Advocate for Education: Attend the Special Education Legislative Summit
July 13-16, 2025
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CEC 2026 Call for Reviewers and Proposals Now Open
Upcoming Events and Webinars
We're back! Each quarterly webinar with Dr. Mitchell Yell delivers exactly what special teachers and administrators need to know to develop educationally meaningful and legally defensible IEPs...
The Fawcett Center, Ohio State University
2400 Olentangy River Rd
Columbus, OH 43210
United States
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June 19, 2025 - June 21, 2025 |
Hilton UF Conference Center 1714 SW 34th St, Gainesville, FL 32607 |
Details | Add to Calendar 2025-06-19 00:00:00 2025-06-21 00:00:00 FCEC Conference https://exceptionalchildren.org/events/fcec-conference Hilton UF Conference Center 1714 SW 34th St Gainesville, FL 32607 United States Council for Exceptional Children fcecconference@gmail.com America/New_York public |
1714 SW 34th St,
Gainesville, FL 32607
The Westin Alexandria
400 Courthouse Square
Alexandria, VA 22314
United States
Held in Washington, D.C, the Special Education Legislative Summit (SELS) is an opportunity for educators from across the country to make a difference by advocating for change with Members of Congress...

Special Education TODAY
Weekly updates on the Council for Exceptional Children and reflections on special education news.
CEC Partner Solutions Directory
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)'s Partner Solutions Directory is an online resource for special education products, services, and programming support! Search for a topic and quickly receive a list of partners who provide products, services, or programming supporting your work and career.
More than 160 years of life-changing innovations. Since 1858, The American Printing House for the Blind has operated in Louisville, Kentucky as the world’s largest nonprofit organization, empowering people who are blind or visually impaired by providing accessible and innovative products, materials, and services for lifelong success. Our vision is for an accessible world, with opportunity for everyone.
- Blindness/Deafblindness
- Visual Impairments
- Universal Design for Learning
Brolly is a software that digitizes special education service tracking and progress monitoring, offering a streamlined, efficient, and accurate approach to IEP management and compliance.
- Assessment
- Accountability Systems
- Classroom Management
- Compliance and Ethics
- IDEA
- Professional Collaboration
- Specially Designed Instruction
- Teacher Effectiveness
- Progress Monitoring
This database of resources is for CEC members to find expert-reviewed resources created by peers that can be used in the classroom. Search for resources supporting various learners in multiple types of formats.
- Co-Teaching
- Classroom Management
- Instructional Planning
- Literacy Instruction
- PD Program
- Professional Collaboration
CEC’s online transition curriculum, Life Centered Education (LCE) is your all-in-one transition curriculum including lesson plans and assessments to promote independence. Lesson plans accessible by teachers; worksheets and assessments available to students via secure portal.
- Transition Age (Ages 18-22+)
- Transition to Adulthood
- PD Program
- Specially Designed Instruction