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Co‑teaching / Shared Instructional Responsibility
General education and special education teachers working together to plan, deliver, and assess instruction ensures that students with disabilities receive both strong content knowledge and specialized support.

Data-Informed Collaborative Decision Making
Professionals combine academic, behavioral, and formative assessment data to identify student strengths and needs, set goals, and track progress. This approach ensures interventions remain responsive and adapt over time.

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This article covers teamwork among professionals like general and special educators, paraprofessionals, and support staff is key to creating and improving instructional and behavioral plans that foster student learning, social-emotional well-being, and measurable outcomes in inclusive environments. Successful collaboration relies on clear communication, shared responsibility, accountability, effective use of student data, and well-coordinated roles and resources.

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The article outlines a framework of High-Leverage Practices (HLPs) divided into four domains, encompassing 22 specific strategies educators use to enhance instruction for all students, including those with disabilities. The four domains—Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensify & Intervene as Needed—highlight practices like working with families and professionals, using assessment data, explicit teaching, scaffolding, and offering intensive support when required.

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View a one-pager describing each of the HLPs.

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This video is divided into two sections. The first part covers essential communication and collaboration skills that special educators should develop. The second part offers practical tips for effective teamwork in co-teaching and working with paraprofessionals.

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CollaboratED by IEP&ME This platform streamlines the management of IEPs, 504s, MTSS, and GT plans by centralizing documentation, deadlines, and meeting materials. It enables team members like general education teachers, SPED staff, and service providers to access shared plans, fostering collaboration by reducing fragmentation and improving document accessibility.

CollaboratED by IEP&ME | The Special Education Revolution

Zoom (for Education / Meetings) Enables virtual meetings for professionals, including co-planning and data reviews, with features like breakout rooms, student data screen sharing, and recording. This is especially helpful when schedules or distances make in-person collaboration challenging. One platform to connect | Zoom

ClassDojo It enables teachers to share student work, send messages, updates, and photos or videos with families, promoting communication and transparency. Professionals can use it to showcase progress, gather family input, or coordinate external support. This keeps all stakeholders informed and actively involved. ClassDojo

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Inclusive Participation and Shared Decision Making
Ensuring that family members and professionals from various disciplines have equal opportunities to contribute involves using strategies to minimize power imbalances, such as adopting family-friendly language, offering interpretations, and being culturally responsive.

Clear Follow-up Planning and Accountability
At the end of a meeting, clarify who is responsible for each task, set deadlines, and determine how follow-ups will be handled (e.g., meeting minutes, monitoring). Additionally, review outcomes in future meetings to ensure tasks were completed and make adjustments as needed.

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Special educators need to effectively organize and lead meetings like IEP, assessment, or instructional planning sessions with colleagues and families. This involves setting clear goals, assigning roles, sharing relevant data, and ensuring everyone participates inclusively. Administrators can support them by offering training, modeling, observation, feedback, and chances to develop skills in both technical aspects (such as assessments or IEP content) and interpersonal ones (like communication, keeping agendas on track, and encouraging family input).

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The guide covers key steps for organizing and running meetings, like setting clear goals, preparing agendas, involving the right team members and data, and encouraging fair participation among professionals and families. It also offers strategies for faculty to train teacher candidates, such as modeling and analyzing meeting techniques, providing feedback, and using scenarios or videos to help candidates enhance their leadership skills in meetings.

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This video explores the second high-leverage practice outlined in the publication "High-Leverage Practices in Special Education" by the CEEDAR Center and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). HLP2 focuses on organizing and facilitating effective meetings with professionals and families. Discover the four key components that make meetings successful.

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TA-Live! HLP2 - Organize & Facilitate Effective Meetings with Professionals and Families

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CollaboratED by IEP&ME Similar to (HLP 1), it simplifies managing meeting materials, keeps plans easily accessible, assists with scheduling and sending reminders, and tracks follow-ups. It’s great for organizing IEP, intervention, or check-in meetings and for sharing documents with families in advance. CollaboratED by IEP&ME | The Special Education Revolution

Zoom (or other video conferencing tools, e.g. Microsoft Teams, Google Meet) Facilitates virtual meeting participation for families and professionals unable to attend in person, offering features like screen sharing of student work or assessment data, recording or summarizing outcomes, and enabling more adaptable meeting formats. Classroom Management Tools & Resources - Google for Education

Remind / Parent‑Teacher Communication PlatformsTools like Remind or Similar platforms assist with scheduling meetings, sending reminders, sharing preparation materials, gathering input from families in advance (like surveys or questions), and posting meeting summaries. They help ensure families stay prepared and engaged. While no specific article was found in recent searches, Remind is a commonly used tool in practice. Apps | Remind

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Classroom Management Tools & Resources - Google for Education

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Get started with Google Classroom, a central hub for tools and resources designed to help educators manage classrooms and enrich learning experiences.

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Culturally Responsive Family Engagement

Practices that value and honor the cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds of families, making sure that engagement strategies are both inclusive and fair.

Family-Centered Planning and Goal Setting

A collaborative process where educators and families work together to create learning or service goals that align with the student’s strengths, needs, values, and long-term aspirations, particularly in IEP or transition planning.

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This guide highlights that building trust, fostering open and respectful communication, and recognizing families as valuable partners with essential knowledge about their children are key to working with families of students with disabilities. It also explains how administrators can assist teachers by providing professional development, feedback, and resources to ensure family collaboration is culturally responsive, strengths-based, and aligned with other HLPs.

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The guide highlights essential practices for educators to build meaningful family collaboration, like communicating in clear, culturally respectful ways, treating families with respect, sharing decision-making, recognizing their strengths, and staying dependable and professional. It also suggests faculty development methods such as demonstrating ideal meetings, practicing parent-school communication scenarios, comparing good and bad examples, and reflecting on performance to enhance these skills.

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This video explores the third high-leverage practice from the CEEDAR Center and the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) publication, High-Leverage Practices in Special Education. HLP3 emphasizes the importance of collaborating with families to support student learning and secure necessary services. Discover the seven principles for building effective partnerships.

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Edpuzzle

Teachers can personalize videos by editing existing ones or uploading their own, adding questions, notes, and quizzes directly into the content. The embedded questions help assess student understanding in real time as they watch. This interactive approach makes learning more engaging and dynamic for students. Edpuzzle

Padlet

Padlet makes it easy to create anonymous question boards where students can ask questions for teachers or peers to answer. It’s also a great tool for saving and organizing articles, links, and other lesson-related materials. By encouraging student-led questions and discussions, Padlet supports individual learning needs and interests. https://padlet.com/dashboard