Concurrent Sessions of The 2025 CASE Conference—where ideas spark action, innovation meets experience, and leadership takes center stage. These sessions offer attendees the opportunity to dive deep into topics that matter most to today’s special education leaders, from legal updates and instructional best practices to mental health supports, inclusive programming for students with disabilities, and systems-level change. Whether you're looking to strengthen your strategic planning, enhance student outcomes, or build stronger teams, you’ll find thought-provoking content led by expert practitioners and dynamic presenters. Choose the sessions that align with your goals, engage with your peers, and leave inspired to lead with clarity, confidence, and compassion. 

Advancing Equity for Students with Disabilities * Conflict Resolution: Resolving Challenges * Early Childhood: Building Strong Foundations * Educational Leadership: Leading with Purpose * Exploring Hot Topics: Trends and Emerging Issues * Forging Partnerships: Collaborative Leadership * Human Resources: Empowering Teams * Innovating for Success: Cutting Edge Practices * Instructional Excellence: Achieving Success * Legal Issues: Navigating Special Education * Staff Wellness: Fostering Resilience * Student Wellness: Prioritizing Balance for Success * Transition from School to Work

• 11 Million Days: Rethinking Suspensions and Expulsions to Build Supportive Environments for All Students
• Children of Incarcerated Parents: Generational Incarceration Prevention
• Creating Trauma Informed Environments for Students on the Spectrum
• High School Career and Technical Education Admissions Best Practices
• How to Utilize Universal Design for Learning to Advance the Learning of All Students
• Lessons Learned on Rightful Presence from Positive School Environment Leaders Who Foster Belonging for Student with Disabilities
• Reframing IDEA: Strength-Based & Neurodiversity-Affirming Approaches to Eligibility
• Related Service Caseload Cure: Prioritizing Educationally Relevant Services
• Relevant and Practical Accommodations: The Pathway to Access General Education Curriculum for All Learners
• Standards-Aligned Instruction for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
• Sum Thing is Up
• Supporting Twice-Exceptional Learners in Special Education: Creating a Comprehensive 2E Manual
• Turning the Page on Dyslexia: Effective Instructional Strategies for Lasting Change
• Tuscaloosa Whole Child: A Roadmap for Sustainable School and Community Transformation

• Handling Parent Disputes & Attorney Involvement: Strategies for New Special Education Administrators
• In the Trenches of Conflict in Special Education? Join Our Boot Camp for Mitigating Conflict
• Keep Your Cool When the Heat is On: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Adults
• Renewing Trust/Repairing Harm: Cultivating Restorative Justice Practices in a K-12 Nonpublic School
• Surviving the Toughest Parent: A Case Study in Conflict and Self-Care for Directors

• Effects of Early Childhood Access on Developmental Skills of Typically Developing Children
• Science of Reading in Practice: Interactive Tech and Multi-sensory Strategies to Teach Phonics
• Tackling Challenging Behavior: Coaching the Coaches

• 50 Years in the Making: A Local Solution to Teacher Retention and Improved Teacher Skill Development
• Adaptive Leadership: Engaging With Enduring Conflict
• Audit to Action: Transforming SpEd Programs Through Strategic Leadership & PD (Professional Development)
• Beyond the Hustle: Mastering High-Impact Leadership and Time Renewal
• Building a Foundation for Growth: Implementing Effective Strategies in CCSD1 (School District)
• Building Strong Coteaching Teams: Supports and Strategies
• Creating Sustainable Systems that Improve Student Outcomes
• Differentiated Teacher Coaching
• Educational Leadership within a Generational Divide: School Culture and Supervision of Educators
• Enhancing Data-Based Decision Making: How Oklahoma State Leaders Are Transforming MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports)
• How a Program Evaluation Can Be a Catalyst for Change
  
• How Can I Help You? Leadership Lessons from the Service Industry
• I'm a New Special Education Administrator. Now What?
• Incorporating Collaboration & Engagement into Special Education Meetings
• Navigating Special Education in a General Education World: Ensuring Success for All Students
• Putting Civility Into Practice: Tools for Respectful and Impactful Leadership
• Ready-to-Use Training Approaches for Supervisors of Teacher and Paraeducator Teams
• Re-Humanizing Compliance: IDEA and the Hope for Change
• Rethinking Impactful IEPs: Innovative Research, Rubrics, and Results
• Six Principles for Building Positive School Environments for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Action for K-12 Leaders
• Special Delivery: Insights and Communication (SDIC)
• Tech, Tools, and Teamwork: Leading Districts to Best Practices Implementing LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)
• The State of the Special Education Profession: General and Special Education Leaders Perspectives
• Transform Educational Leadership with the Transforming Special Education Leadership (TSEL) Framework
• Using Data to Address Change: Root Cause Analysis Data Preparation

• A Decade of Discovery: Insights from a Decade of District Special Education System Reviews
• Beyond the Messy Backpack: Addressing Executive Functioning with Your School Team
• Building a Continuum of Function-Based Behavior Supports: Fixing the Hourglass MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) Problem
• Direct Hiring of BCBAs (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) and RBTs (Registered Behavior Technician): Strategies for Building In-House Behavioral Teams in Districts
• Expanding the Continuum of Support for Students with Complex Learning Profiles
• From Mindset to Measures: Ensuring Strong Behavior Systems for Student Success
• I'm a Teacher, NOT a Therapist! Decrease Overwhelm and Empower Teachers of Students with Trauma Impacts
• Least Restrictive Environment: Supporting the Continuum of Services
• Reimagining Special Ed: A Sustainable District Model for Balancing Student Needs and Rising Costs
• Separating Fact from Fiction in Science of Reading and Specific Learning Disabilities
• Targeted Support for Beginning Special Education Teachers and Strategies for Retention
• The Barriers to the Implementation of Counseling as a Related Service
• Through the Lens of Special Education: Ways to Support Special Educators
• Using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to Enhance Your IEP Process: 1st Draft Impact Statement, PLAAFPs, & Smart Goals
• Utilizing Behavior Analyst in a Consultative Role in Schools to Provide Evidence-Based Practices

• A Case Study in Special Education Transportation: Developing a Collaborative Partnership
• A Powerful Partnership: When District and School Leaders Work Together to Implement IDEA
• Beyond Compliance: Bridging the Divide Between Families and Schools to Support Special Education
• Breaking Down the Silos: Leadership That Promotes Collective Responsibility and Inclusion
• Café Conversations: Communication Strategies and Meaningful Parent Participation
• From Classroom to Career: Inspiring Special Education Teachers Through School-University Partnerships
• From Connection to Contribution: Building Professional Networks and Paying It Forward
• High Quality IDEA Data: The Foundation to Effective Decisions
• Improving the Classroom Environment for Students with Disabilities: Access and Opportunity to the General Education Curriculum
• LEAs: A Grassroots Approach to Sharing Special Education Leadership and Management
• Local Data Teams: Where High-Quality IDEA Data Begins!
• Military Families: Maneuvering Special Education Services
• No Collaboration without Communication: Developing Family-Friendly Communication Practices
• Resilient Leadership: Building Unwavering Advocacy for Special Education Success
• There's No Co-Teaching without Co-Planning: Supporting Collaboration in Co-Teaching Partnerships
• Wrap-Around Supports for Students with Diverse Behavioral Needs

• "I Won't Be In Today...or Ever..."
• Balancing Support & Independence: Guiding IEP Teams in Para Decision-Making and Fading Plans
• Better Together: Multidisciplinary Teams for FBAs/BIPs for Students with Extensive Behavior Needs
• Creating Workplace Engagement: Preventing Disgruntled Worker Syndrome in Special Education
• Empowering Special Education Teams: Building Capacity, Grit, and Resilience
• Enhancing Paraprofessional Success: A Data-Driven Approach to Induction and Retention
• Straight Outta College: Everything You Need to Know From an Early Career Teacher
• Strategic Leadership & AI (Artificial Intelligence): Uniting Technology, Special Services, and Professional Growth
• Transforming Collaborative Practices in IEP Teams Through Impactful Communication Strategies

• AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IDEA: A Powerful Partnership for the Future of Special Education
• Apples to Oranges: Advancing the Use of Special Education Data for IDEA Compliance and Student Outcomes
• Beyond Tradition: Creative Solutions for Nurturing Special Education Talent
• Breaking Barriers: The Flexible Instructional Program as a Pathway for Success Supports
• Building District Capacity: Innovative Strategies for Comprehensive Student Supports
• Current Trends in Legal Issues in Special Education: Ensuring Assistive Technology Access
• Digital Math for Learners Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision: The Case for Collaboration
• ELEVATE: Empowering Learners for Effective Educational Transitions and Academic Excellence
• Empowering Administrators, Teachers & EPPs with Tools for Continuous Growth in Educator Pedagogy
• Empowering Virtual Special Education: Creative Strategies for Serving Students and Supporting Staff
• From Chaos to Class Act: Flipping the Script on Day Treatment Classrooms
• From Paperwork to Purpose: AI (Artificial Intelligence) Secrets that Give Special Education Leaders Their Time Back!
• In a Hunger Games Environment, Creating an Evaluations Ecosystem by Leveraging Teletherapy
• Inclusion in Action: Creating Meaningful Experiences for Students with Special Needs
• Innovative Partnerships Between Districts and Charter Schools for Special Education
• Intensive Support Program: A strategic Approach to Structuring Self-Contained Classrooms
• Leadership Moves to Reduce the Reliance on 1:1 Paraeducators
• MAASE Offers Comprehensive Training Programs: "Developing Inclusive Leaders" & "Empowering Paraeducators for Student Success"
• Making Teletherapy Work: Essential Strategies for Implementation
• Strengthening General Educators' Collaboration, Involvement and Leadership in the IEP Process
• Teaching Staff to Fish: Our Journey with SEB (Social, Emotional, Behavior) Capacity Building
• The Impact of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Special Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Leadership
• Thinking Outside of the Box: Steps to Reduce Restraint, Eliminate Seclusion, and Foster Successful LRE
• Transforming Special Education with Artificial Intelligence: Practical Solutions for Teachers
• Turning Mandates into Change: using FABI to Meet OSEP FBA Guidance 

• An Administrators Guide to Mathematics MTSS and Evidence-Based Instruction
• Designing and Delivering Effective Specially Designed Instruction with Data-Based Individualization
• Developing IEPs that Work! Implementing Practical Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes
• Empower and Equip: Cultivating Self-Directed Learning Through Executive Function
• Engaging Secondary Students in Dyslexia Intervention: Lessons Learned
• First Line of Defense: Navigating Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for Special Education Leaders
• Generalizing Reading Interventions for Older Struggling Readers to Regular Education Settings
• Multi-Level Instruction to Meet the Needs of All Learners in the General Education Classroom
• Multisensory Instruction + AI (Artificial Intelligence): One District's Success Story
• Navigating Specially Designed Instruction: Ensuring Success for Every Student
• Pathway to Participation: Empowering Educators to Integrate Inquiry-Based Learning for All Learners
• Rewiring Engagement: Shift Happens when Attention Wanders
• Special Education Services in a Virtual Setting: Innovative Approaches for Effective Support
• The Hidden Links Between Classroom Behaviors and Processing Challenges in Special Education Referrals 
• The Oklahoma School-Based Therapists Network: Supporting Related Service Providers
•  Use of UFLI (University of Florida Literacy Institute) Foundations to Teach Foundational Reading Skills with Students with Disabilities 

• Connecting the Dots for Federal, State, and LEA Legislation to Ensure Special Education Compliance
• Creating Legally Defensible Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans
• FBAs and BIPs: Coaching Models to Support Educator Implementation
• Implementing IDEA's Requirements for Parentally-Placed Private School Children with Disabilities
• Navigating Due Process & State Complaints: What to Do When Your District is Challenged
• No, Seriously, You Can Trust Me
• Section 504 and the IDEA: The Supreme Court Speaks
• What Good LEA Representatives at IEP Meetings Need to Know and Do as the IEP Meeting's Process Leader 

• Beyond Burnout: Sustainable Wellness Strategies for Special Education Leaders
• Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace: Supporting the Well-Being of Special Educators
• From Exhausted to Empowered: Building Educator Resilience and Well-Being
• Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in Your Special Education Role
• Restorative Practice--Who You ARE, Not What You DO!
• Reframing Behavior: Enhancing Staff Wellness and Resilience through Neuroscience
• Reignite, Restore, Retain: Helping Educators Overcome the Five Fires of Distress
• Taking Care of the Adults in the System

• Mood Meter - Be Proactive, Not Reactive
• PBISS the S.H.I.E.L.D. Way
• Round Table Discussion: Supporting Students Returning From Inpatient Mental Health Treatment
• Success for All and How We Get There
• The Human Connection Hub and Brain Health
• Trauma the Invisible Barrier
• WHAT'S YOUR STORY? Empowering Students to Shift From a Negative to a Positive Self-Narrative

• Action, Lights, and Learning: Empowering Specialized Learners for Tomorrow's World
• Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Students with Disabilities for the Future of Work
• From Possibility to Reality: Strengthening Secondary Transition with Customized Employment
• Kids Like Me Bookshelf: Using Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Real Life Role Models to Boost Self Determination
• One Stop Zarrow Secondary Transition Shop: Using the Zarrow Institute for Planning and Teaching
• Paraprofessional Staffing for Students Needs vs. Building Schedules
• Rural Pathways to Independence: Building Adult Student (18-22) Transition Programs
• Secondary Transition with Project SEARCH
• TAGG, You're It! Using the TAGG Assessment Suite for IDEA Compliant Transition Planning
• Transforming Disability into Workplace Capability
• Unique Considerations for Post High School Planning for Students with Blindness and Low Vision
• Unlocking Possibilities - The Transition Maine Youth Summit: Empowering Dreams, Building Futures