Database of Federally Funded Technical Assistance and Research Centers

PROGRESS Center

PROGRESS Center (which stands for Promoting Rigorous Outcomes and Growth by Redesigning Educational Services for Students With Disabilities Center) provides information, resources, tools, and technical assistance services to support local educators and leaders (kindergarten through transition age) in developing and implementing high-quality educational programs that ensure students with disabilities have access to free appropriate public education (FAPE) which allows them to make progress and meet challenging goals, consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (2017).

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Director(s): Tessie Rose Bailey, Center Director, Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds, Principal Investigator

Website: https://promotingprogress.org/

Specialty Area

English Language Learners
Evidence Based Practices & Scaling Up
Family Engagement
High-Quality Educational Programming
Intensive Supports
Measuring Student Growth
Multi-tiered Systems of Support
Response to Intervention
Special Education

Primary Audience

Administrators
School Districts
Schools
State Education Agencies
Teachers

Services

Assessment Tools
Coaching
Consulting
Content Expertise
Convening Stakeholders
Facilitation

Regions/States

National

All States

Level of Support

Tiered

Additional Information

Private and charter school associations and entities

Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest

Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (REL Southwest) provides research, technical support, and dissemination activities to State Education Agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in our region to improve the use of data and research evidence to inform practice and policy decisions.

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Director(s): Michael Vaden-Kiernan, Director, Lynn Mellor, Deputy Director

Website: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southwest/default.aspx