Find IDEA leadership resources that meet your needs from Lead IDEA and other organizations.
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Tool
This tool is a set of guiding questions for administrators to self-assess and measure state’s family/stakeholder engagement.
Source
Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Center
Year
2022
Online Module
The Working Together Series includes five interactive self-directed courses. These courses provide families and educators with a number of strategies for working together and through ...
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Center for Advanced Design Research and Evaluation (CADRE)
Learning Event
This webinar, More Than an Invitation: Tips for Ensuring Parents are Partners in Developing and Implementing the Individualized Education Program (IEP), featuring the PROGRESS Center, ...
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PROGRESS Center
Year
2022
Tool
This toolkit for special education leaders includes short-term strategies to meet immediate staffing shortage needs paired with long-term, systemic strategies to attract, prepare, and retain ...
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CEEDAR Center
Guide
This guide provides strategies that educators can consider when trying to determine how to find the time for intensification of interventions within the constraints of ...
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National Center for Intensive Intervention (NCII)
Year
2019
Online Module
This collection of self-paced training courses provides foundational information about the individualized education program (IEP) and describes the role of the IEP in developing and ...
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PROGRESS Center
Year
2024
Brief
Special education staffing challenges include problems related to the supply, recruitment, distribution, and retention of special educators. Recent evidence from Hawai`i suggests that financial incentives ...
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SPARC Center with the Brookings Institution
Online Module
Specifically designed with school administrators in mind, this module offers guidance on how to support and facilitate the development and implementation of high-quality IEPs, including ...
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IRIS Center
Online Module
This module invites students to examine their personal attitudes and beliefs concerning individuals with disabilities. It emphasizes the capabilities and strengths of people with disabilities, ...
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IRIS Center
Brief
Schools and districts facing teacher shortages often have few options for filling vacant special education teacher positions. Although the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) ...
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CEEDAR Center
Brief
Many states struggle with shortages of special education teachers (SET). To address the shortage problem in the long term, policymakers, preparation providers, and state and ...
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CEEDAR Center
Brief
This brief examines the persistent shortage of special education teachers, driven by declining numbers of certified educators entering the field and increasing demand for services. ...
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SPARC Center with EdResearch for Action
Tool
This resource supports state-level systemic change to special education for education leaders using the application of IDEA requirements to guide innovative approaches in four key ...
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National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)
Brief
This series of practice briefs highlight six evidence-based, high-leverage practices that research has shown support implementation of high-quality instructional programming for students with and at ...
Source
PROGRESS Center
Year
2021
Learning Event
Do families enter IEP meetings feeling defensive, unheard, or overwhelmed? This no-cost, virtual learning block focuses on helping PreK–12 school building administrators (principals, assistant principals) ...
Session Date(s)
Thu, Nov 13 2025
Thu, Dec 4 2025