Research and Practice

Access to quality journal articles highlighting research and providing guidance on how to integrate practices into your own context is part of a comprehensive professional development experience (Kozleski, Mainzer, & Deschler, 2000). Over 30 years later, findings from the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Presidential Commission on Conditions for Special Education Teaching and Learning (Kozleski, Mainzer, & Deschler, 2000), indicated educators continue to struggle with knowledge translation due to the many competing and sometimes ambiguous roles and responsibilities. [...]recommendations were included for federal agencies to encourage states to adopt policies to assist teachers in learning about and applying the research in practice as well as recommendations for states to require schools to demonstrate they are implementing EBPs.