News & Updates

A checklist to guide educators through planning and conducting child-centered transition conversations when students move to new classrooms or programs. It provides a structured framework for gathering developmental information, facilitating collaborative discussions with families and receiving teachers, and ensuring continuity of support strategies.

A timeline guide for educators conducting DRDP assessments throughout the school year. It outlines five phases of the assessment process, helping assessors stay organized by specifying when to gather observations, collaborate with families and staff, submit data, and use results to support children's learning and development.

A collaborative tool for educators to design developmentally appropriate instruction, teaching strategies, and activities based on each child's current DRDP assessment levels. It helps teachers track children's progress, identify strengths and areas for growth, and plan targeted interventions and next steps to support individual learning needs.

A tool to gather parent and family input for the DRDP assessment. It provides families with concrete examples of developmental milestones and behaviors across five key domains, allowing them to share observations about their child's growth and development in familiar home settings, which assessors can then use to create a more complete and accurate picture of the child's abilities.

Join us this fall for live, online professional learning focused on authentic use of the DRDP (2025). Through interactive webinars, participants will explore observation and documentation, evidence-based rating practices, and key updates to the DRDP. Each session blends practical guidance, reflection, and collaborative learning to support meaningful assessment practices for young children with IFSPs and IEPs.

Outlines the responsibilities of SELPA staff and special education administrators for the DRDP.

A document illustrating how the Domains and Measures of the DRDP used in early childhood special education correspond to the three OSEP outcomes.

Follow the path of DRDP data from teachers’ assessments, to planning instruction and federal reporting with this graphic and summaries of the systems for producing reports.