This set of four videos addresses assistive technology for students with significant disabilities as well as covering many available resources to support instruction.

This set of three videos addresses what all educators should know about adapted physical education as well as discussing physical activity for elementary age children with visual and hearing impairments.

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to provide introductory information for school leaders on Autism Spectrum Disorders and how to plan for successfully meeting student and staff needs. Participants will learn about the core deficits, defining features and prominent strengths and talents of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This information will be layered onto the specific challenges commonly encountered by the student and the staff working with the student in the school environment. Particular attention will be given to proactively addressing these challenges by organizing and planning for the school-wide supports necessary to maximize success of all. Leaders will learn about ...

This booklet describes the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA); how ABA is used in education; and different educational approaches that use the principles of ABA.

This publication provides information for career and technical school education staff to prepare them for teaching students with disabilities.

In this keynote address evidence-based research is presented in the areas of the context for learning, the what and how students learn, metacognition and self-regulation,  feedback, and student assessment to support learning.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit goes through the IEP-building process and discusses the paraeducator's role in communicating with families and other staff to build a strong team that will help the student learn. The instructor gives examples of types of interactions with parents and staff that might occur, and gives suggestions that involve input from other paraeducators. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand ...

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. It introduces PaTTAN's online paraeducator training program and what it means to be a qualified paraprofessional in Pennsylvania, giving the user a broad background on the purpose and role of special education, student rights, teacher and paraeducator roles. It prepares the student for the rest of the training program.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. The instructor describes the 13 disability categories defined by the IDEA and discusses strategies for working with students with each kind of disability to help the student become an independent learner. It also gives a general background on child development. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. In this module, the user learns how to communicate across cultures and instruct across learning styles. The module also discusses ways to identify signs of abuse and neglect. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit covers basic instructional strategies, and discusses how to work with students who use assistive technologies or have exceptional needs. It also focuses on math and reading instruction and best practices in each area. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit discusses behavior management, safety, and building a positive learning environment. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit focuses on how to communicate with stakeholders, particularly other adults in a school building, and informs the user of ways to develop strong workplace communication skills and community interactions to create a successful learning environment for all. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit discusses the purpose of instructional planning and strategies for effective instructional planning. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit discusses assessment and progress monitoring. It talks about the reasons for assessments, the importance of objectivity in assessments, progress monitoring, and the paraeducator's particular role in all of those activities. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. This unit focuses on building positive staff relationships, professional ethics and behavior, cross-cultural competency and communications, and understanding and working with different learning and communicating styles in light of an awareness of one's own preferences. The instructor has the user complete exercises in order to better understand the material.

This webinar presents up-to-date- research and practice on the assessment tools for secondary school level ELLs.  This webinar presents tests of English Language Proficiency and measures of student progress in this proficiency. Analysis of formative assessments helps teachers to monitor student progress and helps students to target their own learning needs.

Supporting appropriate student behavior is a critical skill for today’s educators. Participants of this webinar series will learn a variety of practices that will support students in a 3 Tiered Model of School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS).

Dr. Donald Kincaid, from the University of South Florida, introduces resources and best practices for training administrators in school-wide positive behavior support, and discusses research and successful practices in Florida. He discusses in detail what administrators can do to help create a school that has a successful positive behavior support system. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

The Inclusive "Best Practices" Project is a collaborative effort among Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit 9, Central Intermediate Unit 10, BLaST Intermediate Unit17, the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network and the Lock Haven University Education Department. The major component of the Project is a digital video case library, with accompanying professional development resources, that illustrates exemplary practices in inclusive instructional settings. The content developed through this collaborative Project provides web-based, interactive professional development tools and resources for in-service as well as pre-service educators. Resources for the "Best Practices" Project ...

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. Instructor Karen Kangas provides guidance on how to evaluate and adapt assistive technologies to help students with disabilities. The presentation focuses on how to use and integrate multiple technologies to best serve students, and describes ways to assess and adapt technologies like power chairs and communicate with students to come up with optimal configurations.

Skip Stahl, Director of Technical Assistance at the Center for Applied Special Technologies in Wakefield, Massachusetts, discusses how using instructional media with inbuilt flexibility can help in providing different students with appropriate instruction using the same tools. He describes a tool his organization made in cooperation with Google that helps teachers build accessible learning tools, and introduces other freely available tools that can help create an accessible learning environment. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

Brenda Eagan Brown, statewide director for the Brain STEPS Brain Injury School Re-Entry Program in Pennsylvania, talks about how different brain injuries affect how a student learns, behaves, and relates. She discusses different parts of the recovery process for students who have suffered brain injuries. She introduces resources that can help in understanding brain injuries and how to work with students, families, and medical professionals to provide support for students who have suffered brain injuries. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

Skip Stahl, Director of Technical Assistance at the Center for Applied Special Technologies in Wakefield, Massachusetts, shows how students with different styles and disabilities understand and interpret different media differently, and talks about how to provide instructional materials that can help different students learn. He discusses how different structures and presentations for the same materials can be helpful to different students in different ways, and how to leverage the strengths of instructional materials that have flexibility in those areas to help students, and talks about different products available that may be useful. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring ...

The presenter, Melinda Baird, is an attorney representing schools on special education matters. She discusses the history of education legislation and recommended practices, and how different policies and pedagogical systems have played out in schools. She talks about the relationships between general ed and special ed and the reasons and motivations each staff group has. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, Secretary of Education in Pennsylvania, talks about Pennsylvania Standards Aligned Systems, an approach that uses six distinct elements that together provide schools and districts with a common framework for continuous school and district improvement. He uses video to demonstrate some of his points, and gives examples of ways school leaders have supported school improvement recently. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

The Teaching Matters videos include six effective instructional strategies: assessment, engagement, explicit instruction, metacognition, scaffolding and teacher modeling. Presented in teacher-friendly language, the Pennsylvania Department of Education series captures the vision of â?knowing every child by name,â? building on each studentâ?s knowledge to support student achievement. The videos provide definitions and examples of the strategies for educators.

This module was developed by the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN). This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials. Instructor Karan Kangas discusses and demonstrates how to work with children to empower them in the adaptation and use of assistive technologies for learning. Contrasting the approach used to empower adults using assistive technology, the presentation addresses how to talk with and work with children so they can learn and explore using assistive technologies. She discusses common problems and challenges, and then takes the ...

Dr. Michael Fullan of the University of Toronto talks about leadership strategies for effecting change. Dr. Fullan uses video clips and other methods to discuss important aspects of strong leadership, the way institutional change affects different parties in a changing system, capacity building, and handling ineffective performance. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

Dr. Donald Kincaid, of the University of South Florida, gives concrete examples of how to implement school-wide positive behavior support at the secondary level. He discusses the distinct challenges in implementing positive behavior support in high schools, and also some of the resources available in high schools that can be leveraged as assets for building a school wide program. This resource is a 508 compliant presentation featuring searchable presentation captioning and video, navigation points, and synchronized, downloadable accompanying materials.

This session focuses on the development of critical processes and skills in beginning writers. Topics include: -A review of research -The simple view of writing -Exploration of transcription, translation and initial planning and organizing skills and processes.