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Children with disabilities and their families face significant barriers to accessing equitable and inclusive high-quality early childhood programs.
The Building Equitable Supports for Children with Disabilities (BESCD) initiative, administered by CES, is designed to help school districts by creating a professional community that centers equitable support as a key to successful inclusion in their early childhood programs.
To read more about the research behind BESCD, click here.
There are 30 participating individual and regional school district teams. Each team is comprised of 3 to 5 members, including Special Education Directors, Early Childhood Coordinators, Teachers, Early Care and Education Directors, Head Start Disabilities/Education Coordinators, Family Services Coordinators, CPPI Coordinators, Early Intervention Directors and Community Partners.
Teams will work to improve and enrich their inclusive early childhood programming through:
The BESCD initiative recognizes the inequities that often exist in special education programs. Participating teams will develop relationships, knowledge and skills, designed to support school districts in addressing these inequities.
Teams will:
For more information:
Emily Koester, BESCD Project Coordinator, ekoester@collaborative.org.
This FREE initiative is funded by the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and is administered by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES).
If you have questions or want to learn more about our programs, please get in touch.
Collaborative for Educational Services
97 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060
413.586.4900
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