Partner Projects
Since its inception in the spring of 1994, the Collaborative has continued to inform the field of challenges and successes in urban special education by partnering with various federal projects. These partnerships afford Collaborative members unique and important opportunities to contribute to shaping the future of special education policy and research. The Collaborative provides critical planning and networking leadership and assists in dissemination functions related to the work of the partner projects.
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
The
overall goal of the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with
Disabilities is to increase rates of school completion by students
with disabilities and emphasize dropout prevention for enrolled students
and reentry into education by students who have dropped out of school.
The Center
focuses on three major, interacting areas to improve graduation rates
for students with disabilities: knowledge development, technical assistance
to state and local agencies, and communications and dissemination. The
Collaborative serves as the expert on critical issues facing the special
education
community and assists in the identification of model programs. The Collaborative
also provides critical planning, networking, and dissemination functions
in support of the project's mission.
Web site URL: www.ndpc-sd.org/
Inclusive Schools Network
The Inclusive Schools Network (ISN) is a web-based resource for families, schools and communities that promotes inclusive educational practices. This resource has grown out of Inclusive Schools Week™, an internationally-recognized annual event sponsored by Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). ISN’s mission is “to encourage, embolden and empower people to design and implement effective inclusive schools, by sharing insights and best practices and by providing opportunities for connection.” ISN provides year-round opportunities for families and educators around the world to network and build their knowledge of inclusive education.
Web site URL: www.inclusiveschools.org
Corporate Partners
The Collaborative has developed networking opportunities for corporations that have valuable products and/or services they wish to promote to our members. The Collaborative gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our corporate sponsors. This support enables us to develop new programs, evolve existing ones, and keep our membership fees low. For more information about our sponsorship opportunities, please visit our Sponsor page.
Cambium Learning Company
Cambium Learning™ is the largest company focused exclusively on serving the needs of at-risk and special student populations. Sopris West ® Educational Services, Kurzweil Educational Systems, and IntelliTools ®, members of Cambium Learning, have established themselves as nationally recognized educational leaders for over 29 years, and believe that all students can achieve at a high level. Cambium Learning companies provide research-based, culturally responsive, and proven instructional materials, services and technology to help those preK through grade 12 students underserved by existing instructional materials.
Web site URL: www.cambiumlearning.com
Columbus Educational Services
Columbus
Educational Services is the nation's largest provider of onsite professional
staffing and consultative services for individuals with special needs.
With more than twenty years of experience, Columbus creates public-private
partnerships
to ensure hard-to-fill special education personnel needs are met through
recruitment, retention and capacity building.
Web site URL: www.columbused.com
eSped
esped.com, inc. is a leading developer of Web-based student information management applications for the k-12 special education community. Since our inception in 1979 we have empowered users with innovative solutions that evolve with the latest technology and significantly improve the accuracy and availability of student data. Through our comprehensive, feature rich eStar Series™ product line we are committed to providing the latest technology solutions for educators and administrators. Thousands of teachers, administrators, and service providers rely on eStar Series™ everyday for electronic file storage (eStar Archive™), IEP documentation (eStar IEP™), comprehensive reporting (eStar Reporting™), data management and compliance monitoring. eStar Series™ streamlines the process, automating every step from pre-referral (eStar RTI™) to dismissal, providing teachers the freedom to focus on what really matters.
Web site URL: https://www.esped.com/login/login.jsp
Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost
Fagen
Friedman and Fulfrost provides strategic legal consulting and advocacy
to school districts and other public agencies, offering advice and
representation in special education, student matters, labor and employment,
charter
schools, governance, school finance and facilities,
and litigation. Recognized leaders in the field, FF&F's special
education attorneys share a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding
obligations to students with disabilities, including duties under the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 and Section
504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. We have advised and represented
public agencies with regard to every aspect of special education law and
practice - from IEP meetings, mediations, and due process hearings to state
and federal
compliance complaints and investigations. FF&F's attorneys also
provide preventative legal services, including popular workshops and on-going
legal consultation to assist our clients in developing procedurally and
substantively appropriate programs while solving problems before they erupt
into costly litigation.
Web site URL: www.fagenfriedman.com
Psychological Software Solutions
Psychological
Software Solutions, Inc. (PSS) family of web based software applications
revolutionizes the student progress monitoring and IEP reporting
process for students with behavioral problems, autism, and other low
incident populations.
Using proprietary technology, PSS is able to bring districts' current data
collection and behavioral tracking metholodologies online which eases the
data collection process for teachers, promotes consistency across the district,
allows for the monitoring of students' response to intervention, provides
for expert analysis of student's progress, and promotes positive results.
Administrators benefit by having real time access to student progress
data which promotes positive outcomes for students with disabilities, increases
the efficiency of special education services, and proves invaluable during
IEP meetings with parents and other key stakeholders.
Web site URL: www.psiwaresolutions.com
Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation is the world's largest publisher and
distributor of children's books and a leader in educational technology.
Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products
for use
in school and at home, including children's books, magazines, technology-based
products, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys.
The Company provides learning solutions through cutting-edge educational
technology products for instruction, assessment, data management and professional
development,
including the breakthrough research-based reading intervention program,
READ 180®, which is proven to help improve reading achievement for struggling
students in grades 4-12.
Web site URL: www.scholastic.com
Scientific Learning
Scientific Learning creates educational software that accelerates learning by improving the processing efficiency of the brain. Based on more than 30 years of neuroscience and cognitive research, the Fast ForWord® family of products provides struggling readers with computer-delivered exercises that build the cognitive skills required to read and learn effectively. Scientific Learning’s Reading Assistant™ is the only reading solution to combine advanced speech recognition technology with scientifically-based courseware to help students strengthen fluency, vocabulary and comprehension to become proficient, life-long readers. The efficacy of the products has been established by more than 550 research studies and publications.
Web site URL: www.scilearn.com.
Voyager Expanded Learning
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional development programs, for school districts throughout the United States. Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading and math programs, to more than 1000 school districts in cities such as Buffalo, Miami, New York City, Richmond, Va., El Paso and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business unit of Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK) and based in Dallas, Texas.
Web site URL: http://www.voyagerlearning.com/
