Partners
Sponsors
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.
Partners
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. The Collaborative has developed networking opportunities for corporations that have valuable products and/or services they wish to promote to our members.
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Partner Projects
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.
Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the University of Maryland and Collaborative have worked together to create a project entitled, "Unlocking the Power of District Data to Improve Outcomes for Students with Disabilities" to help school districts build capacity in analyzing large-scale data sets to make real and measurable improvements in outcomes for students with disabilities. In September 2009, nine Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative member school districts were selected to participate in the project and representatives from those districts attended a productive, two-day, hands-on institute in Bethesda, Maryland, as well as participated in follow-up work back in their school districts.
Corporate Partners
Cambium Learning® Group is the leading educational company focused primarily on serving the needs of at-risk and special student populations. Member divisions Sopris, Voyager, and Cambium Learning Technologies are nationally recognized leaders in the areas of supplemental solutions, effective interventions, and assistive and instructional technologies. Believing that all students can achieve at a high level, Cambium Learning Group provides evidence-based support and expert professional development to accelerate learning for students in grades preK–12 who are underserved by existing instructional materials.
Edgenuity provides engaging online and blended learning solutions that propel success for every student, empower every teacher to deliver more effective instruction, and enable schools and districts to meet their academic goals. Edgenuity delivers a range of core curriculum, AP, elective, career and technical education (CTE), and credit recovery courses based on the rigor of state, Common Core and iNACOL standards and designed to inspire life-long learning. Fully flexible for use in any blended or online learning model, Edgenuity supports an environment where personalized learning is possible. More information can be found at Edgenuity.com.
Excent is dedicated to the development of innovative software solutions and dynamic youth programs that provide teachers and administrators with tools, resources, and information they need to more effectively teach and empower all children. We believe the path to success begins with empowerment—that access to the right resources makes all the difference in achieving true potential. Out holistic approach to improving student outcomes involves three distinct programs: Enrich software (Assessment Analysis, Individualized Education Plans, Response to Intervention, Medicaid Billing reimbursement), MyGraduationPlan (engages students and parents in the transition and graduation planning process and increases self-advocacy for post-secondary achievement), and the Empowerment Institute (programs centered on the 7 Mindsets to Live Your Ultimate Life). Excent has grown into a renowned global organization that serves educators, general, and special needs students in 23 states and throughout the world in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools.
Review360® offers school districts across the US a better bath to improving student behavior. Review360® is a web-based, research-supported behavior improvement solution that employs best practices with content, assessments, and progress monitoring including: incident tracking, intervention strategies, Universal Screeners, FBA Behavior Observation System and plan management. Review360® includes packages for: Bullying Awareness and Tracking, RTI/PBIS Implementation, and Behavior Solutions for Students with Emotional Disabilities, and Students with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities.
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.
Education in America today presents both abundant opportunities and equally abundant challenges. The nationally recognized consultants of Stetson and Associates, Inc. can provide help with both. Our team is dedicated to serving children and the educators who teach them. Bringing learning success within the reach of all children is our mission. Trademarks of our customized-service approach include: a systems-view of change that is lasting and meaningful; a research-based, effective practices approach; a dedication to practical, user-friendly tools; and, a training environment that models highly effective adult learning techniques
TeachTown is an innovative education company that develops learning products for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, speech and language impairments, developmental delays, and other special needs. Our curriculum uses evidence-based best practices from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Speech and Language Pathology, and developmental psychology to teach a wide range of meaningful skills.
Our flagship product, TeachTown®: Basics is a research-based, computer aided instructional program that delivers highly engaging On Computer Lessons connected to motivational Off Computer Activities for students who are developmentally 2 to 7 years old.
TeachTown®: Social Skills is our new video modeling-based curriculum for students with a language age of 4 to 8 years. Our engaging characters teach socially valid skills in animated episodes. The targeted skill in each episode is further developed through a series of lesson plans, classroom activities, and homework assignments.
TeachTown programs offer rigorous curricula with broadcast quality animation and engaging storytelling.
VizZle is award-winning Web-based software for visual and interactive individualized instruction for diverse learning needs. Find ready-made, customizable lessons in a peer-reviewed shared library or create your own with easy-to-use templates. Individualize using images, video and audio clips from a vast in-program database, or drag-and-drop in your own media directly into the lessons. Take advantage of the intrinsic engagement of displaying interactively on any computer, touchscreen or electronic writeboard connected to the web, or print lessons for tabletop use. Track improvements by IEP goals and objectives or any state standard. Designed by special education teachers, for special education teachers, VizZle is easy to use. Its roots are in autism, as it was based on research from The Monarch Center for Autism and Dr. Howard Shane/Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, but it is equally effective at reaching any child that learns best visually.
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