This document provides two example schedules of how to use the SETTT for Success resource collection and trainer professional learning supports while implementing a teacher professional development cycle. One example is for a workshop model and the other is for an ongoing professional learning community.

This document includes strategies and example learning activities used with adult learners to promote active, engaging professional development experiences. It offers ideas for professional development that target teacher knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors.

The Guide to Promoting Professional Development provides information, resources, and examples to help you: (1) identify appropriate audiences for your PD services, (2) reach these audiences with relevant and well-defined services that are based on best practices, and (3) design and share appealing materials that will increase interest, investment, and participation from these audiences.

Follow-up support is intended to strengthen the transfer of learned strategies or skills so they will be retained and applied effectively. This website includes resources that can be used to facilitate the follow-up support process.

This guide provides step-by-step guidance on how to evaluate PD activities and events. This guide presents five levels of professional development that can define the focus of an evaluation: implementation, participant reactions, learning, behavior, and impact.

This toolkit explains the need for a training cadre to sustain an organization’s professional development goals and provides resources to support those efforts.

Keynote address video by Karen Erickson on why literacy is important for using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC), for all students.

Effective training engages learners and leads to results. For this to happen, activities need to be chosen with intention, and need to be sequenced in the appropriate manner. The Training Activity Cookbook provides activities based on adult learning principles to be used at different parts of PD: anchor, content, application, and future use.

This module focuses on the characteristics that distinguish students with significant cognitive disabilities who take an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards from other students with disabilities.

This module provides an introduction to the Essential Elements that were developed by the Dynamic Learning Maps Consortium to provide links between the College and Career Readiness Standards and grade-specific expectations for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

This module describes the system of claims and conceptual areas that organize the DLM Alternate Assessment System. Understanding this system will support educational teams as they begin to identify instructional priorities for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

This module focuses on the process of writing SMART annual goals and short-term objectives or benchmarks that are linked to the DLM claims, conceptual areas, and Essential Elements. This module should be used in conjunction with information provided by each state education agency regarding IEPs.

SETTT for Success offers a facilitated module bundle, including an adaptable slide deck and facilitator guide, on the topic of presuming competence.

SETTT for Success offers a facilitated module bundle, including an adaptable slide deck and facilitator guide, on the topic of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

SETTT for Success offers a facilitated module bundle, including an adaptable slide deck and facilitator guide, on the topic of comprehensive academic instruction.