: Are We Failing 75% of Secondary Students with IEPs?

01/05/2024

Improve transition planning for students with IEPs: address gaps in supports for the 75% with mild to moderate disabilities and ensure legal compliance.

The Benefits of SEL for At-Risk Youth and Students

01/05/2024

Boost outcomes for at-risk middle and high school youth with a CASEL-aligned emotional well-being curriculum—build resilience, regulation, relationships.

What is social emotional learning — a guide for educators

What Is SEL? A Guide to Social-Emotional Learning

01/03/2024

Learn how an emotional well-being curriculum in schools boosts students' emotional intelligence, academic success, and social skills with practical integration tips.

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Social-Emotional Learning: Expectations vs. Reality

12/04/2023

Explore emotional well-being in schools: expectations vs. reality, implementation challenges, and practical strategies to build inclusive, effective curricula.

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4 Key Benefits of SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) for Students

11/28/2023

Discover four evidence-based benefits of emotional well-being curricula: higher academic gains, fewer behavior problems, better mental health, and long-term success.

A woman is on her laptop overcoming the special education teacher shortage

Special Education Teacher Shortage: 10 Things You Can Do to Address The Crisis

11/21/2023

Special education teacher burnout fuels shortages—10 proven strategies for directors to reduce turnover, boost teacher wellbeing, and improve student outcomes.

Special Education Problems We Are Not Solving

10/30/2023

Address persistent special education problems - funding gaps, teacher shortages, disproportionality, testing and transition barriers - with federal and state solutions.

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What Is SEL’s Role in Preventing Teacher Burnout & Improving Student Outcomes?

10/26/2023

Discover how emotional well-being programs boost student outcomes, create safer schools, reduce teacher burnout, and deliver high ROI for districts and educators.

A hand is holding a pen and is making a drawing on a piece of A4 paper demonstrating UDL in special education

What Is UDL’s Role in Special Education?

10/25/2023

Discover how UDL (Universal Design for Learning) transforms special education with flexible strategies that boost access, engagement and outcomes for students.