Join CEC and the Small Special Education Programs Caucus (SSEPC) in this three-part professional development series focusing on navigating through professional life in academia. Sessions will center around collaborating and networking, the world of manuscripts and grants, and using AI in your professional life and beyond.

Get to Know SRSD: an evidence-based approach that makes the thinking behind writing visible. Explore practical strategies for explicitly teaching writing and self-regulation while helping all students become more confident, strategic, and independent writers.

This session presents a quality-of-life framework for supporting autistic learners, organized through a Multi-Tiered System of Supports. Best practice is defined not as reducing behavior or completing work, but as building conditions for participation, communication, belonging, and access to meaningful routines — so goals are selected for real-world significance and generalization rather than ease of measurement.

Join Kuna Tavalin, Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor, for a timely discussion on the federal policy landscape and what recent and upcoming actions could mean for special education, students with disabilities, and the professionals who serve them.

Special education leaders make consequential decisions every day about staffing, resources, programming, professional development, organizational priorities, and growth. Each decision may be reasonable on its own—but over time, competing pressures can create distance between what an organization says it values and what its systems, budgets, and leadership choices actually prioritize. This webinar explores how leaders can use mission as an active decision-making tool rather than simply an aspirational statement. Participants will be introduced to SELP’s Mission Protection Framework™, a practical approach for examining major organizational decisions through a student-centered lens and asking whether choices protect mission, strengthen program quality, support the professionals who serve students, and advance meaningful student outcomes.

New teachers are told to progress monitor, but rarely told why it matters or how to use what the data shows them. This session walks through five places where progress monitoring most often breaks down for new teachers, from vague goals that can't be measured to data that gets collected but never acts on anything. Using a single worked example, a student named Maya working toward a reading fluency goal, participants will see how to read a trend line, decide when to change instruction, and translate that data into a conversation a parent can actually understand. Attendees leave with a decision-rule template and plain-language scripts they can use the next time they sit down with a family.

Join Dr. Donna Ford as she presents an in-depth discussion of culture and why it matters in all aspects of education, with special attention to special education.

Join us for the Winter Masterclass 2027 | Protecting Students, Preventing Harm, an educational event focused on recognizing risks, preventing harm, and responding effectively to challenging situations in school settings.