ADAC partners with private school leaders to develop, provide, and maximize the impact of customized IDEA* services to meet the needs of eligible private school students.
ADAC offers:
- Customized solutions and services that are tailored to each school community’s specific IDEA needs
- Quality control that is school leader determined and directed
- Expert guidance & professional support for leaders and teachers alike
Partnering with ADAC is simple and straightforward:
The private school leader identifies qualified special education certified teacher(s), thereby ensuring optimal IDEA service delivery by those who know – and are known by – each school community.
ADAC, working with IDEA-funded personnel, provides
- Customized IDEA solutions & services
- Expert professional support & guidance, including assistance with preparing and submitting to public school districts required IDEA documentation
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Complete Program Benefits
Expert Guidance & Professional Support
- ADAC supplies program development guidance to school leaders.
- ADAC provides implementation support to IDEA-funded personnel.
- IDEA-funded personnel join ADAC’s IDEA professional learning community (PLC), which offers opportunities for further professional collaboration and growth.
Quality Control
School leaders identify qualified special education certified teachers, and ADAC does the rest. ADAC:
- contracts with local public-school districts
- on-boards special education teachers
- pays special education teachers salaries and benefits
- works with special education teachers to collect student progress data and/or submit to public school districts required documentation, etc.
Customized Solutions & Services
Direct student services
- Specialized direct instruction (literacy):
ADAC provides explicit, evidence-based, specialized instruction to students in reading and writing using differentiated teaching methods and programs, including but not limited to methodologies such as Orton-Gillingham and/or Wilson Reading System. These methods and programs focus on phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and writing development. Regular assessments guide instruction, ensuring each student makes measurable progress. - Specialized direct instruction (mathematics):
ADAC provides explicit, evidence-based, specialized instruction to students in mathematics using differentiated teaching methods and programs. These math interventions support students in developing conceptual understanding, problem-solving skills, and procedural fluency, addressing identified learning needs. - Specialized direct instruction (executive functioning):
ADAC provides to students explicit, evidence-based, specialized executive functioning instruction. “Executive functioning” refers to a set of cognitive processes and mental skills that help students plan, monitor, and successfully execute their learning goals. The “executive functions,” as they’re known, include attentional control, working memory, inhibition, and problem-solving. Empowering students with techniques and skills that enhance their executive functioning is the purpose of this service. - School counseling:
ADAC’s IDEA services may include school counseling to support students’ academic, personal, social, and emotional well-being. School counselors collaborate with students, teachers, and parents/guardians to foster positive and supportive learning environments.
Consultative services
- Individual Service Plan (ISP) review & goal setting – as applicable:
On behalf of local public school districts, ADAC conducts – in collaboration with school leaders and teachers – comprehensive reviews of students’ ISPs, as applicable. These reviews assist classroom teachers with implementing ISP accommodations. - Individual Education Program (IEP) review & goal setting – as applicable:
On behalf of local public school districts, ADAC conducts – in collaboration with school leaders and teachers – comprehensive reviews of students’ IEPs, as applicable. These reviews assist classroom teachers with implementing IEP accommodations and addressing IEP skill development. - Progress monitoring & data-driven decision making:
ADAC assists IDEA-funded special education teachers with utilizing – and selecting, if necessary – high-quality progress monitoring tools that align with students’ learning goals and service needs. In addition, ADAC regularly analyzes data to inform instruction, adjust intervention strategies, and ensure compliance with IDEA requirements. - Support in general education:
IDEA-funded special education teachers – supported by ADAC – provide targeted instructional coaching to general education teachers. This coaching enables classroom teachers to assist students who are eligible for special education and/or related services with successfully accessing the curriculum, thereby empowering these students to succeed alongside their peers.
*The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that requires public school districts to provide to eligible private school students IDEA-funded services based on available proportionate share funding. In each public school district, this funding is calculated according to the number of private school students attending the private school(s) therein who have been found eligible for special education and/or related services by said public school district. In the partnership referenced on this page, ADAC functions as an IDEA-funded third-party provider between private schools and local public school districts.
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