Related Links
Region 3 PTAC Website
Technical Assistance & Dissemination Centers
Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
A free, online, user-friendly, searchable database to help educators identify and compare assistive and learning software and products and related research for students with special needs.
Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center
The AACC implements, evaluates, and improves assessment and
accountability systems so that states and districts can reach the No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) goal of academic proficiency for all students.
CADRE (Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education)
CADRE works to increase the nation’s capacity to effectively resolve
special education disputes, reducing the use of expensive adversarial
processes.
Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL)
The main goal of CELL is to promote the adoption and sustained use of
evidence-based early literacy learning practices by early childhood
intervention practitioners, parents,
and other caregivers of young children, birth to five years of age,
with identified disabilities, developmental delays,
and those at-risk for poor outcomes.
Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)
CITEd identifies evidence-based practices for integrating instructional
technology to support the achievement of all students.
Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been
established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department
of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical
assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective
school-wide disciplinary practices.
Center on Innovation & Improvement
The Center on Innovation & Improvement supports regional centers in
their work with states to provide districts, schools, and families with
the opportunity, information, and skills to make wise decisions on
behalf of students.
Center on Instruction
The Center on Instruction, a partnership of five organizations, provides
resources and expertise to the Regional Comprehensive Centers in
reading, mathematics, science, special education, and English language
learning.
Center on State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP)
The purpose of SISEP is to help States establish adequate capacity
to carry out effective implementation, organizational change, and
systems transformation strategies to maximize the academic achievement
and behavioral health outcomes of students statewide.
Comprehensive Center - Florida and the Islands
The mission of this and all technical-assistance regional centers is to
help low-performing districts
and schools close achievement gaps and meet the goals of No Child Left
Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The Florida and Islands Regional Comprehensive Center serves the state
of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
Comprehensive Center - Southeast
SECC works closely with the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, and South Carolina to provide access to information, models,
and materials that facilitate implementation of, and compliance with,
NCLB.
Comprehensive Center - Texas
The Purpose of the Texas Comprehensive Center is to provide technical
assistance and support to the Texas Education Agency to assure Texas has
an education system with the capacity and commitment to
eliminate achievement gaps and enable all students to achieve at high
levels.
Data Accountability Center (DAC)
DAC provides public access to data about children and youth with
disabilities served under the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) - Part B and C; technical assistance (TA)
materials to support the collection, analysis and reporting of IDEA
data; and the forms and spreadsheets used for collection.
Early Childhood Outcomes Center
The Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center provides national leadership
in assisting states with the implementation of high-quality outcome
systems for early intervention (EI) and early childhood special
education (ECSE) programs.
Family Center on Technology and Disability (FCTD)
The FCTD
is a resource designed to support organizations and programs that work
with families of children and youth with disabilities. We offer a range
of information and services on the subject of assistive and
instructional technologies.
IDEA Partnership
The IDEA Partnership reflects the collaborative work of more than 50
national organizations, technical assistance providers, and
organizations and agencies at state and local level.
IRIS Center
The IRIS Center is a national center that aims to provide high-quality
resources for college and university faculty and professional
development providers about students with disabilities. IRIS seeks to
obtain this goal by providing free, online, interactive training
enhancements that translate research about the education of students
with disabilities into practice.
National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)
NCCRESt provides technical assistance and
professional development to close the achievement gap between students
from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their peers,
and reduce inappropriate referrals to special education.
National Center for Personnel Preparation in Special Education at Minority Institutions of Higher Education
The Monarch Center provides technical assistance, resources, and
networking opportunities in pursuit of our goal of affecting positive change in the lives of children
with disabilities, particularly those from culturally and linguistically
diverse (CLD) backgrounds.
National Center for Special Education Personnel and Related Service Providers
Working to increase the nation's capacity to recruit, prepare and retain
diverse highly qualified special educators, early intervention and
related service providers.
National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)
NCEO was established
in 1990 to provide national leadership in designing and building
educational assessments
and accountability systems that appropriately monitor educational
results for all
students, including students with disabilities and English Language
Learners
(ELLs).
National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI)
The Center’s mission is to provide technical assistance to states and
districts and building the capacity of states to assist districts in
implementing proven models for RTI/EIS.
National Center on Student Progress Monitoring
The Center's mission is to provide technical assistance to states and
districts and disseminate information about progress monitoring
practices proven to work in different academic content areas (Gr. K-5).
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
The TQ Center was created to serve as the premier national resource to
which the regional comprehensive centers, states, and other education
stakeholders turn for strengthening the quality of teaching - especially
in high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff schools—and for
finding guidance in addressing specific needs, thereby ensuring highly
qualified teachers are serving students with special needs.
National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB)
The consortium focuses on two major purposes as required by OSEP. The
first is to promote academic achievement
and results for children and youth (from birth to age 26) who are
deaf-blind, through technical assistance, model
demonstration, and information dissemination activities that are
supported by evidence-based practices. The
second purpose is to assist in addressing state-identified needs for
highly qualified personnel who have the
necessary skills and knowledge to serve children and youth who are
deaf-blind.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
NICHCY provides information on disabilities in children and youth;
programs and services for infants, children, and youth with
disabilities;
IDEA;
No Child Left Behind; and
research-based information on effective practices for children with
disabilities.
National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
NDPC-SD was specifically established to assist in building states’
capacity to increase school completion rates for students with
disabilities through knowledge synthesis, technical assistance, and
dissemination of interventions and practices that work.
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
NECTAC serves Part C-Infant and Toddlers with Disabilities Programs and Part B-Section 619 Preschool Programs for Children with Disabilities In all 50 states and 10 jurisdictions to improve service systems and outcomes
for children and families.
National High School Center
The National High School Center, based at the American Institutes for Research, provides the latest research, user-friendly tools and products, and high-quality technical assistance on high school improvement issues.
National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI)
The mission of the National Institute for Urban School Improvement
(NIUSI) is to develop powerful networks of urban districts and schools
that embrace and implement a data-based, continuous improvement approach
for inclusive practices.
National Post-School Outcomes Center
The National Post-School Outcomes Center helps state education agencies establish practical
and rigorous data collection systems that will measure and profile the
post-school experiences of youth with disabilities. The results will be
used for national, state, and local reporting and-most importantly-to
guide and improve transition services to this population.
National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders
The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum
Disorders is a multi-university center to promote the use of
evidence-based practice for children and adolescents with autism
spectrum disorders.
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD)
NRCLD's goal is to help educators, policymakers, and parents understand
the complexity and
importance of making sound decisions regarding whether a child has a
specific learning disability.
Our research in this area--including studies of the role of and
best practices associated with
responsiveness to intervention--is the foundation underlying all of
the materials available on this site.
National Secondary Transition TA Center
NSTTAC helps states
build capacity to support and improve transition planning,
services, and outcomes
for youth with disabilities and disseminate information and
provide technical assistance
on scientifically-based research practices with an emphasis on
building and sustaining
state-level infrastructures of support and district-level
demonstrations of effective
transition methods for youth with disabilities.
NIMAS Technical Assistance Center
The NIMAS Center maintains and updates the National Instructional
Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS), which guides the production of
digital versions of textbooks and related instructional materials so
they can be more easily converted to accessible formats, including
Braille and text-to-speech.
Project Forum
Project Forum's aim is to facilitate improved services to children and youth with
disabilities by gathering and sharing information that supports changes
to policy and practice at the national, state and local levels.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information
and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and
how caring adults can help.
Regional Resource Centers Program (RRCP) - Federal
The Regional Resource Centers Program provides service to all states as
well as the Pacific jurisdictions, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Services offered by the RRC Program include consultation, information
services, specially designed technical assistance, training, and product
development.
Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC)
The RRCs assist states in carrying out activities that support programs
for special education and related services for infants, toddlers,
children, and youth with disabilities and their families. SERRC serves
the following areas: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin
Islands.
VISIONS
VISIONS helps to ensure that Native American families of children with
the full range of disabilities have the training and information they
need to prepare their children for not only school, but to be able to
lead productive, independent lives to the fullest extent possible.
The Parent Center Network site offers many PDF files for download, which require 