"The New England Secondary School Consortium state liaisons are our in-state representatives and spokespersons. In collaboration with each state's department of education, they lead Consortium programs and support on-the-ground activities, from providing technical assistance to participating schools and working with state partner organizations to delivering presentations and coordinating events. If you are interested in learning more about Consortium activities in your state, reach out to your state liaison."

The Transition Coalition provides FREE research-based online training for professionals and others involved in transition planning. These modules are developed using up-to-date research in transition, effective practices in professional development, and are tested by practitioners across the country.

Examples and non-examples--I-13

Have you been hearing a lot about subtypes of LD lately? Perhaps it's just that I've been especially alert to it, but it seems I've heard a lot of mentions about subtypes of Learning Disabilities in the last few weeks. Here are a few foundational comments about subtyping LD.

Wall Street's excesses blew up the economy. Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. Across the country, our children are already paying part of the bill -- as their schools are hit with deep budget cuts. A new report -- Starving America's Public Schools: How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates are Hurting our Nation's Students -- released today by the Campaign for America's Future and the National Education Association, looks at five states to detail what this means to kids in our public elementary and secondary schools. (Full disclosure: I co-direct the Campaign.) The findings are sobering.

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"NCIPP created program descriptions for three innovative districts with induction and mentoring programs targeted at beginning special education teachers. Program descriptions were the result of extensive interviews with mentors, beginning teachers, principals and program administrators, as well as program data analysis and videos of mentoring sessions."

Have you ever wanted a simple and convenient way to track attendance for your group or classroom? Well, now there's a way. MyAttendanceTracker.com is an online attendance tracker and it will help simplify the tedious task of keeping attendance. Some of the site's key features: *It's free! *Track attendance online from home or work or school *Easy to use interface to enter attendance data *Import Tools allow you to load your entire class list in minutes *Reports you'll love *Export data to Excel or download reports as PDFs

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"Realizing the full potential of the internet - universal access to research, education, full participation in culture, and driving a new era of development, growth, and productivity."

"Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs."

"This site will be both a support site for my presentations about iPad use for teaching and learning and it also includes links to other iPad information pages."