OSEP TA&D Network Centers
Data Accountability Center
DAC’s mission is to support the submission and analysis of high-quality IDEA data by reviewing data collection and analysis, and providing technical assistance to improve state capacity to meet data requirements
National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB)
The purpose of the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness is two-fold. The first purpose is to promote academic achievement and results for children and youth (birth-26) who are deaf-blind through technical assistance, model demonstration, and information services activities that are supported by evidence based research. Beneficiaries will include families, service providers, state deaf-blind projects, state and local education agencies and other organizations responsible for providing early intervention, education and transition services.
CADRE (Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education)
The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE), a national technical assistance and dissemination project, works toward elevating the capacity of educators, family members, service providers and other stakeholders to engage in collaborative problem-solving and other positive, non-adversarial processes.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
NICHCY focuses on support to states and local entities in building their capacity to improve early intervention, educational and transitional services, and results for children with disabilities and their families, and to address systemic-change goals and priorities. NICHCY brings research-based information and assistance to practice, in order to help states meet outcome indicators and show continuous improvement.
Project Forum
Project Forum is designed to address the clearly stated priority of the State and Federal Policy Forum for Program Improvement: to facilitate communication between OSEP and state and local administrators of IDEA 2004.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a multimedia project designed to disseminate research-based findings on helping young children with reading disabilities learn to read. The project focuses on early diagnosis of language and reading problems, effective interventions, and research-based teaching strategies. Reading Rockets serves parents, teachers, school administrators, childcare providers, and policy makers.
Center for Early Literacy Learning
The main goal of CELL is to promote the adoption and sustained use of evidence-based early literacy learning practices by early childhood intervention practitioners, parents, and other caregivers of young children, birth to five years of age, with identified disabilities, developmental delays, and those at-risk for poor outcomes
CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
CONNECT is developing web-based, instructional resources for faculty and other professional development providers that focus on and respond to challenges faced each day by those working with young children with disabilities and their families.
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
NECTAC's mission is to strengthen state and local service systems to ensure that children with disabilities (birth through 5 years) and their families receive and benefit from high-quality, evidence-based, culturally appropriate and family-centered supports and services.
National Professional Development Center on Inclusion
The National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI) works with states to create a system of high quality, cross-agency, accessible professional development for early childhood personnel. While NPDCI serves as a resource to all states, the center will select eight states for more intense collaboration, 4 in year 1 of the project (2007) and 4 in year 2 (2008).
Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children
The Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI) was funded to identify, disseminate and promote the implementation of evidence-based practices in order to improve the social, emotional, and behavioral functioning of young children, with a special emphasis on young children, birth through five with or at risk for delays or disabilities. The mission of TACSEI is to build the capacity of state and local programs to promote the social development of young children with or at-risk for delays or disabilities.
Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
National Center on Response to Intervention
The Center’s mission is to build the capacity of State Education Agencies (SEAs) to assist Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in implementing proven and promising models for RTI.
Center on State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices
SISEP will work with selected states to improve their capacity to carry out implementation, organizational change, and systems transformation strategies to maximize achievement outcomes of all students in each state.
IDEA Partnership
This project of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) will help policy makers, service providers, administrators, and families translate knowledge into action in a way that creates personal meaning and informs their work and interactions every day.
NIUSI-Leadscape
NIUSI-LeadScape directly assists at least 400 principals across the country to develop and implement inclusive schools to ensure their students with and without disabilities meet or exceed academic standards set by their states and measured by state assessment systems
Early Childhood Outcomes Center
Through a purposeful combination of strategies including research, collaboration, consensus building, technical assistance (TA), and dissemination, the Center seeks to move outcome measurement progressively forward, toward achieving: (a) national data on outcomes for young children with disabilities, and (b) the regular use of outcome data for program improvement at the local and state levels.
National Center on Educational Outcomes
The National Center on Educational Outcomes provides technical assistance on improving results for students with disabilities by increasing their participation rates in high quality assessment and accountability systems, improving the quality of assessments in which they participate, improving the capacity of States to meet data collection requirements, and strengthening accountability for results.
National Post-School Outcomes Center
The Center assists states to fulfill the requirements and spirit of the Part B SPP/APR Indicator 14.
CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
CONNECT is developing web-based, instructional resources for faculty and other professional development providers that focus on and respond to challenges faced each day by those working with young children with disabilities and their families.
IRIS Center for Training Enhancements
The IRIS (IDEA '04 and Research for Inclusive Settings) Center creates free training enhancement resources for college faculty who are preparing the next generation of school personnel and for professional development providers who are training current school professionals. IRIS training enhancements are designed to equip school personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively teach students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
Monarch Center II: National Outreach and Technical Assistance Center on Discretionary Awards for Minority Institutions
This project will improve educational results for students with disabilities by: (a) promoting the successful participation of minority institutions of higher education (MIHEs) in IDEA personnel preparation competitions, and (b) supporting the development and enhancement of special education and related services programs at MIHEs.
National Center to Improve Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Personnel for Children with Disabilities (Personnel Improvement Center- PIC)
Our work in selected states and their local programs is focused on increasing capacity to hire and develop personnel to serve children and youth with disabilities, birth to 21, and their families.
National Center to Inform Policy and Practice in Special Education Professional Development
NCIPP is a national center house at the University of Florida (UF) and designed to (a) inform special education teacher preparation policy and practice by examining and recommending to IHEs, SEAs, and LEAS those policies and practices that improve retention of beginning special education teachers, and (b) recommend implementation strategies for policies and practices that provided beginning special education and regular education teachers with the knowledge and skills to effectively support students with disabilities in different classroom settings, including collaborative practices in regular classroom settings.
National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders
The mission of the National Professional Development Center on ASD is to provided resources, professional development, and technical assistance that will increase the number of highly qualified personnel serving children and youth with ASD. Investigators from partner sites work with selected states (total of 12 during funding cycle) to build capacity in the use of EBP at selected sites in the state.
National Parent Technical Assistance Center
The Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers (the ALLIANCE) is an innovative partnership of one national and six regional parent technical assistance centers, each funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
The Center will organize and apply a network of multiple sources of knowledge and support, will interact and collaborate with key organizations and networks providing programs and professional services, and will utilize the expertise of other key researchers and practitioners in a network of "Exchange Team Experts" to offer complementary outreach activities and resources relevant to dropout prevention strategies.
National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center
The purpose of this project is to help states meet evaluation targets for transition planning and postschool outcomes and build capacity to support and improve transition planning, services, and outcomes for youth with disabilities.
PEPNet
The Postsecondary Education Programs Network increases and improves postsecondary educational opportunities for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. PEPNet provides technical assistance for educational institutions to increase their capacity to attract and serve deaf or hard-of-hearing students.
Center for Implementing Technology in Education
CITEd supports state and local education agencies (SEAs/LEAs) in implementing and evaluating selected evidence-based practices that effectively integrate technology into sound teaching so that children with disabilities will have access to the general education curriculum and achieve high educational standards.
Family Center on Technology and Disability
FCTD provides current, accurate, and relevant information resources on assistive and instructional technologies. It conducts outreach to a national infrastructure of organizations that work directly with families and children, strengthening their ability to provide technology-related support. The project also provides online forums, annual technology institutes, and in-depth monthly newsletters to educators, disability professionals, TA%D project personnel, and families.
NIMAS Technical Assistance Center
The NIMAS Technical Assistance Center provides technical assistance to states, publishers, content conversion services and other entities involved in providing such accessible educational materials to students with disabilities.