Resources for Building Partnerships in Special Education

Beyond The Bake Sale: by Anne T. Henderson, Don Davies, Vivian R. Johnson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian Johnson.

A practical, hands-on primer on helping schools and families work better together to improve children's education. Beyond the Bake Sale shows how to form these essential partnerships and how to make them work.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

What are Developmental Disabilities?

Council for Exceptional Children

The voice and vision of special education

IDEA Partnership

The IDEA Partnership reflects the collaborative work of more than 50 national organizations, technical assistance providers, and organizations and agencies at state and local level.

Is Special Education the Right Service?

Eligibility Discussions and IEP Discussions are Different.

Johns Hopkins University

Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships

Joyce L. Epstein, Director Johns Hopkins University

Learning Disabilities Association of America

If you are a parent or teacher of a child with a learning disability – or have learning disabilities yourself - you are not alone.

Massachusetts Association of Special Education Parent Advisory Councils (MASSPAC)

This website provides MASSPAC membership information and the Parent’s Desk Reference—a listing of services and professionals for families with children with disabilities.

National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
NCPIE

At NCPIE, our mission is simple: to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people.

 National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities  

A great place to get free down-loadable information on special education.

National Resource Center on AD/HD

Information on AD/HD.

NH Department of Education

To provide educational leadership and services which promote equal educational opportunities and quality practices and programs that enable New Hampshire residents to become fully productive members of society."

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

Cultivating an ecology of youth success

Office of Special Education

The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT Research Summary (PDF)

Since its inception in 1973, National Middle School Association (NMSA) has been a voice for those committed to the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents. NMSA is the only national education association dedicated exclusively to those in the middle level grades.

Parental involvement: Title I, part A: Non-regulatory guidance.

What is parental involvement under No Child Left Behind? Washington, DC:U.S. Government Printing Office. U.S. Department of Education.(2004). 

Parents as Collaborative Leaders

Here you will find a variety of resources, including modules, which you can use to support leadership development among parents of children and youth with disabilities. The modules have been field-tested through leadership orientations with parents from across the United States who were invited to participate because of their interest in expanding their leadership knowledge, skills and opportunities.

Parents Make the Difference






Partners in Policy Making

The New Hampshire Department of Education is proud to partner with the Parent Information Center to provide this resource. This website contains information to promote parent involvement and strong school-family-community partnerships.

The goal of Partners in Policymaking is to educate participants to be active partners with those who make policy. They will become partners in policymaking.

Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations

QISA is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and putting into practice the conditions that foster student aspirations in school and learning communities around the world.

School Behavior

Knowing that most educators welcome practical knowledge and tools that they can use, I created this site to help educators learn about neurobehavioral disorders

School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action

When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students’ education, they can make a positive impact on student achievement.

Selected Parent Involvement Research

A summary of selected research compiled by Dr. John H. Wherry, President,
The Parent Institute, P.O. Box 7474, Fairfax Station, VA 22039-7474, U.S.A.

Shared Work

The IDEA Partnership Communities of Practice are focused on advancing  policy and practice in four key areas: (a) the intersections of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA); (b) school behavioral health services; (c) interagency transition, and (d) teacher quality.  As partner organizations work together and with States, districts, local sites and individuals, they form Communities of Practice whose members learn from each other and take action together in coordinated ways.  

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory

ADVANCING RESEARCH, IMPROVING EDUCATION Family and Community: SEDL is a private, nonprofit education research, development, and dissemination (RD&D) corporation based in Austin, Texas. Improving teaching and learning has been at the heart of SEDL’s work for more than 40 years.

Steps to Success: Communicating with Your Child's School

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) and CADRE
May 2004. This brochure offers specific communication skills that may be helpful to parents as they develop and maintain partnerships with their child's school. Developed in partnership with the NICHCY.

The Barriers to Parental Involvement - And What Can be Done: A Research Analysis

John H. Wherry, Ed.D., President, The Parent Institute or the last 16 years, since The Parent Institute was founded in 1989, I have looked for and tried to read every bit of research about parent involvement that I can find.

The Federation for Children with Special Needs

This website provides a wealth of information and resources on special needs topics; it links to parent training and workshops offered and to a searchable national family resource database.

The Impact of Parent/Family Involvement on Student Outcomes:
An Annotated Bibliography of Research from the Past Decade

Susanne Carter - December 2002  A CADRE Publication

The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)

This websites provides information and resources on a wide array of disability inclusion topics, including education, transition and career development for youth with disabilities.

The Leader in Me

We only get one chance to prepare our students for the future.
What are we going to do with that one chance?
"This book both thrills me and humbles me. It involves today’s young people. It involves our future. Whether you are a concerned parent, educator, or a business leader, I am confident you will be inspired by this book."
- Dr. Stephen R. Covey

The PACER Center

This website provides information and resources on a wide array of special needs topics, with materials also available in Hmong, Somali and Spanish languages.

The PACER Center’s Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers (the ALLIANCE)

This website provides information and resources on special education topics and other issues important to parent centers serving families with children with disabilities. The website also links to a searchable national directory of parent centers.

The School-Family Connection: Looking at the Larger Picture (PDF)

A Review of Current Literature  Read online, or download

U.S. Office of Special Education Programs

Toolkits on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities

Wrightslaw

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