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HLPs for Students with Disabilities
High-Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities is available for download at no cost by clicking below.
High Leverage Practices Chat GPT
Meet the HLP GPT – your AI partner for embedding High-Leverage Practices in everyday teaching! From collaboration to instruction, it gives practical tips to support ALL learners.
High-Leverage Practices 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.
HLP Refresh Overview
In this lecture, Dr. Michael Kennedy from U.Va discusses the reasons why leaders from CEC, CEEDAR, and OSEP made the decision to update and refresh the 2015 HLPs in Special Education to become the 2024 HLPs for Students with Disabilities. These slides are intended to be introductory, and supplement the newly published text which is available from CEEDAR or CEC.
High-Leverage Practices Videos
The High-Leverage Practices (HLPs) video series is a free resource that is easy to incorporate into a wide range of professional learning formats. Use these concrete examples to anchor and reinforce both knowledge development and application.
HLPs Self-Assessment Tools
These High-Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities Self-Assessment Tools are designed to help preservice and in-service teachers reflect on and assess how well they are implementing high-leverage practices (HLPs) for students with disabilities. Teachers and teacher candidates can self-assess on all 22 HLPs or target only specific HLPs.
Supplemental Resources
Documents & Files
High-Leverage Practices Leadership Guides
These guides are intended for school leaders (Administrators, Teacher Coaches, Mentors, etc.) to support their teams in effectively implementing the High Leverage Practices in the classroom. The guides include:
- Tips for school leaders to support teachers
- Questions to prompt discussion, self-reflection and observer feedback
- Observable behaviors for teachers implementing the HLPs
- References and additional resources on each HLP
High-Leverage Practices Faculty Guides
These guides are intended to support educator preparation faculty in effectively training teacher candidates on implementing the High Leverage Practices in classroom settings. The guides include:
- Tips for educator preparation faculty to support teacher candidates.
- Questions to prompt discussion, self-reflection, and observer feedback
- Observable behaviors for teachers implementing the HLPs.
- References and additional resources on each HLP.
Practice-Based Learning Opportunities
Teachers can learn to use high-leverage practices (HLPs) when they have effective opportunities to practice using the HLPs in thoughtful ways. To support teacher educators’ use of HLPs, the CEEDAR Center, in collaboration with Educator Preparation Program faculty across the country, has collected a set of effective practice opportunities that we refer to as practice-based learning opportunities or PLOs.
High-Leverage Practices and Evidence-Based Practices: A Promising Pair
High-leverage practices (HLPs) and evidence-based practices (EBPs) when used together can become powerful tools for improving student outcomes. This brief is designed to show the promise of these practices in advancing educator preparation and practice and, subsequently, outcomes for students with disabilities and those who struggle.
High-Leverage Practices Crosswalk
This document shows points of alignment between the following three important documents: High-Leverage Practices, High-Leverage Practices in Special Education, and Promoting Principal Leadership for the Success of Students With Disabilities.
High-Leverage Practices Flyer List
This flyer gives a basic definition of what high-leverage practices are and the criteria that was used in determining which would be included as High-Leverage Practices for Special Education.













