PCG’s Project Success Resource Center offers research-based, targeted professional development and coaching for educators, administrators, and paraprofessionals supporting students with significant disabilities. By providing a needs assessment and carefully aligned content, we ensure teachers receive the support they need to be successful—whether they are new special education teachers, have experience, or are emerging teacher leaders, our Project Success Resource Center meets teachers where they are.
The resource center provides current, research-based resources and professional development, building local capacity to ensure that students with significant intellectual disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. Targeted resources within the Project Success Resource Center include:
- New Teacher Jump Start
- Project Success Playbook – Available for 2021-2022 school year!
- Playbook for Special Education Teachers
- Playbook for Emerging Teacher Leaders
- Classroom tools and more
New Teacher Jump Start
Designed specifically for new teachers who support students with disabilities, the New Teacher Jump Start program will build foundational skills with new special education teachers that emphasize planning, collaboration and instructional best practices. Registration is for two (2) half-day virtual sessions and will include relevant, engaging content developed for new teachers.
New teachers will:
- Identify the key components of maintaining high expectations for students with disabilities.
- Describe the importance of increasing communication skills in students as a way of increasing independence and access to academics.
- Unpack standards to increase access to academic content for students with disabilities.
- Identify specific ways in which implementing elements of Universal Design for Learning can increase access to general education content and settings.
Project Success Playbook
PCG’s Project Success Resource Center offers the Project Success Playbook for two cohorts: one for special education teachers and another for emerging teacher leaders. We are thrilled to offer these year-long professional development and coaching opportunities to teachers and teacher leaders during the 2021-2022 school year!
Playbook for Special Education Teachers
New and experienced teachers will engage in content, collaboration, and coaching through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous professional development. They will be provided an opportunity to share artifacts and resources developed throughout the year at the end of year showcase. This includes:
- Personalized needs assessment
- Access to Playbook content, platform, coaches, and a teacher community
- Bi-monthly, live virtual collaboration and professional development
- Personal virtual check-ins and coaching
- End-of-year showcase
Playbook for Emerging Teacher Leaders
Teachers ready to engage in a more intensive professional development opportunity to build capacity and establish themselves as leaders in their district will engage in content, collaboration, coaching through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous professional development. Throughout the year, they will implement a plan to address a problem of practice which will be presented as a capstone project at the end of the year. This includes:
- Personalized needs assessment
- Access to Playbook content, platform, coaches and teacher leader community
- Monthly, live virtual collaboration and professional development
- Personal virtual check-ins and coaching
- Capstone project and end-of-year celebration
Tools and Classroom Tools
The Project Success Resource Center has curated and developed resources to support academic instruction for students with significant disabilities. We have lesson plan templates, vertical alignment documents, and curriculum resources to enhance your instructional planning.
Learn more about our educator resources here.
Our Project Success Resource Center is available to support administrators at the district and school level in coordinating academic supports for students with significant disabilities. We offer specialized webinars and resources for planning, communicating with parents and families, and coaching teachers. Working with administrators, we share strategies and best practices for building inclusive teams and maintaining high expectations for all students.
Learn more about our administrator resources here.
PCG’s Project Success Resource Center also offers webinars and resources specifically designed to provide practical, universal tips for paraprofessionals supporting student learning.
Learn more about our paraprofessional resources here.
Interested in learning more? Contact Meredith Keedy-Merk at mkeedymerk@pcgus.com to get started!