Educator Shortages in Special Education Toolkit

This toolkit, developed by the CEEDAR Center and the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center), is designed to lead state and district teams through a collaborative process to develop a comprehensive approach for addressing special education teacher shortages. The toolkit helps teams identify and implement a combination of short- and long-term educator talent management strategies to create comprehensive shortage solutions that address local context and needs. The toolkit consists of four parts:

• A toolkit facilitation guide
• A special education shortages primer
• An Excel-based tool for analyzing special education teacher shortage data
• An interactive shortage strategy selection tool