Charter school leaders created the Co-operative because implementing special education services can be a challenge.
The DC Special Education Co-operative (legally named the DC Public Charter School Cooperative) was founded in 1998 by a group of charter school leaders, teachers, special education experts and local chartering authorities, and is the first of its kind in the nation.
Charter school leaders created the Co-operative because implementing special education services can be a challenge.
Charter school leaders created the Co-operative because implementing special education services can be a challenge.
Charter school leaders created the Co-operative because implementing special education services can be a challenge.
If you were faced with a crisis situation with a student in your school or classroom, how do you think you would respond? The truth is your response can be difficult to predict, and that can cause you to lose control of the situation. Yet, as an educator, you may face challenging behaviors regularly. To [...]
On May 9, 2013, the D.C. Special Education Co-operative (“the Co-operative”) graduated the inaugural cohort of the INCLUDE DC program, a 3-credit graduate course in special education for classroom teachers working in inclusive DC charter schools. “The INCLUDE DC course was designed to give teachers the specialized training necessary to accommodate students with disabilities in [...]
In honor of Autism Awareness month, the DC Special Education Co-operative is offering a special webinar for member schools. Our goal is to expand members’ knowledge of this ever-growing population and share best practices for working with students with Autism in our educational systems. The Autism Society of America is citing the current incidence of children with [...]