In this insightful episode, Alex delves into the multifaceted world of collaboration in special education, highlighting the essential role of partnerships between educators, families, and multidisciplinary professionals. With a background in ABA and a current role that bridges clinical and educational settings, Alex offers a unique perspective on navigating complex systems to secure vital services for students with disabilities. Listeners will gain valuable insights into the principles underpinning effective collaboration, emphasizing the importance of open communication, cultural sensitivity, and advocacy within educational frameworks.

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In this episode, we dive into High-Leverage Practice #2: organizing and facilitating effective meetings with professionals and families. Pat shares insights from their work across diverse community partnerships, including schools, youth organizations, and family support centers, highlighting how each setting shapes the structure and purpose of meetings. The discussion emphasizes the complexity of coordinating multiple stakeholders, teachers, administrators, parents, and service providers, while balancing differing priorities and procedural requirements.

Listeners gain a realistic view of the challenges in aligning schedules, maintaining clear communication, and ensuring that meetings lead to actionable outcomes. Pat also reflects on trial-and-error strategies that have helped refine processes, including the importance of keeping the client’s needs at the center of discussions.

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In this episode, Heather and Veroncia dive into High-Leverage practices by examining how collaboration among professionals directly impacts student success. Veroncia shares real-world examples of working alongside special educators, therapists, general educators, administrators, and families to align goals and support students across settings. The conversation highlights how shared expertise and consistent approaches help students generalize skills throughout the day while reducing the burden on any one individual. They also acknowledge common barriers to collaboration, including time constraints, differing philosophies, and uneven implementation. The discussion emphasizes the value of proactive problem-solving, clear norms, and defined roles to keep teams focused and effective. Ultimately, the episode underscores a central takeaway: when students are kept at the center and adults work collectively, collaboration becomes one of the most powerful drivers of meaningful learning and growth.

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This episode explores the power of positive and constructive feedback in guiding student learning and growth. Heather and Candace discuss how feedback not only supports academic progress but also strengthens motivation, confidence, and self-regulation. Candace emphasizes the importance of being immediate, specific, and developmentally appropriate when giving feedback, as well as celebrating small victories along the way. They highlight the value of recognizing student effort and process—not just final outcomes—as a way to build resilience and engagement. The conversation also addresses the balance between praising successes and providing corrective feedback in a constructive, supportive manner. Ultimately, this episode illustrates how intentional feedback creates meaningful shifts in both student performance and staff perspectives.

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This episode explores how educators can support students in maintaining and generalizing new learning across different environments and over time. Heather and Manny break down the difference between generalization—applying a learned skill in new settings—and maintenance—retaining that skill after time or breaks. Through classroom examples, they highlight strategies like frontloading expectations, building on familiar routines, and prompting students to notice environmental cues.

Manny shares practical methods for supporting students during transitions, including praise, peer modeling, and scaffolding support until it can fade out. The conversation emphasizes the role of check-in/check-out systems as a powerful, data-driven way to monitor both generalization and maintenance of skills. Ultimately, this episode highlights how intentional support and systematic fading can empower students to independently sustain and apply what they’ve learned.

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This episode explores how teachers can provide intensive instruction that supports both academics and behavior. Heather and Ashley dive into what true intensity looks like in classroom instruction, going beyond small groups or surface-level strategies. Ashley shares experiences from her time as both a teacher and administrator, emphasizing the importance of planning, engagement, and building strong relationships with students. She highlights how individualized approaches, one-on-one interactions, and data-driven planning help close learning gaps while supporting positive behavior.

From the administrative perspective, Ashley stresses the role of collaboration, coaching, and celebrating strong teachers to model best practices across a school. Together, they underscore that effective intensive instruction requires both professional preparation and personal connection with students. The conversation leaves listeners with practical insights into how educators can balance rigor, care, and collaboration to truly meet student needs.

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This episode explores using assistive and instructional technologies to support student learning. Heather and Lathyrelle discuss how these tools go beyond apps and devices, highlighting simple yet powerful supports such as changing fonts or providing glasses. They emphasize the importance of universal design for learning, where strategies designed for one student can benefit many. The conversation dives into how behavior challenges can sometimes mask underlying academic struggles, and how creative use of technology can help reduce frustration and open learning opportunities.

Lathyrelle shares real-world stories that illustrate the need to think outside the box, collaborate with parents and teams, and value every resource—whether from professionals, families, or even students. The episode encourages educators to see technology as flexible, practical, and rooted in meeting real student needs.

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This episode focuses on strategies to promote active student engagement. Candace and Heather dive into the challenges of working with students who are resistant to academics and highlight the importance of understanding each learner’s motivators, strengths, and barriers. They discuss practical strategies such as adjusting content levels, breaking tasks into manageable steps, incorporating movement or creativity, and offering meaningful rewards.
The conversation emphasizes the need for teachers to remain flexible, pivot when strategies aren’t working, and provide frequent opportunities for students to respond. Ultimately, the hosts underscore that true engagement stems from educators being actively engaged with their students—meeting them where they are, sustaining motivation, and nurturing learning as an ongoing, dynamic process.

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