Project Directors:

Mary Lynn Boscardin, Ph.D., Project Director

Matthew Militello , Ph.D., Co-Project Director

Contact Information:

173 Hills-South
School of Education
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-1101
umcec@educ.umass.edu

Special Education Leadership Preparation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Special Education Administration at a Crossroads: Training Special and General Education Administrators to Provide Educational Programming for All Students with Disabilities from Diverse Backgrounds

Project Goals & Objectives

1.0 Address and ameliorate of national, state, and local level shortages of qualified administrators of special education, especially in the area of evidence-based service delivery for students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds through recruitment and matriculation of highly qualified trainees.

2.0 Supply administrators and faculty to the field of special education administration with expertise in empirically-based service delivery systems for addressing the educational needs of students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds using financial assistance and incentives to recruit highly qualified trainees.

3.0 Establish a comprehensive training program that will produce highly qualified trainees with a focus on empirically-based service delivery systems for addressing the educational needs of students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds that is co-managed by the Special Education and Educational Administration Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

4.0 Implement a leadership training program that provides administrators and faculty of special education administration with leadership skills built on collaborative relationships between special and general education through comprehensive training and experience in teaching and research.

5.0 Provide outreach services to other preservice and inservice general and special education administrators, teachers, and support personnel in the area of evidence-based service delivery for students with disabilities with diverse needs at the national, state, and local levels supervised by project faculty.

6.0 Implement a system of monitoring and evaluation to determine trainee progress and stakeholder satisfaction with the training program.

7.0 Meet Personnel Preparation Performance Measures Required by OSEP

Crossroads Presentations:

Project Goals & Objectives

Access to Excellence

Student Development & Pupil Personnel Services,School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Produced and maintained by Mary Lynn Boscardin, Ph.D., mlbosco@educ.umass.edu.