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The Special Education Collaborative is an innovative partnership between the Department of Early and Special Education, school districts across the state, and Lee Pesky Learning Center. The Collaborative appeared in a November 9, 2015 NPR story as a featured solution to the national special education teacher shortage.
The primary intent of the program is to provide a flexible, high quality program and cultivate the specialized knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are needed for long-term success. Teacher candidates in the one-year, online program earn both a Master in Teaching degree alongside a certification in Special Education, and work with committed faculty in the Department of Early and Special Education to develop high-quality skills, knowledge and dispositions to ensure success.
This is the second time the Collaborative has appeared in recent news. The program was featured earlier this fall in an Idaho Statesman story about the local special education teacher shortage.