This project centers the High Leverage Practices in Inclusive Classrooms, which outline four aspects of practice that address the most critical practices that every K-12 teacher should master and be able to demonstrate:
Collaboration
Data-Driven Planning
Instruction in Behavior and Academics
Intensify and Intervene as Needed
The 22 High Leverage Practices (HLPs) have been shown to improve student outcomes when successfully implemented (CEC, 2024).
Domain 1: Collaboration
HLP Pillars:
HLP 1: Collaborate with professionals to increase student success.
HLP 3: Collaborate with families to support student learning and secure needed services.
Embedded HLPs:
HLP 2: Organize and facilitate effective meetings with professionals and families.
Domain 2: Data-Driven Planning
HLP Pillars:
HLP 6: Use student assessment data, analyze instructional practices, and make necessary adjustments that improve student outcomes.
Embedded HLPs:
HLP 4: Use multiple sources of information to develop a comprehensive understanding of a student’s strengths and needs.
HLP 5: Interpret and communicate assessment information with stakeholders to collaboratively design and implement educational programs.
HLP 11: Identify and prioritize long- and short-term learning goals.
HLP 12: Systematically design instruction toward a specific learning goal.
Domain 3: Instruction in Behavior and Academics
HLP Pillars:
HLP 7: Establish a consistent, organized, and respectful learning environment.
HLP 16: Use explicit instruction.
Embedded HLPs:
What to teach:
HLP 9: Teach social behaviors.
HLP 14: Teach cognitive and metacognitive strategies to support learning and independence.
HLP 21: Teach students to maintain and generalize new learning across time and settings.
How to teach:
HLP 13: Adapt curriculum tasks and materials for specific learning goals.
HLP 15: Provide scaffolded supports.
HLP 17: Use flexible grouping.
HLP 18: Use strategies to promote active student engagement.
HLP 19: Use assistive and instructional technologies.
HLP 8/22: Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students’ learning (22) and behavior (8).
Domain 4: Intensify and Intervene as Needed
HLP Pillars:
HLP 20: Provide intensive instruction for academics and behavior.
Embedded HLPs:
HLP 10: Conduct functional behavioral assessments to develop individual student behavior support plans.