The State Education Department’s Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities has undertaken several initiatives to identify effective practices in schools that have resulted in improving the quality of education for students with disabilities and increased achievement of students with disabilities. The purpose of identifying effective practices is to encourage districts to learn from each other and assist each other in improving their practices and/or procedures that result in improving the performance and achievement of students with disabilities.

For further information about these programs, you may click on the title below or locate them on the statewide map .

Links to other effective practice sites are also listed.

Effective Practices in Educational Programs for School-Age Students with Autism

General Overview of Effective Practice Areas

Effective Practices in Instructional Programs for Students with Disabilities

Effective Inclusion Programs

Quality Assurance Verification Districts

Effective Transition to Adult Services

Effective Practices in the Provision of Transition Programs and Services for Secondary Students

Partners for Children - Effective Practices in Collaborative School-Based Mental Health Services

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