These Districts of Distinction runners-up are using innovative methods to improve curriculum and instruction in their school systems.

Police dog teams are familiar to all, and therapy dogs increasingly spend time in schools. Now, in some districts, security officers are patrolling their buildings with specially trained school dogs that can follow the sound and odor of gunfire and firearms to neutralize threats.

With tight budgets and unfunded special education mandates, many school districts struggle to provide appropriate individualized programs services for students with disabilities.

LRP Publications, a recognized leader in the special education publishing industry, announced that it has a released a book designed to help educators better address student behavior by conducting compliant functional behavioral assessments. The book, When and How to Conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments for Students With Disabilities, details circumstances that trigger an FBA under the […]