1)What is a "Professional Learning Community"? by Richard Dufour

-Discusses three big ideas of how to improve student success outcomes. How teachers can work together for the bigger picture. And how learning communities allow a safe space and support for teachers.

2)High Leverage Practices and Evidence Based Practices: A Promising Pair

-It defines what evidence based practices and high leverage practices are and their importance. It discusses the four major parts of high leverage practices for special education.

-https://highleveragepractices.org/high-leverage-practices-and-evidence-based-practices-promising-pair?utm_source=chatgpt.com

3) Best Practices in Special Education: Quick Guide

-It offers an overview of a better understanding of evidence based practices. Establishing clear and precise collaboration processes for inclusion education. To promote a positive environment fosters mutual respect with open communication for all teachers. (Izak, 2024)

https://orilearning.com/best-practices-in-special-education-quick-guide/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2)Trello- allows real time collaborations through a virtual interactive whiteboard. It allows teachers to share ideas, resources and execute lesson planning.

https://trello.com/

3)Slack- allows real-time messaging and file sharing for team collaboration. https://slack.com

Dufour, R. (2004) What is a "professional learning community"? https://ascd.org/el/articles/what-is-a-professional-learning-community

HLP - Homepage. (n.d.). High-Leverage Practices. Retrieved October 13, 2025, from https://highleveragepractices.org/

CEEDARCenter. (n.d.). ceedar.education.ufl.edu. https://ceedar.education.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/High-Leverage-Practices-for-Students-with-Disabilties-updated.pdf

Herburger, D., Holdheide, L., & Sacco, D. (2020). Removing Barriers to Effective Distance Learning by Applying the High-Leverage Practices: Tips and Tools. WestEd.

2) Zoom- a video conferencing app for "face to face" meetings. Allows for conferences when a traditional in person meeting is available.

www.zoom.com

3) Doodle meeting scheduler- Allows the parents and education professionals to plan the best meeting day and time for conferences and IEP meetings.

https://doodle.com/en/

-It implements how effective Co-teaching can be with the implementation of technology. The importance of how to use technology and apps to share documents and information.

2)How to support special education through technology and collaboration.

-Technology has become a vital and essential part in supporting special education students. Joseph and Savo, 2024). It discusses the different apps and new technology tools that can be implemented into the students everyday learning environment to enhance their learning experience.

3)Augmentative and alternative communication

-Offers many different strategies for communication for students. They range from no or low technology based to all high tech technological support for students.

https://library.fiveable.me/special-education/unit-7/augmentative-alternative-communication/study-guide/Cs2etxQJXnxvNuw3

1) HLP Highlight Tool - HLP 3: Collaborate with Families to Support Student Learning and Secure Needed Services (VDOE TTAC at GMU)

-This resource includes video clips and action plans for family collaboration. Effective collaboration promotes positive relationships, an understanding of a family’s culture and background, and authentic on-going communication between school and home. Families are better able to support their child’s education, wrapping strategy instruction between home and school to accelerate and generalize skills.

2)What do educators need to know about EBPs for children with autism?

-It gives specific terms for the different evidence based practices. The terms can be very effective for IEP meetings with and for education professionals and families.

https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/asd2/cresource/q1/p02/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

3)High Leverage Practices in special education

Collaboration: Research Syntheses

-Discusses how the collaboration of special education educators, other teachers, and families to provide individualized plans for students.

https://highleveragepractices.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/Collaborationfinal.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

ClassDojo- an app that parents and teachers are able to share and discuss student progress. Share pictures, videos, text messages. Teachers are able to award points to students who stay on task. Parents are able to see what and how their students are doing throughout the day.

2) PowerSchool- an app where teachers and parents are able to be interactive and share information.

www.powerschool.com

3)Remind- allows for teachers to message parents student updates or concerns. Unfortunately parents are unable to message back. This app is not a two way interaction.

www.remind.com

HLP3 - Collaborate with Families, discusses how to build positive relationships between the families and education professionals. The communication should be the positive things the student is achieving.