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Description: Transition Assessment Matrix - These simple tools allow you to capture transition-related services and activities happening in the classroom, during community-based instruction, in a career/technical education classroom/program, and throughout a student’s school year. Authentic assessments can help inform transition and Transition IEP decision-making.
Description: Transition Series is our annual event designed to educate and empower families and individuals with disabilities as they transition from school-provided services to community-based services for adults.
Description: Strengths Based Approach to Transition Planning - Understanding the strengths and abilities of students with disabilities is an essential component of effective transition planning. A strengths-based approach to transition planning is a collaborative process that encourages students, families, educators, and others to consistently draw and share their knowledge of student strengths, skills, and capabilities. Focusing on strengths that students already possess can lead to increased...
Description: An IEP in Virginia must clearly document how progress toward each goal will be measured and how often parents will receive progress reports. Check out the Measurable Goals Fact Sheet to learn more!
Description: If you’re interested in following disability- or special education-related legislation, you can track bills using Virginia’s Legislative Information System (LIS). The system is free and open to the public. LIS allows you to view bill language, meeting calendars, the Governor’s proposed budget and budget amendments, the Code of Virginia, state regulations, and more. You can also see which committees your Delegate and Senator serve on.
Description: The Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans: Effective Development and Implementation module series is designed to expand on the Virginia Department of Education’s Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans: Guidelines for Effective Development and Implementation document. The series will empowers educators by deepening their understanding of function-based supports that promotes positive behaviors, builds academic and behavior-related...
Description: CEBIS develops, disseminates, and offers free downloadable behavior resources, such as fact sheets, one-page practice guides, and infographics for stakeholders, including teachers, administrators, and families/community members throughout Virginia.
Description: Teaching Social Behaviors: What Teachers Need to Know is an online and interactive course that focuses on social behavior. This course will: Define social behaviors. Describe the importance of teaching social behaviors. Identify resources for learning more about supporting the behavior development of all students, including students with disabilities.
Description: The VDOE's Discipline and Students with Disabilities video supplements information found in the The Virginia Family's Guide to Special Education. This concise and engaging video is designed to help families better understand the discipline process while being engaged in their child's education.
Description: The Communication and Collaboration course includes: Lesson 1 provides an overview of basic communication skills. Lesson 2 looks at the process of collaborative problem solving. Lesson three examines ways to tell your story and elevate the family voice.
Description: This Tier 2 Behavior Instruction Evidence-Based Practices video provides an introduction to recommended Tier 2 practices, including self-monitoring strategies (e.g., check in/check out, check & connect), small group social skills, and academic accommodations and supports. High School examples will be shared.
Description: Families as Partners Training Videos are a Formed Families Forward initiative to support a variety of school-identified efforts to deepen and demonstrate authentic familiy engagement in multi tiered systems of supports (MTSS).
Description: The Supporting Families with PBIS at Home practice brief provides recommendations for families and caregivers on how to use PBIS to continue to support their students’ social and emotional growth and minimize behavioral disruptions in the home.
Description: Supporting Students with Disabilities in the Classrom within a PBIS Framework is a practice brief that describes the "top ten" intervention strategies effective educators implement to support all students, including students with disabilities, in their classrooms.
Description: Integrating Behavior Support and Team Technology (ibestt) guides describe evidence-based strategies educators can use to provide function-based positive behavior interventions and supports
Description: The National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) Behavior Strategies to Support Intensifying Intervention provides a menu of positive behavior support strategies, organized by antecedent modification, self-management, and reinforcement strategies, along with approaches for intensification.
Description: This Teaching Social Behaviors Practice Brief focuses on planning to teach social behaviors, how to teach social behaviors for students with disabilities, and how to support access to the general education curriculum.
Description: Behavior Support on Intensive Intervention - NCII, through a collaboration with the University of Connecticut and the National Center on Leadership in Intensive Intervention and with support from the CEEDAR Center and PBIS Center, developed course content focused on enhancing educators’ skills in behavior support for intensive intervention.
Description: The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is pleased to release the Virginia Itinerant Early Childhood Special Education Technical Assistance Document. The purpose of this document is to provide a description of the Virginia Itinerant Early Childhood Special Education Model (IECSE) developed by the VDOE and to support Virginia’s school divisions and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programs in its implementation. This document provides the critical practices that support...
Description: Essential Components of MTSS - AIR Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports essential components, tip sheets, tools, guides and resources on topics such as: Multi-Level Prevention System Data-based Decision Making MTSS Screening Steps MTSS Progress Monitoring Steps Three Ways to Save Time with MTSS
Description: Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports (VTSS) Resource Hub - VTSS Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 and implementation examples, including this Resource Mapping Tool, decision trees, and “How To” video
Description: What is MTSS? - Branching Minds MTSS essential elements guide and resources for implementing an effective MTSS framework.
Description: Framework Pathways to Implementation - New York State Education Department Multi-Tiered System of Supports-Integrated (MTSS-I) resources for integrating behavior, academic and mental health multi-tiered systems of supports.
Description: Identifying Assessments -NCII resources to support the selection and evaluation of screening, progress monitoring and diagnostic academic and behavioral assessments.
Description: Levels of Intervention and Evidence - NCII resources to support the selection and evaluation of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 interventions.
Description: MTSS and High Leverage Practices - University of Florida CEEDAR Center webinar series showcasing Tiered Systems of Supports and HLP alignment.
Description: HLP/MTSS Summit - CEEDAR and Georgia Department of Education HLP/MTSS Summit recorded sessions on bridging MTSS and HLPs for the success of all students.
Description: High-Leverage Practices Curriculum Resources - TeachingWorks online courses on high leverage practices used across subject areas, grade levels, and contexts.
Description: VTSS Learning Modules - VTSS asynchronous on-demand professional learning, including effective use of data in divisions, defusing disruptive behavior, and trauma modules.
Description: MTSS, UDL and Differentiated Instruction - University of Florida CEEDAR Center three chapter module on providing multi-tiered instruction and interventions matched to students’ needs.
Description: Family and Community Partnerships Reflection Tool for Family-Facing Professionals - By using this tool, you will be able to: Reflect on 4 Core Competency Areas of family-facing professionals Receive a "score" for each Core Compentency Area to identify areas in need of work Add in evidence to support each of your self-reflection ratings.
Description: Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and Community as Partners in Education - Resources based on research, practices, and tools to help educators strengthen their engagement with the community.
Description: Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-Tiered Model of Prevention Enhancing Modules - Ci3T professional learning modules on low-intensity teacher-delivered strategies, tier 1 prevention efforts and tier 2 and 3 interventions available upon registering for a free account.
Description: Check out the Executive Functioning Fact Sheet - Executive functioning skills help children plan, stay organized, manage their time, and handle emotions effectively. When these skills are tough, children may look distracted or unmotivated, but they often need more support and practice. If your child struggles with routines, remembering assignments, or staying focused, talk with their teachers about strategies that can be added to the classroom, an IEP, or a 504 Plan. Simple tools like...
Description: The Virginia Essentialized Standards of Learning in reading and mathematics have been updated and revised through a process called “essentialization” with the 2024 English Standards of Learning (SOL) and the 2023 Mathematics SOL. Check out the 2025 Virginia Essentialized Standards of learning for reading and mathematics. Read more about the Revised 2025 VESOL for Mathematics and Reading in Grades 3-End of Course.
Description: Check out the Emergency Planning for Students with Disabilities Factsheet - Emergencies can be especially challenging for students with disabilities. A new Virginia law requires IEP teams to discuss safety during emergencies and, if needed, include supports and accommodations in the IEP. These may cover things like mobility assistance, communication tools, or sensory supports to help students stay safe and calm during drills or real events.Families can help by sharing...
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1/30/2026, 2/28/2026, 3/31/2026
Description: Sign up for the Self-Paced Indicator 13 Bootcamp - This professional learning session is designed for secondary special education teachers to strengthen their understanding and implementation of effective, transition planning aligned with Indicator 13. Participants will learn how to create transition plans that prepare students with disabilities for postsecondary education, employment, and independent living. The session includes hands-on application using existing transition plans and provides...
Description: Check out PEATC's From Referral to Eligibility Factsheet - In Virginia, determining whether a student qualifies for special education involves much more than a single test. Schools are required to evaluate the whole child by collecting information from multiple sources — including classroom performance, teacher observations, parent input, and formal and informal assessments.
Description: Modmath® is assistive technology for math that helps students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other learning differences write and solve math problems. Using digital graph paper and an intuitive, easy to use interface, Modmath helps build numeracy for students of all ages and grade levels.
Description: The Whiteboard app is a digital workspace for teachers and students to solve problems and explain their thinking. Math concepts can be explored in a variety of ways using a flexible set of tools to sketch, write, and build equations. The Whiteboard app is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and other learning environments that use laptops, iPads, or Chromebooks.
Description: Check out PolyPad: Virtual Manipulatives - Unleash your creativity with the world's best virtual manupulatives! PolyPad is a mathematical playground filled with unique tools that allow students to play and explore - and they're completely free to use.
Description: Check out SPIRAL's Professional Learning - Professional Learning on Language and Fluency, Error Analysis and Directive Word Problems, Routine Word Problems, and SPIRALing into the STAAR.
Description: Mathwords is an interactive math dictionary with enough math words, math terms, math formulas, pictures, diagrams, tables, and examples to satisfy your inner math geek.
Description: GeoGebra Math Resources - Find free, ready-to-use math resources for algebra, geometry, number sense, measurement, operations, statistics and probability across grades 4-8 and high school to enhance student exploration and practice!
Description: Didax Virtual Manipulatives - Free virtual manipulatives from Number Lines to Base Ten, Pattern Blocks to Place Value, Disks our collection of free Virtual Manipulatives gives educators and families access to visual and hands-on digital resources that lead to understanding. Students can use these resources in class and at home to practice math concepts, reinforce their growing math understanding, technology they love in the process.
Description: Helping Kids Learn at Home - Educational experts at MCPER have created videos to help parents and guardians use effective practices to teach students at home due to COVID-19. Below, click on any image to read a description, download free resources, and watch the video.
Description: Toy Theater Virtual Manipulatives - Online manipulatives bring all learning and fun without the mess. Toy Theater's math virtual manipulatives help students grasp abstract concepts through modeling.
Description: Advocating for Math Support in the IEP provides ways to advocate for more help at school when a student with a disability is struggling in math.
Description: In this video, Sarah Powell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses key considerations when teaching students with math difficulty.
Description: VDOE's webinar on Schema Based Instruction for Problem Solving recording.