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Community-Based Instruction
While classroom instruction is essential for developing academic and functional skills, many students benefit from opportunities to practice these skills in real-world environments. Community-based instruction (CBI) is an instructional approach that allows students to learn and apply important life skills within natural community settings. Many skills that are taught in schools, such as money management, communication, problem-solving, and safety awareness, can be put into action when students practice them in the settings where they will actually use them.
Special Education Basics
Common Ground is sharing a series of basic and important special education topics on the rights, responsibilities, administrative processes, and legal remedies parents and students may encounter, and to which they are entitled.
Feature Articles & Resources
Feature articles • In-depth consideration of current special education topics and practices. • Experienced and authoritative writers. • Resources for parents, teachers, and professionals. • Fostering dialogue among special education stakeholders.
From the Courts & Capitols
Covering legal and legislative developments that shape special education in New Jersey and nationally. • Specific cases from administrative, state and federal courts. • Legislative and administrative policy developments at state and federal levels.
Information Parents & Educators Can Use
By and for parents, teachers and professionals. • Teaching and assessment strategies for specific learning and behavioral challenges • Peer-to-peer advice and experience sharing • Q&As and FAQs for use on the front line • Statistics and data for trend identification.