Participant Info
Join Project ACRES
Special educators who participate in Project ACRES receive individualized, virtual coaching from an experienced special educator and have access to a dynamic, virtual community of practice.
Benefits of Professional Development
Virtual Coaching
You will have an individual virtual session approximately three times each month with your Project ACRES Coach. Your coach will offer resources to help you face your day-to-day challenges and understand your students’ most challenging behaviors. Together, you will work toward seeing more of the behaviors that will help your students be successful.
Community of Practice
Every other week, you will have the opportunity to meet with a group of other special educators who are also new to their jobs. Alongside a highly skilled facilitator, you will share your challenges, questions, and successes as you navigate your early years as a special educator.
Project ACRES was a research project funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) that is run by us (researchers) at UW–Madison’s School of Education. Stay tuned for future opportunities to participate.
The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R324A200038 to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.