Fantastic two days at the 2025 MO-CASE Law Conference and Symposium representing the LeadIDEACenter and The PROGRESS Center.

Our next proven math strategy is 'Use multiple representations, including number lines.' Find out more here: youtube.com/watch?v=XSnlcE… and find us @cec_headquarters next week for more proven strategies! Sarah Powell Mizzou Sped Sarah G. King Matthew Burns

Do you have students who are not making adequate progress in your academic interventions, and you don’t know what to do next? Register for NCII's three-part virtual workshop series will held on April 2, 16, and 30th at 3:00 pm ET. intensiveintervention.org/news-and-event…

Join us! The PROGRESS Center, NCII, and American Institutes for Research will see you in Baltimore for the 2025 Council for Exceptional Children conference. Join us 3/12 330-430 as we share findings from schools ‘Beating the Odds’ for SWDs, 3/13 Distilling HLPs for SWDs 915-1015, & 3/14 DBI in Rural Schools 1030-1130.

Interested in how schools are implementing Check-In/Check-Out? See our new study examining CICO implementation with 24,425 students and 1,766 U.S. schools! #PBIS #impsci Center on PBIS Mizzou Sped PBISApps Association for Positive Behavior Support journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Learning from the Council for Exceptional Children best, Marilyn Friend.

So proud of Steve, his parents, & our nephew, Zach.🖤💛 #MIZ #StayStrongStayHealthy

New article out today! If you want to read more about math read-alouds in preschool, I have access to 50 free downloads of the article: tandfonline.com/eprint/ZMI7JMS…

Weekend checklist: ✅ Coffee ✅ Sign up for your FREE CEC membership ✅ Tell your educator friends all about this opportunity! Through 3/31, new members get a free 1-year membership—that means expert resources, professional learning, and so much more. exceptionalchildren.org/membership/acc…

🧨Pub Alert!🧨   Dr. Aaron R. Campbell, Dr. Melissa Stormont, and I are thrilled to share our latest publication. The I-Connect intervention shows promising results in improving on-task behaviors and work completion. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

It's HERE! The long-awaited version of Pirate Math Equation Quest for multi-step word problems! All FREE. All DOWNLOADABLE. piratemathequationquest.com

The Spring 2025 Issue of REThinking Behavior is here! This is a free online magazine published three times per year for professionals serving children & youth with behavioral needs. mslbd.org/what-we-do/ret…

Another free resource from Missouri Prevention Science Institute and National Center for Rural School Mental Health: a Professional Development Hub ruralsmh.com/implementation…. Although designed for the Early Identification System, the tools are relevant for building capacity to implement any comprehensive approach in schools.

Need more HLP resources? ✏️Check out the HLP Alignment Tool! This interactive alignment tool, developed in collaboration with CEEDAR and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), identifies which IRIS resources provide information on HLPs. iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources/high…

MSLBD invites Breakout & Poster Proposals for the 44th Annual Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders, presentations March 6, 2026 in KC, MO. For more information and to submit a proposal, due June 15: mslbd.org/symposium-conf…

Do you have students who are not making ambitious progress in their current intervention or on their IEP goals? Come and learn evidence based practices for intensifying interventions on June 10-11 at the Columbia Convention Center. There is no cost for this training and you

If you haven't seen the large effects of UF Literacy Institute Foundations on early literacy skills, then the article is open access and you can access it for free. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rr… Holly Lane Valentina Contesse ILA The Reading League Science of Read UF College of Education Lead for Literacy Center

Call for Proposals: MSLBD 44th Annual Symposium. Breakout & Poster Proposals are due June 15. Share innovative ideas, practical strategies, and evidence-based practices that support students with behavior disorders. mslbd.org/symposium-conf…