Principal Navigator: Strengthening Services for Students With Disabilities
Creating Systems That Ensure Students With Disabilities Learn and Thrive in the Classroom
Are you looking for ways to ensure that students with disabilities benefit from meaningful educational experiences and consistently make progress toward their individualized education program (IEP) goals? You are not alone.
Supporting students with disabilities requires purposeful leadership—leadership that is intentional, collaborative, and grounded in high expectations for every learner. The Strengthening Services for Students With Disabilities Navigator gives principals actionable strategies to improve classroom teaching practices and enhance service delivery for students with disabilities. This tool offers strategies for tackling common challenges and emphasizes the principal’s role in setting up a schoolwide system for tracking progress, identifying students who are not meeting IEP goals, and guiding data-driven interventions.
Select each issue below to:
Educator responsibilities have substantially changed because students with disabilities are increasingly served in the general education classroom.
- Bettini et al., 2022 Source
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What are your school's issues?
Missing the Mark
Decisions Without Data
Educators face challenges in using data effectively to ensure students with disabilities access the general curriculum and make progress toward IEP goals.
High-Intensity Needs
Student Challenges
Students with disabilities face complex academic and behavioral challenges. Educators’ skill gaps in instruction, behavior management, and progress monitoring often hinder these students’ access to the general curriculum and progress toward achieving their IEP goals.
Mine & Yours
Lack of Shared Ownership
Students with disabilities face complex academic and behavioral challenges. Educators’ skill gaps in instruction, behavior management, and progress monitoring often hinder these students’ access to the general curriculum and progress toward achieving their IEP goals.
This tool was developed in partnership with the PROGRESS Center, and the National Center on Intensive Intervention, federally funded technical assistance centers working to bring extensive expertise in evidence-based practices, intervention, special education law and policy, and engagement with educators, families, and leaders to develop and implement high-quality instructional programming for students with disabilities.