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The resources presented in this Crosswalk lend support to state partners, including the state agencies, state support teams, and educational services centers by providing professional learning, technical assistance, coaching, and implementation supports.

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Planning

The following resources lend support to developing and/or addressing plans to focus on priorities identified.

Description	Type	Length	Certificate
Access to the General Education Curriculum/Literacy Access for ALL This FREE, 10-part video series containing over 70 coaching videos and hundreds of resources explores strategies grounded in research that are designed to ensure ALL learners have access to the general curriculum.
Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment Planning Guide Throughout this guide, you will be introduced to the planning process for transition assessment. It is important we intentionally plan for transition assessment to ensure we reduce duplication, build on a student’s progress, and identify individualized assessment to build the youth’s profile in relationship to those skills needed for their adult life goals.
Back to School Theme 2 A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron discussion on what we can do to make the start of school positive for all our learners. We must capture their hearts to capture their minds.
Challenging Behavior Expect Success Online Webinar Series Every person is unique and has different strengths, talents, and skills. When addressing challenging behaviors for people with complex needs, it is essential to individualize the process in order to develop effective intervention plans. This 14-part webinar series is based in positive behavior intervention supports (PBIS), functional behavior assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning. The series explores the belief system and a systematic process essential to understanding and addressing challenging behavior. It also includes team-based strategies that focus on matching evidence-based interventions to a target behavior, after in-depth exploration of the individual’s strengths and challenges. This series is ideal for anyone supporting school-age children, adolescents, and adults. Inclusive of the components of PBIS, this training can support educational teams working with students in need of Tier 3 support.
Checklists A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron covering strategies, discussion, and ideas you can implement tomorrow using the strength of checklists.
Clear Goals A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron discussion about the importance of Clear Goals, relating them to the Thought Bubbles from an earlier episode.
Designing for the Least Restrictive Environment in General Education Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) is a critical principle of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). School districts and families often struggle with WHERE and HOW to ensure LRE. What does the law really say? How can we use the UDL framework to reduce barriers and ensure that the general education classroom is the least restrictive environment? This presentation offers an engaging discussion that will stretch our thinking, allow for collaboration, and improve outcomes for each and every learner!
Effective Practices: Supporting Youth In School, In the Community and On the Job and Predictors of Post School Success Effective Practices and Predictors are research-based strategies that focus on supporting transition age youth to gain critical skills and experiences. The Practices and Predictors are useful to transition professionals in school and agencies across systems and in multiple environments.
ELSA (Employability/Life Skills Assessment) ELSA is an informal assessment to gather information about a student or youth’s current abilities with 24 employability and life skills. Additional Resources
EMPOWER Future Ready Learners Through the Lens of UDL Have you ever wanted to integrate your technology in a way that considers where students are in their learning, where they need to be, and permits them to select the pathway to get there? We are living in a digital age where information is just a click away; however, learning should be more than just a Google search. This webinar explores voice and choice with the UDL framework to a personalized playlist for all students.
Empowering Student Voice A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron discussion about empowering student voice.
The Leader‘s Role in Supporting UDL Learn about key leadership practices that support and sustain the use of the UDL framework to ensure that all learners are purposeful and motivated, resourceful and knowledgeable, and strategic and goal directed.
UDL Thinking A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron sharing UDL is all about intentional design.
Universal Design for Learning and Explicit Instruction A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron about Universal Design for Learning and Explicit Instruction.
Using UDL to Leverage Co-Planning Do you regularly collaborate with co-teachers or other school staff to proactively plan to support the learning of all of your students in the general education classroom? If you are a general education teacher, intervention specialist, ESL teacher, speech-language pathologist, OT/PT, title teacher or another collaborative teacher, then this webinar is for you. Join us as we discuss how to use UDL to leverage co-planning. Bring your best ideas as we discuss how to make these partnerships work for the benefit of all students.
Weaving the UDL Framework with Specially Designed Instruction: A Beautiful Tapestry with and without disabilities A quick 30 minutes on how Specially Designed Instruction compliments Universal Design for Learning.