Laura L. This year the NRCP had the privilege to coordinate and host the 36th National Virtual NRCP Conference. This is the only National Conference fully dedicated to Paraeducators and those who support the work of paraeducators. We would like to say THANK YOU to our attendees (YOU), our presenters, the planning committee and support team! Everyone … Read more
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the success of children and youth with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides professional development, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice. CEC is known as … Read more
We are excited to announce that Paraeducator Behavior Modules have been developed and released! These modules are based on the training held in June 2021. Read more here about that training. These modules are open for registration and purchase, more information can be found here. We hope that you will all take advantage of this … Read more
In August 2022 we kicked off “Saturday Mornings with the NRCP,” a low-cost monthly webinar training opportunity. Since that time, we have held 4 of 12 webinars with great success. How do we measure the success of our webinars? Participants are asked to complete an evaluation form at the end of each webinar. Once submitted … Read more
Do you know an awesome paraeducator, related service provider, teacher aide, intervener, etc.? We would love to highlight their accomplishments in our Newsletters, website and social medias! To submit a Spotlight article please see the following parameters and send the Spotlight to us via email to laura.lema@usu.edu. Spotlight parameters: • An intro of who the … Read more
Achieving your school’s learning mission during these uncharted times requires a lot of things to go right. All too often, what frequently goes wrong is student behavior. Instructional teams report significant loss of learning due to students challenging behaviors. Increasingly, paraeducators are assisting teachers in supporting the behavior of individual students so they can learn. … Read more
The 2021-22 NRCP Leadership Meetings were held prior to each of the NRCP regional conferences and were open to National/State Paraeducator Leaders. Such leaders are people who are engaged in activities to promote paraeducator leadership at a variety of levels within their respective school districts, states, or countries. For example: State staff. State or regional … Read more
Free Online Professional Development with the IRIS Center You’ve probably got a lot on your mind right now. Maybe your school is open for face-to-face learning, maybe it’s operating virtually, or perhaps moving back and forth between the two. A few of your students have been acting out recently, and you’ve been asked to collect … Read more
In October of 2021, 225 participants from 16 states registered for our Western Regional Conference. The Central Regional Conference, held in December 2021, attracted 63 registrants from 10 states. Our NRCP Eastern Regional Conference had 134 participants from 20 states, including Bermuda. In total, 421 participants from 33 states across the nation registered for … Read more
Our third Regional conference was held January 12-13th. There were over 130 participants registered from over 20 states including Bermuda, California and Kentucky. This conference was held in the Eastern time zone in the evening hours. Here is some of the amazing feedback we received when participants were asked “what they enjoyed most” about day … Read more