- Educate all principals, assistant principals, and center principals regarding roles and responsibilities of special education personnel.
- Provide opportunities for teacher networking outside of the school building
- Provide professional development opportunities related to teaching
educators advocacy skills and general management skills
- Support participation in professional organizations and national teacher associations.
- Ensure that school districts match grants that principals and school-based personnel receive.
- Provide district employees with career path options that enable classroom personnel to move into school-based administrative and district- positions.
- Recognize Master Teacher status amongst your education personnel.
- Ensure that there are system-wide professional development programs in place that are accessible to all personnel.
- Ensure that central district personnel and principals have mutually realistic expectations regarding work scope and accountability regarding special education personnel.
- School-wide administrators need to communicate to all personnel the importance of special education services and how these services fit in within the district function and the educational picture.
- District administrators need to ensure that all special education personnel feel that they can and do participate in all district-wide projects and programs.
- Ensure that there is a district-wide induction program available to new personnel.
- Establish and maintain optimum communication with local colleges and universities.
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"I like to have a panel of teachers and related service personnel on the
agenda of one of our meetings as a way to introduce administrators
to topics within special education."
"We assure that all professional development materials are accessible to
our teaching personnel."
"I go out of my way to report the successes of students receiving
special education."
"We provide (new) teachers the opportunity for discussion and information
exchange both informally and formally for a year or more."
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