Topic Area: Staffing
-
Tearing Down the Wall: How Personalized Learning Unifies General and Special Education
As more schools shift toward personalized learning practices, a question that has remained unanswered is whether this new approach to teaching and learning will accommodate the needs of those with disabilities. Join Karla Phillips-Krivickas from Think Inclusion and Virgel Hammonds from KnowledgeWorks as they discuss what they learned from a series of interviews with school…
-
Tools for Solving the Teacher Shortage
To give every child a quality education, we need a quality teacher in every classroom. But severe teacher shortages in communities across the country deprive many children of the opportunities they need to prepare for college, a career, and civic participation. In 2017, more than 100,000 teaching positions were filled by teachers with inadequate training.…
-
California’s Special Education Teacher Shortage
This study is part of a series of research briefs examining special education in California produced by Policy Analysis of California Education.
-
Teacher Retention: Reducing the Attrition of Special Educators
Perspectives & Resources around teacher retention.
-
Lighting the Path to Inclusion: How Beacons Embody Commitment to Students with Disabilities
This publication, the second stage of our research, explores the stories of individual leaders we call “Beacons” for their exceptional commitment to improving education for students with disabilities. In the brief, we examine what drives these leaders and identify strategies for building that commitment in emerging leaders.