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National Center for Special Education Personnel: Increasing Capacity & Providing Support

The National Center for Special Education Personnel aims to enhance the recruitment, preparation, and retention of highly qualified personnel to serve individuals with disabilities and their families. Our services include a toll-free call center, an interactive website, an online searchable database of preparation programs, and technical assistance to states.

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National Center for Special Education Personnel: Increasing Capacity & Providing Support

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  1. The National Center for Special Education Personnel and Related Service Providers Phoebe Gillespie, Ph.D. Project Director @ NASDSE

  2. Personnel Center Mission …to increase the nation’s capacity to recruit, prepare and retain highly qualified, diverse personnel to serve infants, children and youth with disabilities, birth to 21, and their families.

  3. Services Provided by the Personnel Center • Toll-free call center • Interactive website • Online searchable database of preparation programs nationwide • Technical assistance to up to five states each year

  4. Website and Call Center • Information on careers, certification (including alternative paths) and financial aide opportunities • Resources, research, reports and materials on supply and demand, highly qualified and recruitment and retention initiatives

  5. Online Searchable Program Database • Contact information • Program descriptions • Searchable by state • OSEP-funded programs • Financial aide opportunities • Minority institution designation

  6. Technical Assistance to States • Personnel data planning and data management • Statewide stakeholder taskforce for personnel development • Local district memberships to Teachers-Teachers.com • Media products/Public Relations support • Diversity recruitment training

  7. Data Planning and Management • Persons in the pipeline currently pursuing personnel preparation programs • Production of all preparation programs in state • Certification database • Statewide human resources database • State and district retirement predictions • District vacancy reports • Attrition and retention data

  8. Personnel Development Taskforce • Challenges and barriers that exist to recruitment, preparation and retention of personnel • Strategies that already exist in state to address those challenges and barriers • New strategies that need to be implemented • Action plan to implement each strategy identified

  9. Additional Recruitment Resources • 20 free memberships to Teachers-Teachers.com • Media products and public relations support with a $10,000 for duplication and distribution • Diversity recruitment training for local school district recruitment teams

  10. Challenges Specific to Early Intervention Personnel Development • Lack of state certification for the early intervention “teacher” • Lack of a personnel database of persons who work in EI • Lack of personnel preparation programs that are geared for birth to three service delivery • Difficulty in hiring related service personnel to work in EI programs

  11. Challenges, cont’d

  12. Strategies to Address EI Personnel Needs in States • More communication and collaboration between the lead agency for EI and the agencies that hire and place EI personnel • Consistent adherence to the established regulations for qualified personnel in EI • Development of a personnel database that includes the qualifications of EI personnel and their placement • Ability to assess and project current and future personnel needs in EI

  13. Strategies, cont’d

  14. Contact Us • www.personnelcenter.org • 1-866-BECOME1 • phoebe.gillespie@nasdse.org • info@personnelcenter.org

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