Professional Development & Training

Training from people who do the work every day.

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Knowledge Road trains educators and school staff on the practical side of special education: reading an IEP, adapting instruction, supporting behavior, and documenting services. The trainers are practitioners who deliver these services every week, so sessions are based on classroom practice rather than theory.

Our trainers deliver the services they teach.

Knowledge Road's providers work under special-education mandates across New York City every week. The training draws on that work: documentation habits that hold up at review time, classroom strategies that work with students, and the coordination that keeps a student's services on track. Staff learn from people who do this work.

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Sessions built around the school's own students and routines

We scope every program to the staff attending and the challenges they face, and we keep the format practical: examples, practice, and tools staff can use the next day.

Understanding IEPs, IESPs, and what a mandate requires: Staff practice reading a student's plan and learn what the mandate written into it asks the school to deliver and to document.
Adapting instruction for students with disabilities: Trainers work through examples drawn from the students your staff teach, showing how a lesson can be adjusted for a student with a disability.
Behavior support strategies for the classroom: Practitioners teach the classroom approaches they use with their own students, through examples, practice, and discussion.
Session documentation and progress-reporting habits: This session covers how to record each service session and report on progress so that the records hold up at review time.
Working with related-service providers and families: The focus is the coordination that keeps a student's services on track, including how teachers, related-service staff, and families share information.
Onboarding for new special-education staff: New hires get a practical introduction to plans, mandates, documentation, and classroom routines, scoped to your school and the students they will teach.

Who it’s for

Teachers & paraprofessionals
School leaders
Related-service teams
Public, charter & nonpublic schools

Scope, build, train, follow up

Pick any part of the sentence to see the detail.

First, scope the need. Then build it for your school. Next, train in practice. Finally, follow up.

We talk with school leaders and staff about where support for students with disabilities is breaking down, and build the program around that.

Common questions

Who is the training for?

Teachers, paraprofessionals, school leaders, and related-service staff who support students with disabilities, in public, charter, private, and parochial schools.

Who leads the sessions?

Experienced special-education practitioners from our own network: people who deliver instruction and related services under IEP and IESP mandates, so the content comes from current practice.

Can the training be tailored to our school?

Yes. Every program is scoped with school leaders first, so it reflects your staff, your students, and the specific challenges you want to address.

What topics can you cover?

Common requests include understanding IEPs and IESPs, adapting instruction, classroom behavior support, session documentation, and working with families and related-service providers. If you need something else in special education, ask, and we will tell you whether it fits our expertise.

How do we get started?

Tell us who the training is for and what you want to change. Our coordination team responds within 24 hours, typically within 4–6 hours.

Still have a question? Call (718) 540-8268, or see the education services overview.

If staff are supporting students with IEPs without enough training

My general-ed teachers are given IEPs but were never taught how to read them.: That is common, and it matters: IDEA rules require that every teacher responsible for carrying out an IEP can access it and knows their specific part in it. Our sessions cover reading an IEP or IESP and what a mandate requires, led by practitioners who deliver those services every week.
We have run one-off PD days before and nothing changed in classrooms.: Research reviewed by the Learning Policy Institute points to training that is sustained, includes active practice, and gives teachers time to try strategies. We scope each program with school leaders around your students and routines, then check in afterward on what staff are still using. Scoping starts with a call.
New hires and paras are covering mandates, and our session notes are thin.: Thin records are a citywide problem. A recent NYC Comptroller audit found no record of some mandated therapy services, meaning they were either not delivered or never written down. Our training covers session documentation, progress reporting and onboarding for new special-education staff.

Have this ready when you call

Who the training is for and roughly how many staff
The topics or problems you most want addressed
PD dates or time blocks already on your calendar
Whether staff need the hours to count toward CTLE
Funding source or budget line

You can call without all of these. We will work out the rest with you.

Call (718) 540-8268 Or pick a time for us to call you

Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Training for staff who support students with IEPs.

Tell us who the training is for and what you want to change. We respond within 24 hours, typically within 4–6 hours.

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