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Service Delivery Models: Impacts for Students With and Without Disabilities
This research study offers some of the field’s first causal evidence of how different service delivery models impact student achievement and behavior.
Using Classroom Observations in the Evaluation of Special Education Teachers
Researchers find that Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching is limited in assessing the quality of instructional practices most valued in special education.
Teacher Time Use and Affect During COVID-19
Authors provide the most direct and detailed evidence yet of teachers’ work and affect before and immediately after spring 2020 school closures.
Professional Development at Scale: The Causal Effect of Obtaining an SEI Endorsement Under Massachusetts’s RETELL Initiative
This project used longitudinal data from Massachusetts to measure the causal effect of a rigorous and time-intensive professional development (PD) delivered at a nearly unprecedented scale: teachers earning an endorsement in Structured English Immersion (SEI) under the Massachusett’s Rethinking Equity in the Teaching of English Language Learners (RETELL) initiative.
Are Two Teachers Better than One? The Effect of Co-Teaching on Students with and without Disabilities
Using longitudinal data for students and teachers in Massachusetts, researchers estimated the effect of co-teaching within a large public school system.